It's an honour to be presenting a keynote presentation at EuNet MERYC25 in May (14-17) in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Read abstract here meryc2025.com/keynotes/ Featuring @magicacorns.bsky.social practice&research @merycengland.bsky.social Join us!

I am so looking forward to this. Diverse practices and conversations about community music - now @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social @davecamlin.bsky.social @soundabout.bsky.social @jessabrams.bsky.social

Congratulations! I look forward to diving in with this🥳

I am so Thrilled that Jools brings this webinar for @magicacorns.bsky.social community of artists educators and families. I've been inspired by her work and ideas for years. Excited 😊

Join us on Tuesday 18 February at 7pm as Sound Sense board members Rebecca Denniff and Dr Jessica Pitt host our monthly online Gathering. Connect with other community musicians + share your thoughts on what community music looks like in 2025. All welcome! Email [email protected] to join in.

It was fascinating to hear about the 'radical acceptance' that Roku Poly offers people under three and their adults. Beautiful responsive performance work 🥰

See you soon!

"One of the reasons why musical play is so valuable is its expressive potential" Our researcher @jesspitt.bsky.social writes in Music Teacher magazine, calling for our "attention to the unique affordance of music for children to express themselves." www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/feat...

Competence, capacity and connection - Trevarthen helped me understand beyond words communication through music. Thanks for sharing about your work 😊

www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/feat... Thank you Music Teacher magazine for commissioning this piece about music and very young children 🥰🎉🥰

I am so looking forward to this. Diverse practices and conversations about community music - now @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social @davecamlin.bsky.social @soundabout.bsky.social @jessabrams.bsky.social

So so proud to be part of this organisation - what an annual report!! 🥰🥰🥰@sophfox.bsky.social @magicacorns.bsky.social

Oh @joalbinclark.bsky.social thank you...your posts feel so attuned to my needs at the moment. Thank you x

Does your community music activity incorporate other creative artforms? Share your practice with us - we're looking for articles for the next issue of Sounding Board journal. If you have a resource or article you'd like to share, please DM or email [email protected]

@soundsenseuk.bsky.social 1st & 2nd March in-person get together in Leeds for Community Musicians. Variety of ticket prices. Do join us! Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

Hello Bluesky! 👋 Sound Sense is the UK professional association for community musicians. Since 1990, we have been proud to support, promote, and advocate for the many highly-skilled and hardworking practitioners who make up the vibrant community music sector in the UK and abroad www.soundsense.org

All welcome to join this @soundsense gathering to chat about use of social media as a community musician facilitated by the wonderful Rebecca Deniff

What?!? 12 (yes 12) funded PhDs with a focus on sound, amplification, hearing. Wow! Deadline 24 Jan. Please share: www.hud.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Excellent issue from UK Community Music Association Sound Sense on the topic of anti-racism and discriminatory practice. 'Inaction is an action' (says Dr Stella Louis) sway.cloud.microsoft/rFcSiwKcpMqc...

More details and booking here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rose-feath...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 😊

Merry Christmas and Happy Solstice to you lovely lot! 🎄🎁🎉🎄😊

Excellent issue from UK Community Music Association Sound Sense on the topic of anti-racism and discriminatory practice. 'Inaction is an action' (says Dr Stella Louis) sway.cloud.microsoft/rFcSiwKcpMqc...

We are so excited by the Time & Space expressions of interest that are landing in our inbox! There’s still time to send us yours. Deadline tomorrow- 15th December. www.magicacorns.co.uk/post/time-sp...

Loved it! Thanks @sophfox.bsky.social for such a treat! Gorgeous dreamy music mixed with fun and clever tunes. Warm welcome with delicious chai 🎶🫖☺️

Very pleased to share my mycelial thinking about music and very young children at iMerc hybrid seminar today with the super organised welcoming @eunice-tang.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social great to hear about Christie Haddad's research and philosophical ideas from Prof David Elliott

www.moma.org/magazine/art... great piece from @louisapenfold.bsky.social - Sound as creative play material for children - YES! And for all of us!

Today we publish a policy brief on the need for equitable access to #musicalcare in supporting the health and wellbeing of families: tinyurl.com/musicalcare @rcmlondon.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social

Feeling is so mutual @sophfox.bsky.social 🥰

Absolutely love that I get to work/play with this wonderful woman!

So happy to be @magicacorns.bsky.social today...being with babies and artists! What's not to love! #creativeresearch

🎶thank you🎶 mycelium shows me that sound is hyphal;reaching beyond boundaries to 'commingle'(Sheldrake) with other matter. Noisy, agentic and WILD!!

Oooh thank you for sharing this @joalbinclark.bsky.social 🥰

Reminder - Full time funded PhD opportunity at Birmingham City University, UK. Details at: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

Is there someone out there with availability for a January start and who might be looking for a Music Education Leadership role on a fixed term 12 month position? The new post holder will work with me as part of the London West Music Hub. #MusicEducation. jobs.hillingdon.gov.uk/vacancies/25...

@magicacorns.bsky.social so pleased to find you here!

Call for Contributions/Abstracts/Papers for the 11th Biennial International Froebel Society Conference @ University of Erfurt, Germany Title: Froebelian Pasts, Present & Futures Dates: 31 July-2 Aug 2025 Abstracts due: 9 Dec 2024 #Froebel #Froebelian #ECEC #EarlyChildhood #Play #Education #EduSky