Ray – singer-songwriter at Mountbatten. Ray is an outpatient at Mountbatten and he’s been making music there since January. He collaborates with Fraser Simpson from Nordoff and Robbins, writing and developing his songs.
The Mountbatten Folk Group has begun! After a workshop with local musicians a new folk group has begun at Mountbatten for service users, visitors, staff, families and volunteers….
The Festival of Care for Music has happened. And the Cabaret that was its culmination was fabulous…..
The Care for Music Festival is being held next week at Mountbatten Hospice. Events include a public concert hosted by Mountbatten’s CEO, Nigel Hartley and the Mountbatten Community Choir directed by Care for Music team member, Fraser Simpson. Tickets for the concert (which were free) have sold out so we’re expecting roughy 80 attendees. At the interval, a local cake maker has created something special…. . Other events that form part of this festival include a seminar on Project findings, a discussion of the film-in-progress by Wolfgang Schmid and Jill Halstead Last(ing) Music, and a small workshop with local musicians on playing ‘lounge’ music in care settings. Exciting days ahead!
We are delighted that our article on ‘late’ learning is now published in a Special Issue of Scuola Democratica,Edited by Anna Lisa Tota and Antonietta De Feo. Other articles in this rich SI address Disability and Arts Education, Prison Theatre, Epistemology, Educational Research Training, Teaching Sociology through social aesthetics, the School as a Temporary Exhibition Space, and two book reviews, one on A. Bayley’s Posthuman Pedagogies in Practice: Arts Based Approaches for Developing Participatory Futures (Palgrave MacMillan 2018)and one on Tia’s book on Hope in the same issue.)
*
We are delighted to announce that Gary Ansdell and the late Mercedes Pavlicevic have received the 2022 European Music Therapy Confederation Award.
Gary writes: “My heartfelt thanks to the European Music Therapy Confederation for this honour. Also on behalf of the late Mercedes Pavlicevic and her family, who will be thrilled to hear this news. ……”
You can read the full story here: https://careformusic.org/2022/06/11/gary-ansdell-and-mercedes-pavlicevic-receive-2022-european-music-therapy-conference-award/
News: Fraser Simpson and The UK Mental Health and Wellbeing Awards 2021, Support During the Pandemic
We are thrilled to announce that the UK Mental Health and Wellbeing Awards 2021, Support During the Pandemic, was won by Care for Music Team Member, Fraser Simpson. Fraser won the award on behalf of Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy for his work that facilitates the Mountbatten Hospice Community Choir Project and other services at Mountbatten. The Community Choir Project was one of 17 shortlisted projects to be nominated for this prestigious award. Click on the title above to read more…
Care for Music 