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To round off Women’s History Month, we wanted to shine a spotlight on two of our incredibly inspiring female music leaders, Barbara Pugliese and Naomi Jackson.
This year we performed in the London Jazz Festival as part of The London Line-Up, presenting young emerging artists and youth music ensembles to show just how much talent this city has to offer.
“I feel like writing songs really helps get my emotions out, and getting my anger, sadness or joy out.”
Over the last few months we have been busy in Bexley, with four community and school songwriting projects.
This summer we were back working with long-term partner Bromley Children Looked After to offer a summer school for young people in Bromley aged 17 to 22 who have left the care system.
The summer term was a busy few weeks for us at ArtsTrain, delivering rap workshops and songwriting sessions for schools in Bromley.
“I came into ArtsTrain as a drummer alone, but within a few months, I was beginning to write lyrics and never looked back.”
Since the start of 2022 we’ve had the pleasure of working with JusB, an independent, community-based charity serving young people in Bromley.
We’re incredibly excited to announce that we have secured our funding as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation for 2023-2026.
This half-term we teamed up once again with our long-term partner and autism charity CASPA, who are based in Bromley.
We’re proud to announce that we’ve joined forces with 16 other local cultural organisations to form the Bexley Culture Network.
This autumn we worked with schools across Bexley and Bromley to form 2022’s London Jazz Festival Collective.
“When I need to get things off my chest or I need to stop thinking I just write lyrics.”
We've very excited to announce that our collectives from Bexley and Bromley will be performing at the 30th London Jazz Festival next week!
London Jazz Festival returns for its 30th annual edition in the city and we’re excited to have two groups taking part this autumn for our twelfth festival.
“It’s very beautiful to be in a room where you assist and witness people dropping ideas, coming out of their shells and expressing their state of mind and emotions through lyrics and music.”
In July we returned to the Churchill Theatre in Bromley for our first showcase and gig since the pandemic.
As part of the Platinum Jubilee Cultural Programme in Bromley, we partnered with Bromley Council and BETTER libraries
A group of young people from our Bromley Academy programme visited Subfrantic Studios on Sunday 17th July.
We’ve been working with independent, community based youth charity JusB for several years now…
Thursday 7th July sees our first ever Live & Unreleased show take place at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.
“Music and creativity is definitely needed at this time for self-expression and as a group healing process.”
Over the past few years, we have teamed up with schools to deliver music workshops to pupils.
In March we teamed up with Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN) and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley to host a free, one day professional development workshop.
Tuesday 8th March was the annual, worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day, under the theme #breakthebias…
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, the ArtsTrain team - Alice, Annabell and Jennifer - have each selected five of their favourite female indentifying artists in this curated IWD playlist.
ArtsTrain recently teamed up with our friends at the incredible charity CASPA for three activity days over February 14th, 15th and 17th.