John Gibbons

And we think that's really good because we don't know that men always like to come together in community.

So that's really cool.

And then we have other programs, you know, for ESOL and artistic programs in terms of the arts proper, but also working with clothing and arts and crafts and stuff like that.

But the work I do is with gospel music because we are an arts venue and we serve underrepresented communities as well as the community at large.

And gospel as an underrepresented art form is really an uplifting one and a fulfilling one.

And so we go into schools.

We've probably gone into about 15 schools in Liverpool and the Liverpool City region so far.

And we've run these...

courses and they love it the six-week courses about just the history of gospel music and getting them to sing some songs and the schools are they just they call us back again and again and um we we're going to come together on thursday for a gospel schools day we've got 250 plus kids and teachers

Oh, amazing.

Kids, yeah, just secondary school children.

Wow.

Lots of boys as well.

And the boys tend to sing the loudest, which I love.

Because in different parts of the country, that's not the case.

But here, everyone goes for it.

Really loud, just enjoying the genre and just being uplifted by the music, quite literally.

Exactly that.

And I think you came to one of our shows and enjoyed it at Christmas.

I had a ball.