By Lottie Parsons | Marketing and PR
Dear Friends,
Our Autumn term has gotten off to a glowing start, with hundreds of young students bringing so much joy at Kimber Road (our original academy venue) and many coming multiple times a week. We are really proud of the beautiful music education and opportunities they are receiving, many made possible because of your fantastic support and donations. Thank you so much.
We also have a lovely community developing at our stunning venue in Embassy Gardens, with 46 young musicians feeling like World Heart Beat is their home, and many more participating in our First Beats, EMERGE and tech and studio work experience programmes. Our World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens venue, complete with recording studio, practice rooms and cafe, enables our young people to take advantage of the highest music tuition and facilities available whilst being a leading concert venue in the heart of London.
Our Bursary Songwriting, Guitar, Vocal and Gig Training students are flourishing. If you’d like to show your support and see some of our young piano players, bassists, guitarists, vocalists and drummers in action (led by talented vocalist and guitarist Sian Kelly and guitarist Scipio Mosley) a festive date for your diary is the Gig Band Christmas Concert on Friday 13 December. A week earlier, on Friday 6 December we have our Christmas concert with carol singing, festive music and refreshments – please check out our website for more information.
This academic year we are delighted to extend our First Beats programme. Last school year we worked with two local primary schools; this year we are able to work with four. First Beats delivers music learning to young people who live locally in Nine Elms. The children, aged 9-11, come after school to our music academy every week, learn a variety of instruments, and take part in songwriting, recording and music production.They have the opportunity to access a bursary providing weekly music tuition at no charge, for one year.
Other projects include Planet Harmony, which explores themes of social and climate justice through music. Last year’s project culminated with three in-school workshops involving 70 students and two in-school performances (150+ students and parents in the audience). For the 2024-25 festival we are developing our Sisters Grimm Partnership and are exploring a talk or workshop around environment and performance and a musical re-arrangement workshop led by Ella Spira MBE.
Trinity Buoy Sounds continues to be our successful East London programme for secondary aged students. Over the course of the year, we bring professional musicians to work with secondary school students across three schools in Tower Hamlets and Newham boroughs, and at London East Alternative Provision, an education establishment for young people who are excluded from or at risk of exclusion from mainstream education. Our Trinity Buoy Sounds programme includes song writing and performance, tabla tuition and music production teaching. In 2022-23, we provided regular music sessions for 90 young people in 3 schools. In 2023- 24 we achieved this for 185 young people in 5 sites. This year, in 2024 – 25 we hope to reach larger numbers through a partnership working with Tower Hamlets Music and Arts Service (THAMES).
For older students, our EMERGE programme, which provides industry training and talent development aimed at supporting young people looking to start a career in the music industry, will deliver a one-year music production course. The EMERGE Creative Network will launch in December 2024, creating monthly networking events as the vehicle for industry insight, mentoring and masterclass sessions and providing a platform for creative sharing.
If you would like to find out more about World Heart Beat, please visit our website, sign up to our eshot, our Memberships Programme (starting from £25/year) or come to any of our year-round concerts - all of which positively impacts the lives of young people living in South London.
Thank you again for your support, and we wish you a merry run up to Christmas!
World Heart Beat
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By Lottie Parsons | Marketing and PR
By Lottie Parsons | PR and Marketing
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