My week with Drake Music brought about a number of ‘firsts’ for me: working with primary-aged children; working alongside disabled people; planning and leading design-based workshops.
Year 10 students at Great Oaks SEN School in Southampton use iPads to great effect in this rehearsal performance. Jonathan Westrup talks to their inspirational music teacher Kellyjo Peters. MORE […]
I’ve been writing stageplays for over 10 years and have recently ventured into the “devised play”, so I was intrigued and excited to be working on this project. I’m also doing my MA in Playwriting at the momment, so it would be a great experience that I could take into that course as well. So it was great to have a commission that helps to validate my role as a writer and a director.
Between November 2013 and February 2014, Drake Music – Connect & Collaborate London provided mentoring and technical support for Carlo Keshishian and Phil Baird, artists/musicians from Network Arts Lewisham to facilitate their Music and Animation Project.
As a part of our ‘DM amplifying and sharing experiment’ I asked our social media associate Martin Couzins to help me develop a monthly blog post looking at what I, as CEO of Drake Music, have been doing.
Throughout my life I have used a range of assistive and/or mainstream technology to break down the disabling barriers I experience.
I wish to thank all those involved in contributing to a very interesting and entertaining afternoon at the BFI Southbank on Monday 10th March.
Here is a ‘Storify’ blog about the Drake Music Teachmeet discussing good practice in SEN/D Music Education at the Music Expo 2014. It includes video footage of some of the […]
Drake Music has been asking the question “what does good music education look like for SEN/Disabled children?”
We are just over half way through our sharing and amplifying experiment, which you can read about here. And you can see what we shared in January here.