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Painting pictures with music – UKDHM Guest Post
In our second Guest Post for UKDHM, musician Hannah Shelmerdine shares her experience of finding self-expression through music.
Category Archives: Disability issues
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Writing Disabled-ly – UKDHM Guest Post
Musician Ben Lunn responds to our provocation for UK Disability History Month and shares his thoughts on some of the challenges disabled composers face.
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UK Disability History Month 2018 – Music
Celebrate music by disabled artists, this year’s UKDHM wants to share the untold stories of musicians through the years.
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Guest Post: Meet Hannah from DMLab North West
Today we are delighted to share a guest post from one of our DMLab North West community – Hannah. Read on to find out more about how she came to […]
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Ben Lunn discusses his Drake Music commission on Medium
As we launch our latest Emergent commission call-out, composer Ben Lunn has written a reflective blog post about the process of his own commission. The post for Medium discusses Ben’s choice to […]
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Using the term SEN/D
Drake Music is moving away from using the term SEN/D due to its broad meaning – it doesn’t provide the information we need, or that Disabled people identify with. We […]
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Released: We All Make Music GUIDE
Today we are proud to release the We All Make Music GUIDE. Download it here: We All Make Music 2018 GUIDE – Online The Guide aims to help the music […]
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We All Make Music pledges for change
We All Make Music was our flagship inclusive music education event, celebrating three years of Think2020. We brought people together from across the sector to imagine and create the future […]
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Understanding Disability: Part 6 – The Radical Model
Final part of a series looking at how we think about Disability, this post shares new ideas and ways of talking about Disability.
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Announcing a new consortium to open up access to music
We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with Creative United, OHMI and OpenUp Music to help tackle the crisis in music education. Together we are calling on the […]
