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May 2010 Hooray! Victoria has arrived! Luke, Sara and all the trustees are pleased to welcome Victoria Samuel to the Trust in the position of Director of Fundraising and PR.
January 2010 Music in Prisons is sad to bid farewell to Jo Tilley-Riley, Director, Strategy and Funding. Jo has worked dedicatedly for the Trust for four and a half years, helping it to grow and strengthen through her excellent work. Jo leaves the Trust with a solid, exciting legacy to build upon, and huge shoes for her successor to fill. All at the Trust wish her well for the future.
October 2009 Music in Prisons is delighted that the exhibition Inside Out, first shown at the Royal Festival Hall in collaboration with the Southbank Centre, has now moved north to the offices of Jordans Solicitors in Dewsbury. The exhibition features the brilliant photography of Lizzie Coombes - who accompanied the MiP project team to document the creative process of making original music with prisoners in HMP Holloway and HMP Wandsworth - as well as listening posts to allow visitors to enjoy the music composed on the projects.
October 2009 The Trust was deeply saddened to hear of the death of long-standing patron, Ian Wallace, this October. His inspiring friendship will be greatly missed.
May 2009 Music in Prisons collaborated with Synergy Theatre Project on a full-scale production of the play Fallout by Roy Williams at HMP Brixton. Music in Prisons worked with a group of inmates to create an original score to accompany the edgy urban drama. The play was performed 6 times to an audience totaling 568, comprising of other prisoners, prison staff, participants’ families and invited outside guests. The result was an exciting, relevant production that was inspiring for both participants and audiences. “I’ve become a more positive person within myself and I have now made the choice to carry on with music when released.” Participant, Fallout “With this work, I saw how important it is for prisoners to express themselves to non-prisoners in order to be looked at differently.” Audience member, Fallout
October 2008 INSIDE OUT Blue Side Foyer, Royal Festival Hall 16th October - 13th November 2008 ‘Inside Out’ is a chance to witness the creativity and potential of men and women currently serving time in HMP Wandsworth and HMPYOI Holloway. Working alongside ex-offenders and the Southbank Centre's Emerging Artists in Residence, Music in Prisons has brought together a powerful collection of music and images that tell the stories of rarely heard members of our community.
July 2008 One of our supporters, Paul Seligman, has produced a DVD of the "Miskin at Easter" Folk Festival in South Wales. 100% of the profits will go to Music in Prisons. If you are interested in buying a copy, or just to find out more, please go to www.miskinfolk.co.uk/DVD/DVD.htm Thank you!
July 2008 Music in Prisons has been selected as one of the charities supported by collections at the BBC's Proms Season. We are really excited about this opportunity to not only raise funds, but also widen awareness about our work. So if you are going to any of the Proms, look out for the collections!
June 2008 One of our supporters has nominated us to become a recepient chairty for a donation from moneysavingexpert.com If you could like to help increase our chances of doing this, please follow THIS LINK and 'thank' post number 317. You will need to register (for free) at moneysavingexpert.com before doing this. Thank you!
March 2008 The Trust is delighted to welcome Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor and Jo Rich to the board of Trustees. Luke Bowyer also joins as Charity Administrator.
February 2008 JOB VACANCY: Charity Administrator The Irene Taylor Trust 'Music in Prisons' currently has a vacancy for a part-time (2 days per week) Charity Administrator. If you are interested in this post, please email Jo for further details. The deadline for applications is 18th February 2008.
January 2008 The Music in Prisons team started the new year with two stonking projects at HMPs Whatton and Manchester. Both are forming part of the Men's Evaluation project, which is already yielding interesting results. Several members of the project team will be engaged in a variety of other musical projects in the coming months so Music in Prisons is taking this as a good opportunity to draw project team members from a wider pool of musicians. The Trustees have been engaging in a variety of activities, including retirement(Lilian Bennett is now official retired from the Board) and running marathons (well done to both Tim and Louis!) In December, Eileen Mascoll also took up her role as Advisor to the Board of Trustees. We hope she will bring her experience, commitment and musicality to the Trust's work for many years to come.
October 2007 A new and exciting programme of creative music projects has begun, this time dealing exclusively within the adult male estate. What makes this programme different is that it is being externally evaluated by the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge. Once completed, the programme will give clear and objective proof of how valuable the work of Music in Prisons is. Hopefully, this will pave the way for greater recognition of the importance of arts in the rehabilitation of offenders.
October 2007 Music in Prisons is sad to announce the retirement of Lilian Bennett OBE from the board of trustees. Lilian has been a driving force for Music in Prisons from the moment she arrived. Her kind, personable manner and strong business acumen has inspired trustees and staff alike and we cannot thank her enough for all of her efforts over the years. We wish her all the best in what we hope will be a long and happy retirement.
August 2007 The CDs 'Where I'm Coming From' from the recent projects at HMP Frankland and HMPYOI Low Newton in collaboration with The Sage Gateshead are now available for sale on our CDs page.
August 2007 For the last 12 years, the Music in Prisons team has hired a van to transport our musical equipment to and from projects. In the past, this was the best way to minimise our costs as projects were only being delivered intermittently. But now the team are delivering two or three projects every month and we really need a van not only to free their time up for better uses, but also to reduce the costs of delivering each project. To buy a second-hand van would cost £10,000. We are almost halfway there and have raised £4,500 but now we need your help! Could you make a donation to help us do this? Or maybe put on a fundraising event for us? If you would like to help, please contact Jo on 020 7733 3222 Thank you!
July 2007 Following two fantastic projects at HMP Frankland and HMPYOI Low Newton we are all eagerly awaiting the exhibition of photography and music from the projects which is being put together by the wonderful Lizzie Coombes into an installation at The Sage Gateshead. The exhibition will be open to the public from 23rd July to 4th August, so if you are in the Newcastle area please go along and see it!
April 2007 The Music in Prisons songbook and CD 'A Picture of Me' which was written with vulnerable women at HMPYOI Holloway has been short listed for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Education Award. We are really thrilled that the women’s hard and talented work has received recognition at this level.
March 2007 We are extremely excited to be launching our new website, which we hope will be even more interactive and make it even easier for you to find about exactly what Music in Prisons is doing. Please take your time to look around the site - there are lots of great new features, including upcoming performance dates, a new top 10 of our favourite recent songs and lots of information about how you can support our work.
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