Posts Tagged ‘music education’
Make Music Gloucestershire – resources for inclusion in music
Make Music Gloucestershire, the music education hub for the county, was launching an Inclusion Conference. They wanted to add value to the event by signposting people to resources to help make music education more inclusive. They approached us because Anita has worked with the partnership over many years, and has a special interest and knowledge…
Read MoreThe #Mymusicaljourney Twitter campaign
Last month I ran a short Twitter campaign called #mymusicaljourney. I wanted to demonstrate a way of getting interest on social media that perhaps we don’t use enough in the music education/music for wellbeing sectors. It was also an experiment, as I wanted to test what worked, and what I could learn and pass on.…
Read MoreWiltshire Music Connect – case studies, leaflets and communications strategy
“You’ve brought music hub communications expertise into our team and we’ll be communicating more effectively as a result of it. We enjoyed the balance between support and challenge and appreciated your sensitivity to particular issues and challenges. Thank you.” Nick Howdle, Leader, Wiltshire Music Connect. We’ve worked with Wiltshire Music Connect on a range of…
Read MoreHow to get more traffic to your website and improve your Google ranking
If you’re a music organisation, arts organisation or small charity, you may be communicating well with specific audiences. But how do you grow your audience and get greater engagement and sales, participation and support on a small budget? One important and often overlooked tactic is to make sure every page on your site is ‘optimised’…
Read MoreWhat can music & creative education advocates learn from sports about behaviour change?
This week, I was at a meeting about the strategy for young people’s health and wellbeing in Gloucestershire*. A presentation from Active Gloucestershire really started me thinking. What could we in the cultural and creative learning sector – and particularly music – learn from sports charities about behaviour change? The presentation was about Gloucestershire’s pilot…
Read MoreMusic Mark music education conference 2018: hubs & inclusion / the workforce
Music Mark music education conference 2018: Youth Voice.
Charanga – copywriting, website development, and vision, mission and values
Charanga creates modern, fun and irresistibly easy-to-use online resources to help teachers to inspire and excite children and young people to learn music in the classroom. Our paths kept crossing through our work in music education, until it seemed obvious we should be working together! We were commissioned initially to help develop the communications strategy…
Read MoreSoundfly – a new kind of music school for today’s musician
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-fubeloWxE] In a co-working space in Brooklyn, New York, Ian Temple and his team – including remote working colleagues in LA, Montreal, Georgia and North Carolina – have been developing a platform designed to help today’s musician develop their skills and their business. Soundfly offers a range of cross-genre and cross-skills-set courses, many free,…
Read MoreHow parents and grandparents can support and champion music education
We’re all aware that music is good for children and music can keep people happy, healthy and mentally fit throughout their lives – and there’s evidence to back it up. But with threats to arts and music education funding in many countries, what can families of young musicians do to make sure the current generation of young…
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