As they near the end of two years of funding for CUMIN (the Contemporary Urban Music for Inclusion Network), project leads Pete Dale (University of York) and Pamela Burnard (University of Cambridge) reflect on what has been achieved and what knowledges have arisen, been shared, and generated throughout the project. Their findings platform the work of a range of community music organisations and artists, and call for contemporary music making to be better understood.
Are you overwhelmed and not sure where to begin in order to find funding for young musicians? AYM have collated a list of national and local opportunities to get you started.
Soundabout uses music to create musical communities without barriers, ensuring that people with complex and additional needs have a voice and a way to be heard. These training videos explore Soundabout techniques and practice.
Little Soundabout and Soundabout Life are a collection of free online musical resources for children and young adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their families, carers, and professionals.
Key findings from pioneering an inclusive national youth orchestra.
Practical tools from Sound Connections to help practitioners to explore youth voice engagement within their practice.
Trauma-informed approaches have become increasingly cited in policy and adopted in practice as a means for reducing the negative impact of trauma experiences and supporting mental and physical health outcomes. They build on evidence developed over several decades. The UK government has now produced a working defenition of trauma-informed practice.
An introduction to Trinity College’s new Awards and Certificates in Musical Development for people with learning difficulties.
Face-to-face or online training and a series of online film resources from a variety of real life group music activities which demonstrate the key facets of musical potential as identified by primary and secondary class teachers, peripatetics, community musicians, music services and other arts organisations.
This ground-breaking book by Geoffrey Baker examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996.
