Each Thursday we’ll be sharing snippets from our #MusicEducation & youth arts conference with More Music exploring pathways available to young people

First up, the Keynote from Roger Wilson (@BLKLivesinMusic) exploring what we can do as a community 💪 youtu.be/I1Mbp4DkfGU

Our Catalyser Fund is open for Expressions of Interest until Friday 4 Nov, 5pm.

Congratulations to our first round of funded partners from this fund! 👏

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This year is the most ambitious yet as 25 delegates – 12 from Manchester and 13 from the rest of the world – head to WOMEX in Lisbon with help from Manchester Music City, Brighter Sound and us.

It's time for new international connections!

Read more: brightersound.com/womexchange-20…

12 Manchester-based music professionals are off to WOMEX 2022 this week to build new partnerships between #Manchester and the rest of the world!

Find out about this year’s 25 delegates > brightersound.com/womexchange-20…

Photo by Jacob Crawfurd

What would an orchestra sound like if it was representative of the everyone in the city of #Manchester ?

This is the question a team of talented musicians aged 12-18 explored as part of the Manchester Experimental Orchestra 🎶 youtu.be/FXLOggqFEUY GM Music Hub ACE North

The Swan, Nwando Ebizie's club banger with rave-inspired synths & deep bassline, was inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estes's retelling of The Ugly Duckling, the archetype of the Swan

Be part of her multi-sensory & disability-led artistic installation > selfsensespace.com

.People's History Museum (PHM)'s Nothing About Us Without Us exhibition opens from 16th November, exploring disabled people’s activism

Add your creative flair to our multi-sensory installation Self, Sense, Space as part of this exhibition in December > selfsensespace.com

Thank you to speakers Karma Bertelsen (she/her) (FUGA), Kate Lowes (@BrighterSound ) & Pamela Owusu-Brenyah (@popkulturberlin ) at our panel ‘Lead By Example’ yesterday. We really delved into HOW to make actionable change for gender equity in the music industry from different perspectives.

Multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie creates genre-blurring Afrofuturist sonic visions. I Seduce, the first single from her album The Swan is one such vision

Work with her this December for Self, Sense, Space, our multi-sensory & disability-led installation > selfsensespace.com

Available to read and listen to (courtesy of the revolution’s renaissance 🇳🇬🇯🇲 🙏) any time you like at allthingsequal.co

▫ Brighter Sound invite you to part of a multi-sensory and disability-led artistic residency led by Nwando Ebizie.

Closing - 02 Nov
Location - Manchester & Online
££ - Expenses

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We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Manchester City Council #McrCultureAwards2022 with partners Brighter Sound for Mindscapes Soundspaths. You can find out more here. ow.ly/ziiS50L2XYG

Self, Sense, Space will be a multi-sensory installation created by D/deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent artists & women/marginalised genders

Apply if you're working in:

> Music / Sound 🎶
> Visual / Lighting 💡
> Scent / Olfactory 👃
> Touch / Textile 🧵

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Heard of Music Managers Forum's Accelerator Programme for Music Managers?

For songwriter, DJ & producer managers, Accelerator offers financial & educational support & 12-month grants of up to £15,000

Join their online application briefing this Thursday 6th October > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Be part of Self, Sense, Space, a multi-sensory and disability-led artistic residency!

This is a fantastic opportunity for D/deaf/Disabled/Neurodivergent artists and women/marginalised genders working in:

🎶 Music/ Sound
💡 Visual/ Lighting
🌫️ Scent/ Olfactory
🧤 Touch/ Textile

Me and RAINYRAINYRAINY gonna have a chat about our performance styles, how they came to be and how you can develop your own