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Carien’s musings
One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot is what a fantastic team we have at Drake Music. Within that team, there’s so much expertise, experience, so many ideas, commitment and enthusiasm for the work that we do.
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What Drake Music shared in April and May
Well, we have reached the end of our organisation-wide connecting and amplifying ‘experiment’. In this post I want to share what Drake Music colleagues have shared in April and in May
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Ramp It Up! @ Newfield School, Blackburn
The 10-week Ramp It Up! project took place on Monday afternoons at Newfield School in Blackburn. Newfield is a school for children and young people with a broad range of special educational needs.
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Katie O’Brien – Springwood Heath Artist’s Residency blog
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.
Showcase
VIDEO: Hansel & Gretel – an inclusive cross-arts production at Springwood Heath Primary, Liverpool
In March 2014 four disabled and non-disabled artists from across the UK visited Springwood Heath Primary School in Liverpool for a week-long cross-arts residency
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Reflections on 4 Aspects of Music Session Delivery
For this latest blog post I am looking back at the work I did earlier in the year at Abbots Lea at Matthew Arnold, helping to introduce the Sounds of Intent musical assessment framework.
Events
Invitation to Songs For All Performance – April 2014
Drake Music in partnership with Daylight Resource Centre, Islington cordially invites you to the performances of Songs For All, a celebration of accessible song writing and performance.
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Follow the Leader
I was recently involved in a week-long project for Drake Music at Springwood Heath primary school in Liverpool. Springwood Heath is a school that caters for both mainstream pupils and those with a variety of needs, and for this project a team of four Drake Music associates were working alongside 19 pupils to develop and perform a production of Hansel & Gretel.
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C&C Music Commission ‘Chinatown My Chinatown’
This Monday will see the beginning of a Drake Music Connect and Collaborate Music Commission.
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Springwood Heath Artists Residency – Hansel & Gretel
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.