Juwon has worked in a variety of settings as a composer/workshop leader, helping groups of young people, people with disabilities and offenders within the criminal justice system to create process based compositions.
These include

Artist residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green

In 2002, the Museum hosted 5 projects that were led by Juwon Ogungbe. These include

1. Fairground Mystery (with The Tower Project – the music is through composed)
2. A Gateway to the World (a collaboration with film maker James Swinson and the Museum’s staff – the music is through composed)
3. A Date with Destiny (commemorating The Queen’s Golden Jubilee with students from Highgate Wood School)
4. Malcolm X in Mecca (a through composed choral piece performed by children of Gayhurst Primary School, Hackney, Alison Blunt (violin) and Juwon Ogungbe (baritone), supported by Hackney Music Service)
5. Black Peter Clears His Name (a music theatre piece created and performed with students of Lister Community School, Plaistow)

Please see the following 7 Quick time movies of highlights from the residency.

If Walthamstow Market Could Sing (2004, with Lontano)

This project involved over 150 performers from several schools in Waltham Forest, the Samba band of Cardboard Citizens – theatre company for the homeless, Ekhoes – a local women’s singing group, Nigerian Talking Drummers and a school steel band from Canning Town.
These performers worked with musicians from Lontano – the contemporary music ensemble and Juwon Ogungbe on pieces that paid tribute to Walthamstow Market – arguably the most extensive street market in Europe. The concert programme was performed at the Assembly Room in the grounds of Waltham Forest Town Hall.

Initiation Songs (2005)

Commissioned by the Southbank Centre’s Education Department, with Lambeth Music Service, Juwon composed this song cycle which was presented as part of the Southbank Centre’s “Africa Remix” season in the Africa 05 Festival Programme.

First performed in Royal Festival Hall in March 2005, the piece was learnt and performed by up to 1000 Lambeth school children, some of whom performed at the launch of the first new children’s hospital to be built in London in 100 years – The Evelina Children’s Hospital.
Tango Masquerades (2006)

Teaming up with Lontano again, Juwon travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina twice to work with groups of young people from primary to tertiary education level on a project that paid tribute to the 19th century Afro-Argentines and others that provided the inspiration for Tango music and dance.

The British Council Argentina hosted the project and also set up a new connection between the young participants and Africa Vive, the leading Afro-Argentine cultural heritage organisation.

The end of process concert was an extremely moving event for all involved.

Unheard Voices (2009)

Working with Lontano yet again, Juwon led a process based composition project in Waltham Forest’s Higham Hill ward with up to 160 young performers. All the music was based on family memories, developed from an initial stimulus of family souvenirs.

The highly successful concert was performed yet again at The Assembly Hall in the grounds of Waltham Forest Town Hall.