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Music in Healthcare Settings Training week, Brighton February 25th – March 1st 2013
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Skills required:
- Previous music leading experience working with social as well as musical outcomes.Competency on at least one instrument/voice, appropriate repertoire and basic improvisation skills.
- Competency on at least one instrument/voice, appropriate repertoire and basic improvisation skills.
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Hospitals can be extremely challenging places to work due to the conditions of some of the patients and the high demands placed on staff. Applicants will need to be confident that they are able to work in this environment.
- Understand and explore the place of music in health settings and related ethical issues
- Identify and explore the theoretical and practical skills needed to work as a musician in health care settings
- Musical techniques and approaches (vocal and instrumental repertoire, appropriate instruments, improvisation)
- Spatial awareness and interaction with patients and families
- Working in partnership with health institutions and care staff
Course Details
Refreshments: Tea and Coffee will be available, however to keep costs down we ask you to provide your own lunch
Application: Please email rachael@rhythmixmusic.org.uk for a form. This is to be completed by the 19th November 2012. Decisions will be announced by the 19th December
Be-Connected - Networking Events in September
Thursday 26 July 2012
Working together to put on these events will be;
Venue: Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3XG
Date/Time: 19th September - 17.30 - 19.30
Book Here: http://be-connectedbrighton.eventbrite.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/
Region: Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Reading, Slough
Date/Time: 25th September - 17.30 - 19.30
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Drake way, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 0GQ
Book Here: http://be-connectedreading-eorg.eventbrite.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/320859961341832/
Silent Voices Exhibition
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Labels: East Sussex, exhibition, Rhythmix, South East, Youth Arts
Brighton & Hove Music & Arts Music Summer School 2012
Thursday 29 March 2012
Brighton & Hove Music & Arts have released their music summer school schedule for 2012. Please click on the link for further details
http://www.bhmas.org.uk/music/
Labels: Brighton and Hove, Summer School
Brighton and Hove Early Years Music Network
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Vocal work and music for Early Years with Speech and Language difficulties
= Do you work in an early years setting?
= Would you like to learn how to use music?
= How can you use music to increase movement and
language?
= Want to meet and learn with others in the city?
If you want to know more this networking day is for you!
This terms session focuses on Props, Puppets and Action songs! Using everything from feathers and bean bags to a Pringles tin, Caroline will show you how to use inexpensive props to bring Early Years songs to life! Learn new action songs to help encourage movement and increase vocabulary in your groups.No musical experience is required - all repertoire is easy to sing and will be accompanied by
hand-outs.
The Course Leaders
Caroline Henderson: Caroline has worked in nurseries and Early Years settings across Brighton and
Hove since 2007. She is an Early Years Tutor, Trainer and Mentor for Rhythmix and runs Seahorse
music after-school club at West Hove Infants.
Course Details
Date and Time: Monday 26th March, 1.30-4pm
Location: Brighton Unitarian Church, New Rd, BN1 1UF Map here
The venue is fully accessible – please inform us of any accessibility needs that you have.
Refreshments: Tea & Coffee, Please note that lunch isn’t provided.
Course Fee: FREE
To book your place or for more information please contact Rachael Casoria:
rachael@rhythmixmusic.org.uk or 08701 417484 (ext 1)
Web: www.rhythmixmusic.org.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RhythmixMusic
MusicLeader South East: www.musicleader.net/southeast
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MusicLeaderSouthEast
Sound Connections-Spring Training
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Sound Connections Web address: www.sound-connections.org.
Youth Justice Taster Day, 22nd February
A one day practical workshop introducing participants to the skills required to run a successful music workshop working with young offenders.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Music for those on the Autistic Spectrum, 28th February
This workshop will be sharing an overview of understanding the needs of those with autism and useful approaches when music leading with these groups. The day will be mostly hands on with theory discussed when necessary.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Free Sing Up London Conference, 7th March
We would like to invite you to attend a free Sing Up London Conference on 7th March (9.30am-4.30pm). The event is aimed at primary and secondary teachers and community musicians in London, everyone who is engaged in vocal and singing activities with young people both in and out of school.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Child- initiated Play, 15th March
This one day course will look at ways of increasing levels of child-initiated musical play within the context of working in an early years environment either as an early years practitioner or a visiting musician.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Singing Assemblies, 22nd March
Get them singing, keep them singing, and learn while you sing! This session will show how assemblies are a great time to introduce musical skills, explore 'special' repertoire and develop part-singing with the whole school!
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Shake It All About: Who’s Doing the Music? 22nd March
Sound Connections and the London Early Years Music Network (LEYMN) invite you to a day's seminar looking at the role of parents and families in supporting music-making outside of early years settings.
http://shakeitallabout.
Olympic- themed Playground songs, 27th March
Using singing games and fun songs, this practical and fun workshop will explore simple ways of leading classroom singing without the need for a piano.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Labels: Sound Connections, Spring Training