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Watch. Wait. Wonder: What children teach us through sound

Dr Clare Seymour of diversitybuds

Written by Dr Clare Seymour of diversitybuds   I recently had the joy of attending a presentation by Dr Jessica Pitt at the MEHEM (Music…

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THE NEST EP

Chris Dowding

“How do songs emerge from the early years process? Who is involved? Who is the composer of a riff born in a workshop context surrounded…

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Memories from First Light Festival with Suffolk Artlink

Sue Parr

Image Credits to Suffolk Artlink and Lewis Wickwar. A beautiful sunny day! Me and Natalie Willis met at Stonecutters Way and filled our cars with…

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Rethinking my connection to movement and music

Nat Whitney

Hello I’m Nat and I’m an audio-visual participatory artist and between September 2023 and March 2024 I was a trainee early years music facilitator with…

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“It felt like it was filling my heart and soul.”

Sophie Fox

  Earlier this year we spoke to Bella who was one of the participants who took park in our Germination project. Germination was a professional…

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Making Connections – Acorn Network

Sophie Fox

Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk Artlink and Suffolk Libraries co-curated this network day, sharing their ongoing projects around early years music in community settings. The theme…

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Subtle Sounds and Serendipitous Connections

Xenia Horne

Reflections on visiting a nursery setting as part of Germination project. I love the serendipitous connections that Germination is facilitating and the reconnecting too. It…

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Sonic Possibilities – Remembering the art of play

Charly Jolly

I came to the Germination project with great enthusiasm, armed with my clarinet and voice with a decade of classical training under my belt which…

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Submitting to the present moment

Bella Askew

The training days and play days at PRIMEYARC in Great Yarmouth were simultaneously inspiring and energising. They prepared us in a very hands on way…

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