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Looking to fund your music project?
PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund is an opportunity for composers with a strong track record, giving direct access to funding at pivotal stages in their career.
A contribution of up to £8,000 – £15,000 is available to composers who are already making a significant cultural contribution in the UK and have the potential for greater impact in the UK and overseas.
Cultural space and infrastructure survey
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The council’s Arts Development team are working with colleagues and partners to ensure cultural and community space and infrastructure are safeguarded and included in development and regeneration planning across the city.
The team have launched a Cultural Infrastructure Survey to identify current needs and pressure points around space, and are keen to hear from artists and creatives requiring space or renting space for their practice, as well as organisations and businesses who offer and enable space for others.
Findings from the survey will be used to inform new strategies and guidance, and will inform priorities around Place in Bristol’s new Cultural Strategy.
The survey takes around 5 minutes to complete. The deadline for completion Friday 22 November.
A Ticket to the Future: Bristol Music Fund
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Bold proposals for a new fund aimed at supporting Bristol’s iconic music scene have been launched.
The Bristol Music Fund is not just a music fund, it is a new economic model rooted in community power.
Over the past 18 months, Bristol Nights has been in conversation with the music industry to imagine a better future for Bristol’s internationally renowned music scene and to collaborate on creating a self-sustaining funding model to invest in music in the city.
After months of talking, listening, and collaborating with the sector, Bristol Nights is proud to share ‘A Ticket To The Future’, a feasibility study co-designed with strategy development specialists PRD, and venues, promoters, artists and the music community.
Do You Love To Sing? Then Gareth Malone Needs You!
Applications for auditions for this year’s Gareth Malone choir are now live! Please find attached a social media poster.
The organisers are looking for eight individuals that live within an easy commute of Cardiff, for rehearsal purposes and then for the final event. Ideally, they would need to commit to rehearsals, at least two a week from December through to January with a break over Christmas. Gareth Malone will be carrying out final auditions in early December.
They are looking for individuals from all walks of life who love to sing, but ideally have never sung in a classical choral choir.
As part of the application process, the applicant will need to record 30 seconds to 1 minute of them singing a song that really showcase their voice, as well as the first and second verse of the folk ballad ‘Scarborough Fair’, this must be unaccompanied! Links to versions of the song online can be found on the form, but there are A LOT of versions on the internet so have fun! After that it is just a quick application form.
So if you are interested visit the site and register. You have until early November.
Electronic music production conference – EMPRO May 27-28th
Electronic music producers and artists, I hope you’re excited, because we are!
💥 Demo-drop your music and be seen by EMPRO ‘23 partnering Record Labels
💥 Join over 40 live sessions and workshops led by some of the most fascinating music production masters out there
💥 Network and join roundtable discussions, receive valuable insight from other attendees and EMPRO sponsors
And much more! Tune in to EMPRO 2023 to be in sync with the latest electronic music production trends, tools and field players
Electronic music production conference – EMPRO May 27-28th
Festival of Nature events throughout June
My name is Christina and I work with the Natural History Consortium, a collaborative charity on a mission to engage people with nature. We host a variety of events across the year in the Bristol and Bath area and our biggest is the Festival of Nature, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Across June we’ll be hosting a range of activities, talks and sessions (many of which are free!) for people of all ages and interests.
One of these events which we think may be of interest to your group is Composition and Conservation: Behind the Wildlife Score. We are delighted to be hosting this special evening with award-winning wildlife film composer and conductor William Goodchild. This spectacular event on Tuesday 13 June will be a musical celebration of William’s 100 commissions for natural history programming, including for major broadcasters Netflix and BBC. Dr Simon Bell, staff producer and award-winning director at BBC Studios Natural History Unit, will be in conversation with William exploring his inspiration, process, and the role of music in natural history film production. This event also welcomes special guest, James Reed, the renowned natural history director best known for his work directing Oscar winning documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’. James will also talk about and show clips from his latest production ‘Chimp Empire’.
More information about the event with how to book can be found here.
We hope this will be of interest to your group and we’d be very grateful if you could share the news with your network and members.
Thank you very much and we hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Christina
Into Songwriting?
If you are into songwriting or want to start, you need to attend our next meeting on Wednesday 3rd May 2023, 12pm till 2pm at Bristol Beacon.
Our topic will be The Art of Songwriting with special guests Songwriting Magazine
We look forward to seeing you there.
MindHarp Presentations at Bristol Paintworks
Bmin are excited to let you know that the guys at MindHarp have refocused their technology into the world of web apps. This allows them to offer MindHarp activities on all platforms and develop customised content according to specific needs.
As they launch their new workplace wellbeing MindHarp programme, they would like to invite you to a 45 min lunchtime event at SquareWorks in Bristol introducing MindHarp and the science and understandings that drive its extraordinary ability to restore calm, clarity and creativity in minutes.
This event is free and of course open to any people you feel may be interested in participating. If appropriate, do forward this on or mention it to your HR/wellbeing officer or whoever looks after this area. Alternatively, let them know who they should contact. We know they would really appreciate your support/recommendations.
There are two events being held at Squareworks Bristol Hub
1) 7/03/2023
Eventbrite invite
2) 30/03/2023
The eventbrite invite
If you can’t make one of these events but would like to know more, please let Mark at MindHarp know. He’d be delighted to introduce you to MindHarp 1-1 and chat at your convenience.
If you would like to experience and learn more about MindHarp please use the following link
Mark Smulian
Director at MindHarp
Music-powered activities supporting peace building and social change
Music-powered activities supporting peace building and social change
Wellbeing, Mental calm, creative stimulation
Therapy support for neurological rehab and dementia
Education and SENhttps://mindharp.world/
Therapy support for neurological rehab and dementia
Education and SENhttps://mindharp.world/