Arts First CIC

Leading the Music Education Hub in Islington. We create opportunities in music & the arts for children & young people, their families & the community around us.

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Funk In The Forest! Some Lee Morgan tunes being performed by young musicians from Waltham Forest @UnionChapelUK for the @musicforyouth festival.

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@RaglanSchools Brass Band kicking off our @musicforyouth afternoon session with a bit of Mission Impossible!

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The morning session of the @musicforyouth regional festival @UnionChapelUK has been fantastic! Our mentors are on stage now giving their feedback.

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A great Early Years concert from @theoae this morning. I’m sure the children from Pakeman Primary School enjoyed it as much as I did!

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Great stuff! https://t.co/9mTPBLcI48

[Arts Professional @ArtsPro]

ICYMI: How @EdgeArtsBath is using the arts and creativity to drive forward innovation in science and engineering https://t.co/HDUVRMnlkh

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Interesting to compare how education in music varies around the world! https://t.co/9YwtGq6WvD

[Arts Professional @ArtsPro]

Major programme to compare creativity in schools across the world https://t.co/56U42r7c9r

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Brilliant work on care wards demonstrating the sheer power that music can have on people living with dementia. https://t.co/jE9ExD4EiT

[Dougie Scarfe @dougiescarfe]

The brilliant @ValentineNeil demonstrating the extraordinary power of music and @BSOrchestra outstanding work on acute care wards with people living with #dementia @alzheimerssoc https://t.co/kknwmsPV31

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Really interesting take on the development of urban music by youngsters here. https://t.co/fGw8mggKHY

[Arts Professional @ArtsPro]

Why music education is failing young people, especially those from diverse and working-class backgrounds - @urbandevelopmnt https://t.co/pZOYnrfnne

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Excellent stuff! @BeatGoesOnUK https://t.co/OCrlLsHQwx

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Hear, hear! Music is essential. https://t.co/4tHaA7ieNA

[Classical Music @ClassicalMusic_]

'Music should no longer be perceived as an add-on, a luxury, the icing on the cake. Music is the cake itself – and we have never needed its sustenance more than now.' - @JLloydWebber https://t.co/A0P9X7QofT

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Parents and teachers!: we've discovered a lovely little classical-music-for-kids podcast here https://t.co/bPHbxyW65m

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Rather sweet song playlists for little ones here! #sing #voice #music #education https://t.co/yDefzlenW6 via @CBeebiesLand

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This is great; 10-minute 'snappy operas' being written by school children in @TowerHamletsNow #compose #music #opera #London https://t.co/hvYwooWhtZ

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Alarmingly, 35% of the UK's music venues have closed in the last decade: find out about writing to your MP to help save the ones that are left here https://t.co/UcFKTIDodz #musicvenues #petition #change

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Great orchestral idea: #SpiraMirabilis "Wouldn't it be nice to study a piece of music a bit more deeply without worrying about money or selling tickets? It was as simple as that, and in some ways it still is." @Telegraph https://t.co/W2u9ekeCWm

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A big hello to new followers!! @BirmConLearning @TorbayMusicFest @GoresbrookMusic @into_opera @Eton_Music

[Music Education Solutions @musicedsolution]

Excellence in Primary Music #London
Friday 9th Feb @ISM_music
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Book here: https://t.co/mYfr2CciPA
#musiced #musiceducation #primarycpd

[Arts Professional @ArtsPro]

Creative industries risk losing 27,000 jobs in no-deal Brexit https://t.co/q37aMX998S

[IslingtonArtsFactory @IAFholloway]

Who has been to see the Rachel Whiteread exhibition @Tate Britian? Isn't it fantastic? It closes in less than two weeks so go check it out if you haven't yet. In the meantime here's a video on casting for inspiration https://t.co/8ZPH7tcwjw

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This is great! Classical music, on stamps! https://t.co/wLhllTOV4e