Be-Connected - Networking Events in September

Be-Connected FREE Networking events are here to support the transition towards a new landscape of music education within the South East. 

Working together to put on these events will be;

- Youth Music module holders for Musical Inclusion and Networking (programmes which replace MusicLeader South East (MLSE) and Youth Music Action Zone (YMAZ))

- Music Education Hub leaders

- Artswork (Arts Council England Bridge Organisation)

For more information on what to expect on the day and to book your place please visit the relevant links below.

Region: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex & Surrey
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/events/484599201568940/

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/events/241686622618195/

Region: Southampton, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Isle of White

Venue: SoCo Music Project, Top Floor, Bargate Shopping Centre, Southampton, SO14 1HF

Date/Time: 26th September -4.45pm - 6.45pm

Book Here: http://be-connectedsouthampton-eorg.eventbrite.com/    
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/320859961341832/ 

Silent Voices Exhibition

Silent Voices is a sound and video installation created by young people accessing Charlie’s YMCA drop-in centre in Eastbourne, giving them a platform to be heard. 

A collaborative project between young people, artists and musicians from Rhythmix, who worked in partnership with Towner Art Gallery and East Sussex Music Service. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 

The installation will be running from 10am on 11th May until 10pm on 13th May. We really hope you can come along at some point over the weekend! Please join our Facebook page for more information which will be updated soon https://www.facebook.com/events/131404616984568/ and share with your friends!

Project Management - Fund-raising & Marketing Workshop

This is a one day crash course in fund-raising for youth music project – and why marketing is at the heart of fund-raising. Where money comes from, & how to get it - from someone who knows! This popular training course developed by Ruth Jones gets results every time! Leave thinking outside the box and raring to go!

To find out more and book a place click below
http://www.musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3843

Maidstone Start Up - FREE places remaining!

MusicLeader Southeasts Start Up programme gives musicians who are new to the sector an introduction to the world of music leading. MLSE will help you to identify relevant work and training opportunities and 'ways in' to what's going on regionally and nationally. They will help you identify you're particular skills and where you fit in the big picture.

To find out more and book a FREE place go to the Music Leader website.

http://www.musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3813

Rhythmix Celebrates Youth Music Week

Do you live in Kent, East Sussex, Brighton & Hove or Surrey?

Want to have a go at a music making?

Rhythmix will be holding taster day music workshops across the South East during Youth Music Week 2010 and may be coming to a Youth Club or venue near you!

Workshops include:

Live Band: experience being in a live band and learn guitar, bass, drums and keyboard

Music Production: beat, breaks and loop making

Songwriting: all workshops will include an element of songwriting so that you can write your own tunes

All workshops are FREE!

If you already own an instrument please bring it along!

Workshop Dates, Times and Locations

1st November

16:00-18:00 – Live Band, Songwriting & Music Production

Ash Youth Centre, Ash Hill Road, Ash, Aldershot, Surrey, GU12 5DN

16:30-18:30 - Live Band & Songwriting

Ashford Youth Centre, Ashford, TW15 3JY

19.30-21.30 - Live Band, Songwriting & Music Production

Northfleet Youth Club, Hall Road, Northfleet, Kent

19.30-21.30 - Live Band & Songwriting

Shepperton Youth Centre, Shepperton Centre Drive, Laleham Road, Shepperton TW17 8EJ

19:00-21:00 - Live Band & Songwriting

Robertsbridge YC. The Grove, High Street, Robertsbridge, TN32 5AP

2nd November

15:30-17:30 - Live Band & Songwriting

Bexhill High School, Down Rd, Bexhill on Sea, TN39 4HT

17:00-19:00 - Live Band & Songwriting

Orpheus Centre, North Park Lane, Godstone, RH9 8ND

19:00-21:00 - Live Band & Songwriting

Faversham Youth Club, 46 South Road, Faversham ME13 7LR

3rd November

16:15-18:15 - Music Production & Songwriting

Caterham Youth Club, Godstone Road, Caterham, CR3 6RE

19.30-21.30- Live Band & Songwriting

Sheerness Youth Club, Broadway, Kent ME12 1TP

19:00-21:00 - Live Band, Songwriting & Music Production

Sheerwater Youth Club, Blackmore Crescent, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5NS

For more details keep an eye out on our blog www.rhythmixmusic.blogspot.com

For information on Youth Music - www.youthmusic.org.uk

or Youth Music Week - www.youthmusic.org.uk/musicispower/What-We-Do/youth-music-week-2010.html

MU & MusicLeader Child Protection Awareness Workshop

Are you a music teacher?
Does your work involve contact with children either on a one to one basis or within a group?
Want to learn about good working practices within this environment?

This Child Protection Awareness workshop is held in partnership with Musicians Union, and aims to give our members who teach the necessary skills and resources to work safely with children.

This event will cover issues such as:

• Child protection legislation
• Practical advice and good practice within a teaching environment
• Protecting yourself, interacting with children and working with children with
special educational needs
• Recognising an abused child; what to do
• Child protection case studies

More information ia available here

Last few places remaining on Start Up in Havant

The first Start Up Day is happening in Havant on 21st September 2010. Our Start Up programme gives musicians who are new to the sector an introduction to the world of music leading. We will help you to identify relevant work and training opportunities and 'ways in' to what's going on regionally and nationally. We'll help you identify you're particular skills and where you fit in the big picture

If you think this course could benefit you then check out out the training directory for more information and to register your interest www.musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3515

World Sacred Music Festival Announces Line Up

World Sacred Music Festival
11th September to 17th October
This year's theme, Divine Voices, showcases the extraordinary power of our vocal chords to invoke wonder, awe and mysticism. The focus is on music from Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths, plus a brand new composition and performances in unusual and stunning places.
More information here: www.worldsacredmusic.org

ITV Fixers Live - Performance of 'What Is Race?'

Rappers Lewis Healy, Jamal Ali and Mrisi Makondo-Wills appear alongside Josh Chesterman and Eadie McCarthy to show how they’ve been tackling all sorts of prejudices.

Watch the live performance here: http://tinyurl.com/38pk33k
See their original Fixers music video of 'What Is Race?' here: http://tinyurl.com/2uujm38

New jobs and training events now uploaded!

Check out MusicLeader South East for newly added jobs and training please check out: www.musicleader.net/south-east-jobs and www.musicleader.net/south-east-training

Song Writing with Young People

An exciting workshop coming up in Lewes, E. Sussex for anybody working with young people year 4 and above. The aims on the day will be to develop the skills of participants to enable young people to write songs they are proud of and write and how to perform a new song. To register your interest please fill out the application form on the bottom of this page http://www.musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3514

An Introduction to Song Writing & Behaviour Management Within a Music Project.

This course is the first hosted by MusicLeader South East and is taking place on 31st July in Woking. It will provide you with the knowledge you need about group dynamics within a music workshop and provides a starting point for introducing song writing into your sessions. More details can be found here http://musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3511

Since being advertised there has been an overwhelming response and this workshop is now fully booked! However, it may be run again due to the high demand so please register at south-east@musicleader.net if your still interested in attending on another date.

MusicLeader South East - First Start Up Date Now Confirmed!

This month we are very excited to announce our first Start Up Day happening in Havant on 21st September 2010. Our Start Up programme gives musicians who are new to the sector an introduction to the world of music leading. We will help you to identify relevant work and training opportunities and 'ways in' to what's going on regionally and nationally. We'll help you identify you're particular skills and where you fit in the big picture

If you think this course could benefit you then check out out the training directory for more information and to register your interest. http://www.musicleader.net/trainingcourses_details.asp?TPID=3515

Racism Out - ITV at 6pm on Thursday 27th May 2010

Jamal Ali (18), Lewis Healey (19) and Mrisi Makondo-Wills (17) all come from different backgrounds. But this hasn’t stopped them rapping and performing together.

They want to spread their anti-racist message through rap and have become Fixers to make a music video for their song Racism Out.

We take them to a studio in Soho to give them the opportunity to freestyle in a professional environment. A surprise appearance by rapper Kano inspires the Fixers to aim high. They discuss their music video and breaking down racial boundaries with him.

Watch this broadcast film in the Meridian region on ITV at 6pm on Thursday 27th May 2010.

http://itvfixers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=946:racism-out&catid=72:meridian&Itemid=177

Indian Classical Music comes to Brighton

Friday 16th July, Brighton Unitarian Church

Indian Classical Music comes to Brighton in its finest and most exhilarating form. A rare opportunity to see two masters of this genre perform in the beautiful Brighton Unitarian Church. Sitar and tabla played in the North Indian Hindustani tradition consisting of Raag (melody) and Taal (rhythm).

Born on January 21, 1962, Partha Bose was initiated to the Sitar at the age of six and thereafter underwent intensive training in the tradition of Guru-Shishya parampara under the tutelage of Pandit Monoj Shankar of the famous Maihar Gharana.

Partha has received overwhelming appreciation from connoisseurs and critics of Hindustani classical music in India and abroad over two decades now.

One of the leading exponents of the Tabla is Calcutta born maestro Shiv Shankar Ray. Not only a performer but also a very respected teacher, he represents the Farukkabadi style of playing, which is amongst the oldest of the authentic styles. He studied under the renowned late Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh of Calcutta.

For more information go to : http://mnm.co.in/events
Buy tickets online here : http://mnm.eventsbot.com/

Tickets are just £7 advance and £9 on the door.

Profit from this event will go to Rokpa, a registered charity.
www.rokpauk.org

MusicLeader South East

Audio Active Project Manager Post

Audioactive are seeking to appoint a dynamic Project Manager as they enter an exciting period of development during the next 2 years.

The Project Manager will be responsible for the day to day operational running of Audioactive’s variety of multi disciplinary music and arts projects, ensuring that our work is planned and delivered to the highest standards possible and that children, young people and partners receive a high quality service.

Details:

Post:Project Manager
Hours: 18 hours per week
Salary: £20,500 p.a. pro rata
Contract: Fixed Term – 2 Years
Deadlines for applications: 5pm on Thursday 3^rd June 2010
Interviews: Thursday 10^th June 2010

For an application pack containing more information about the position and Audioactive’s work please email office@audioactive2.com

ITV Fixers - What's Bothering You?

News Flash! Youth Music is excited to announce the appointment of Rhythmix to deliver MusicLeader South East!

MusicLeader South East is now in it’s set up phase and is due to be officially launched in April 2010.

Funded by Youth Music and delivered by Rhythmix, MusicLeader South East will support the development of the region's music leading workforce, equipping it with the knowledge and skills required by employers. Musicleader South East will provide a range of professional development services including:

• Information, advice & guidance (IAG)
• Training & networking opportunites
• Online resources

The services provided will help music leaders to actively develop their practice and ensure a more enriching learning experience for those that they deliver to.