1 Int' Day of Older Persons
1 Black History Month
4 World Animal Day
5 World Habitat Day
8 World Sight Day
16 World Food Day
17 Int' Day for the Eradication of Poverty
18 One World Week
24 United Nation Day

November

10 World Science Day for Peace and Development

11 Armistice Day
16 Int" Day for Tolerance
20 Universal Children's Day

December

1 World AIDS Day
2 Int' Day for the Abolition of Slavery
2 Int" Day of Person's with Disabilities
5 Int' Volunteer Day
10 Human Rights Day
18 Int' Migrants Day

PROGRAMME PACKAGES

For further information contact Julie on:
tel: 01227 459 243
Email: Julie Larner

To find out how we can help you to programme workshops and events to mark any calendar events, please contact us or visit our website at www.musicforchange.org
The Following packages can be delivered through residencies in schools and community settings:

Safe and Sound
KS2 +
Workshops for and about Asylum seekers - i.e. raising awareness of who they are and why they may come here.

Silence the Violence
Upper KS2 +
(specifically the transition period)
Tackling the problem of gun and knife crime and gang culture in an innovative and creative way.

Eat to the Beat
All ages
Healthy eating awareness-raising through comparisons between food we eat in England and food eaten in other countries and cultures.

Calypso Cleanup
KS2 +
Awareness-raising of environmental issues through calypso song-writing.

Sound Subjects
All ages
Creativity in the curriculum - working with teachers to use the music and the arts to introduce, develop and revise national curriculum subjects.

World Wide Words
KS1+
Increasing boy's literacy skills through storytelling, percussion and songwriting. Not artist specific.

Building Friendships
KS2 +
Refugee and community integration for schools with either a refugee population or a large number of newly arrived pupils. Includes work on celebrating similarities and differences, as well as issues that arise through attempting community integration.

Tablas, Tala and Trees
KS1 +
Raising awareness of the environment and interdependency through Indian Dance through storytelling and Indian percussion.

Greetings!

Welcome to our Summer edition of the Music for Change newsletter! This season we're bringing you updates from all of our departments: Education and Community, Events and Projects. So whatever your interest you'll be sure to find relevant information about how Music for Change can work with you to add a lively, culturally diverse theme to your programme of activities.

NEWS and FEATURES

New Director at Rosco Jones

Music for Change

Rosco Jones arrived as the Director of Music for Change
on 5 April 2009.

Rosco was previously Director of Bath & North East Somerset Racial Equality Council for six years, where he worked with other RECs in the South West region to influence the Ofcom ruling upon Channel 4 around the Big Brother/Shilpa Shetti/Jade Goody incident.

Educated at the University of Wales and Nottingham Trent University, the other leadership roles Rosco has occupied over the last ten years are: Trust Manager at Fast Track Ltd, Bristol and Centre Manager at Leeds West Indian Centre. Rosco also had an earlier key arts role as Arts Programmer at Kuumba Project, Bristol.

His hobbies are Hill Walking, Jazz, Theatre and Social History and he lives with his wife and their three children in Somerset.

"Dear readers, I wanted to introduce myself and say thanks to Mark Johnson-Brown (the outgoing Chief Executive) for helping with my induction in the first few weeks - we wish him well in his new endeavours." more...

Rosco Jones
Director
Music for Change
April 2009
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World Music Matters Artist Development
Global Learning through Music, Dance & Story for Artists in Education

Music for Change is once again running its successful university accredited professional development course for artists in education.

The course dates: 27th-31st July Venue: Abacus Arts, London SE17

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For more information contact: Donna Murphy
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Take part in an Indian dancegoa

Dance Workshop in Goa
with our associate artist
Sujata Banerjee

contact details and more about the workshop...
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EDUCATION NEWS

World Music Matters (WMM)
It's been a busy few months for the project with more artists' residencies in schools, professional development with teachers and other community organisation leaders and a planned artist development programme this coming Summer. Below is a roundup of some of the activities:

Making Waves at Hollymount Primary
Y5 pupils at Hollymount Primary School in Merton SW20 had the chance to work with 'H' Patten to create a dance piece around the theme of water. Y5 teacher Rachel Osbourne said "It was great to be able to incorporate the work that I have been teaching on (Water) and then work with 'H' to put it into practice."
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"During the performance I noticed that the less confident children were extremely confident when reading their stores, which is fantastic!"

Rachel Osborne Y5 Teacher -
Hollymount Primary School, Merton.
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Lifting the Layers on the Fashion Industry at Northfleet School for Girls

Back in March Sujata Banerjee and Celia Wickham-Anderson worked with Y8 students to explore the global fashion industry through music and dance. The project culminated in a performance for visitors from Age Concern Gravesend, where the girls had a chance to showcase the songs and dance pieces developed with the artists and share their learning around the global fashion industry. Kent and the Wider World provided valuable input around ethical issues relating to fashion.
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Reel Lives Cheddington

Years 1 & 3 at Cheddington Combined School Leighton Buzzard worked with Usifu Jalloh to explore universal themes of food and clothes. Usifu shared stories, songs, games and dance from Sierra Leone, the UK and beyond. The teachers worked with our Reel Lives: Sierra Leone DVD to provide a background for the children to discover mutual interests with the children featured on the DVD, and consider how their lives differed. The children produced some fantastic art work and put on an impressive showcase for parents and carers. This residency was run in partnership with Aylesbury Development Education Centre
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World Music Matters CPD for Teachers and Community Project Leaders

MfC collaborated with TIDE~ (Teachers in Development Education) Birmingham on their course for teachers to explore global learning with visiting artists. The days' course was very well attended and generated lots of ideas and strategies for sustaining the impact of visiting artists and linking in to global learning.

For more information about this and other themed packages contact Donna on tel: 01227 459243
or email: Donna Murphy
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COMMUNITY NEWS

Pulse Project
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In March Music For Change formed a partnership with Connexions Canterbury to coach local young people in putting on live musical events.

Future Creative has funded eight cultural organisations throughout Kent to support young people in leading their own festivals and events. This initiative is known as "Pulse"

Pulse partnerships present a big challenge: for the partner organisations to overcome the limitations of their business model, to provide young people new employment and training opportunities.

Along with assisting the 12 young people aged 16-19 to put on their own events, the Pulse Project instils life-skills, decision-making skills, and provides exposure to the world of work and to employers.

By the end of April, these are some of the things that the group had achieved:

Learning how to work within a group.
Presentation skills.
Negotiation skills - visits to venues.
Confidence-building activities.
Music history - to identify the crossover and relationship between World Music and Urban Music, helping the young people to gain a perspective beyond their chosen musical style of Hip-Hop.

The Pulse Project is funded by Future Creative, and in Canterbury it is run by Pulse Co-ordinator Lorraine Lougher, Connexions Manager David Jenner, and MFC Director Rosco Jones.

For more information contact: Rosco Jones
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