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New Gen and Making Waves to perform at Snape Maltings
New Gen and Making Waves will join hundreds of young people to raise Snape Malting's Concert Hall roof and celebrate the power of music on S
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Feb 23 min
Independent Venue Week 2024
Through our youth music projects, we know how important the local music scene is. That’s why we’re shining a spotlight on some of the venues
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Oct 20, 20233 min
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
The Phoenix Project’s art show - Take a Walk on the Wild Side - opened at the Hive in Ipswich on World Mental Health Day, 10th October...
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Aug 14, 20234 min
Police Songwriting Project
New Gen completed a songwriting project in summer 23 that was sprung off a conversation we had with PC Bevan. We shared these songs in...
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May 5, 20233 min
New Gen Spring Term
Read on to find out what New Gen got up to last term. New Gen continued the recording section of their Mental Health EP at the start of...
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May 4, 20232 min
Handford Hall Creative Club
Check out this song we created with the young people at Hanford Hall Primary School as part of the Creative Club after school project!...
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Apr 28, 20232 min
ASPIRE MUSIC PROJECT – EASTER 2023
During the Easter holidays Ipswich Community Media ran a Music Project at South Street Studios in collaboration with Suffolk County...
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Apr 24, 20232 min
South Street Kids perform!
Saturday April 1st was the South Street Kid's 'I.P.S.W.I.C.H' showcase at Eastern Angles theatre and what a day it was! Each letter of...
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Apr 21, 20233 min
New Gen Launch 'Mind Over Matter' EP
In February the young people from our weekly music project New Gen launched their EP ‘Mind Over Matter’ - a culmination of four months of...
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Dec 1, 20222 min
Making Waves Success Story
Our Making Waves project continues to be successful in supporting at-risk children and young people experiencing difficult challenges in...
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Nov 12, 20222 min
Aspire Music Project - Summer 2022
Supporting young people through music and creativity During the summer Ipswich Community Media ran a 6-week Music Project at South Street...
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Aug 11, 20225 min
New Gen - a term full of performance
By Kristin Caswell, New Gen Session Leader & Out Loud Music Project Coordinator Photo credit: John Ferguson This term for New Gen has...
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Aug 11, 20225 min
South Street Kids - Check out what we've been up to this term...
By Kristin Caswell, SSK Session leader & Out Loud Music Project Coordinator It's been a busy time for South Street Kids this term with...
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May 2, 20221 min
New Gen at May Day '22
From Snape Maltings to Mayday; New Gen pulled it out of the bag on Sunday! 'Ipswich Mayday was an amazing experience and it was wonderful...
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Nov 30, 20212 min
What it's like making music. Making music for yourself vs for other people
It can feel like a surge of adrenaline that turns the chair you're sitting on into a rocket. When you're making music for yourself , it...
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Oct 18, 20212 min
New Gen at Latitude Festival
Suffolk’s renowned music festival, Latitude, is unique to other festivals for many reasons; whether it’s the idyllic location set in a...
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Oct 15, 20212 min
South Street Kids learn to Beatbox
On Saturday 9th October we were lucky enough to have Natty Sobhee run a beat box and lyric writing with our South Street Kids. Natty is...
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Aug 31, 20212 min
New Gen Bessie Turner Trip
Local artist, and Smokehouse alumni, Bessie Turner was back in Suffolk last weekend to perform at the infamous Snape Maltings. As part of...
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Aug 18, 20213 min
New Gen Black Panther Brunch
New Gen, a project created by Ipswich Community Media in 2019 and now run in collaboration with Out Loud Music, helps to unite young,...
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Nov 12, 20204 min
Making Waves Success Stories
Our Making Waves project has been going from strength to strength due to the hard work and enthusiasm our young people have been showing....
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