Reaching Out: Who's Not in the Room?

What is Reaching Out?

Reaching Out is a training, development and future-thinking network hosted by Brighter Sound and More Music.

It’s aimed at project managers, programme managers and anyone else planning and managing inclusive music activity for children and young people across the North West.

At Reaching Out you get to:

• Share ideas, approaches and problem-shoot plans for future delivery of music projects with children and young people
• Stay connected with other programme and project managers working across the region
• Find ways to support each other through signposting, sharing resources and identifying potential partnerships

What’s involved

This time, we'll be joined by Disability Lead at The Music Works Lee Holder. Lee will share their experiences and open a conversation around the important question: "Who's Not in the Room?".

• What are the barriers (visible and invisible) that impede people taking part?
• What does authentic outreach look like?
• What is driving our desire to involve others?

How to join

The session will take place on Zoom.

Once you sign up, we'll email you the link.

If there is anything we can do to help you access this session, please let us know.

New to Reaching Out?

We're always open to new sign-ups and love to see new faces. To find out more get in touch with rachel@brightersound.com.

Reaching Out is a partnership project between More Music and Brighter Sound, with funding from Youth Music.

Lee Holder is a self-professed Music Hacker and has been using music technology to overcome their own challenges to making music for the last 35 years. They have led and performed in numerous bands, run a record label, created multimedia art installations and worked as a DJ & club promoter since the 1990s, creating temporary autonomous zones through music for those who occupy the fringes and subcultures of society.

Lee now uses this experience to empower young people in their musical journeys as Disability Lead for The Music Works, exploring new and abandoned technologies to remove barriers to making music for those with the most complex needs and advocating for inclusion in the creative arts for those who face the biggest barriers.

They are also board members for Drake Music and Sound Sense.Lee builds technology that doesn't yet exist and hacks technology to do things it wasn't intended to in the name of inclusive music making, and has recently worked with Drake Music and Sony to develop body & face tracking instruments along with exploring RFID tags and lasers as a way of making playful music interfaces.

Lee also runs Bleephaus, an organisation that works with festivals and public facing events to put this technology directly into the hands of young people to plant seeds of musical exploration and creativity and encourage the next generation of electronic performers, composers and producers.