Inspire through Experience

The purpose behind Song vir Nonna

Develop Young Minds

Empowering orphans and children with special needs to express themselves with words intended to be sung.

Change the future of a child

Your Contributios make a reality of our vision.

The benefits of songwriting:

Health Benefits

  • Stress relief
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Improved lung function
  • Improved liver function
  • Improved short-term memory
  • Better concentration
  • Improved sport performance
  • Improve sleep quality
  • Brain exercise
  • Improved calmness

Emotional Benefits

  • Improved mood / self-esteem / confidence
  • Less depressive / anxiety symptoms before demanding events
  • Fewer post-traumatic intrusions
  • Provides a supportive outlet for expressions of grief and processing loss, navigating complex emotions
  • Emotional pain distraction
  • Fewer avoidance symptoms
  • Self-expression and self-understanding
  • Feel more in control of your life
  • Helps process emotions with the permission to feel
  • Helps tell your story making one happier
  • Joy of creating something new
  • Emotional egress

Social Benefits

  • Higher grade point average for students
  • Altered social and linguistic behaviour
  • Reveals the humanity in people
  • Group cohesiveness
  • Teamwork improvement
  • Innovative problem-solving skills
  • Non-verbal outlet through music
  • Not only the artistic outcome but the creative process and insight that songwriting brings

"The more it seems like a journal entry the better. The more it seems like an open letter the better."

Taylor Swift

"Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to."

Brittany Howard

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."

Yip Harburg

"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."

Bryan Adams

"All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper."

Beth Nielsen Chapman

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

Sabaa Tahir

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; they only change yours.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

Paulo Coelho

“The unexpressed emotions will never heal.”

Sigmund Freud

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

"The more it seems like a journal entry the better. The more it seems like an open letter the better."

Taylor Swift

"Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to."

Brittany Howard

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."

Yip Harburg

"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."

Bryan Adams

"All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper."

Beth Nielsen Chapman

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

Sabaa Tahir

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; they only change yours.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

Paulo Coelho

“The unexpressed emotions will never heal.”

Sigmund Freud

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

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  • 08:00 - 17:00
  • Saturday
  • 08:00 - 12:00
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