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Join us and Young Classical Artists Trust for an online Music Performance Anxiety workshop
For more information and to register > tonicmusic.co.uk/post/ycat24
#MusiciansMentalHealthMonth #TonicRider #Performance #Anxiety #MentalHealth #Wellbeing
really proud to have had my first time speaking at STUC congress be in support of Musicians' Union’s motion on valuing music education. class should not be a barrier to participation in music activity, nor should it be a barrier to a music career. we fight for roses too 🌹
We’ve been campaigning around streaming income for years now.
TODAY, the government finally convenes the whole industry to sit down and hash it out.
Another 6 month process, but a very important one.
I’ll be there.
The Ivors Academy will be negotiating alongside the
A big day for Musicians' Union & The Ivors Academy’s FixStreaming campaign and Tom Gray 🌹’s #BrokenRecord . Council of Music Makers are looking forward to speaking to Department for Culture, Media and Sport & Intellectual Property Office UK about how music makers deserve a better deal from streaming.
Off to represent 34,500 Musicians' Union members who deserve a better deal from music streaming. It’s the first Government, Intellectual Property Office UK & industry Creator Remuneration Group today and I’ve been waiting a long time to make the case formally to Ministers. ✊🎵
Take care of your career with these upcoming MU events!
• Digital Distribution Made Easy webinar for members in Scotland and Northern Ireland
• One to one advice sessions in Derry
• PAT Testing in Saltash
Learn more at themu.org/events
#BehindEveryMusician
Here is the fabulous Jo Cameron-Brown speaking for Musicians' Union motion asking to value music education #STUC24 Equity Equity Class Network @EquityGlasgow
Join us for a look at the challenges creative unions face with Fair Work and how it’s applied in our sectors at STUC Congress 2024
Featuring benlunn, Jo Cameron-Brown, Neil Bibby 🇺🇦 and more
👉 themu.org/STUCfringe
Lunch and refreshments provided
#STUC24
It's probably fair to say that stress is something we are all familiar with
Explore our guide to taking care of your state of mind and body while working as a musician
🔗 bit.ly/3PQfBC7
#StressAwarenessMonth
Just back from this excellent production SheffieldLyceum and I am happy to support Musicians' Union efforts to keep their music live!
Will you sign too?
megaphone.org.uk/petitions/nort…
We are very excited to announce our next big event on UBI and unions!
Panel:
John McDonnell MP
Vicky Blake/Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social- Leeds Uni UCU
Jonathan Rhys Williams/Jonathan Rhys Williams- Lawyer GMB, Co-founder of UBI Lab Wales.
Plus others
Union member or not, please join! ubilabnetwork.org/events/ubi-lab…
☀️Musicians' Mental Health Month is back!☀️ Young Classical Artists Trust are teaming up again with Musicians' Union , BAPAM: Performing Arts Medicine and Tonic Music for Mental Health, and this year we're focussing on Musicians' Performance Anxiety!
Learn more: ycat.co.uk/news/musicians…
This April Musicians' Union are marking Musicians Mental Health Month. Check out Help Musicians website or phone the number below for more info on #musicmindsmatter
#mentalhealth awareness
#mentalhealth
#MentalHealthMatters
#MentalHealthSupport
📢 Calling all joint MU / National Education Union members!
Stop by the MU's stand at #NEU2024 and enter to win a Roland TD-02K electronic drum kit for your school!
T&Cs apply
#BehindEveryMusician
So it’s public now. 😥 My husband is a member of the #Orchestra of Welsh National Opera where it’s proposed they go to part-time contracts as of next April. I have tried to bang WNO’s drum since the Arts Council England cuts, but the attention has been elsewhere...🧵musiciansunion.org.uk/news/mu-respon…