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Youth Music Week 2007
Find free music activities during half-term October 24-31
Youth Music has established two Early Years pilot zones in Great Yarmouth and North Tyneside to deliver intensive music-making activities for 0-5 year olds.
Singing Communities
The Singing Communities partnership programme set out to find out to what extent singing makes a difference to young people and their communities.
Wider Opportunities
Youth Music ran pilot projects in seven Music Services to provide great access to instrument tuition for primary school aged children. Sound Inventors
Sound Inventors is a Youth Music initiative, devised and delivered by spnm, with partnership funds from the PRS Foundation. It comprises twenty England-wide projects to support young people aged 8-18 in creating their own music. Come and Play
A partnership between Youth Music and Kids Club Network to develop innovative music-making activities for primary school aged children in after-school clubs and holiday play schemes. National Youth Music Organisations
An advocacy and funding initiative to help stabilise the funding of the national youth music organizations. Gallery 37 Plus
Gallery 37 Plus is a cross-arts youth engagement programme for 16 – 24 year olds which focuses on intensive summer activity.
The Summer programmes taking place annually in five different parts of the country will provide young people with the chance to become apprentices in the arts. They will work alongside professional ‘lead’ artists who are supported by ‘shadow’ artists throughout the four week programme. These young people who might have faced challenging circumstances in their lives will learn new skills as well as develop existing ones. They will be able to develop an artistic skill and use technologies or techniques that they might otherwise not have access to. During the programme routes into education, training or work placements will be made available to them.
Gallery 37 Plus sprung from an annual programme taking place in Birmingham. Gallery 37 Birmingham in its turn came from Chicago where the original idea started in a gallery on Block 37 in the city centre. The ethos behind the programme was to motivate and enthuse young people who were not actively involved in positive pursuits, either professionally or personally. It has enabled many young people to enter education, training or employment as a result of their involvement in the programme and is now replicated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland as well as Birmingham.
With funding obtained from the Big Lottery Fund, Youth Music and Gallery 37 Birmingham together with the five delivery partners, the cities of Bristol and Leeds, the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, the district council of Newark and Sherwood and the Roundhouse in London will be delivering summer programmes in 2007/2008 for over 600 young people.
For further information about Gallery 37 Plus or Gallery 37 you can contact Samantha Mellows the National Co-ordinator at
Youth Music.
T: 0207 902 1099
E: samantha.mellows@youthmusic.org.uk
Alternatively, you can contact one of the regional co-ordinators listed below:
Katy Noakes – Bristol City Council
T: 0117 922 3699
E: katy.noakes@bristol.gov.uk
Samantha Blackburn – Leeds City Council
T: 0113 247 8539
E: samantha.blackburn@leeds.gov.uk
Barbara O’Brien – The Roundhouse, London
T: 0207 424 8474
E: barbara.obrien@roundhouse.org.uk
Becci Mason – Newark & Sherwood District Council
T: 01636 657 401
E: Becci.mason@nsdc.info
Julie Ashforth – Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
T: 0161 770 3097
E: julie.ashforth@oldham.gov.uk
