So exciting to launch this month of free mental health events for musicians- check it out! 😃

Wonderful day yesterday recording with Kaleidoscope Orchestra Hallé St Peter's yesterday with this hun Dr Kate Blackstone #sessionorchestra

How do we navigate the 'endless possibility' around being a musician? Young Classical Artists Trust are offering free individual coaching sessions with Marion Friend MBE next week to explore this and more. Interested? More here: ycat.co.uk/Event/whats-ho… Marion Friend #MentalHealthMonth

Early career musicians said they want practical mental health advice from qualified people. At YCAT we responded to this by providing a Conscious Breathing Workshop with Dr Pippa Wheble: bit.ly/3MdAjHV Don't miss it - tomorrow at 2pm! BAPAM: Performing Arts Medicine Musicians' Union Help Musicians

If you studied music at uni in the last five years and were assessed in singing, please consider taking part in Ellie Barnard's important research!

Musicians! If you're looking for a way to organise your marketing that doesn't involve guesswork, screen addiction or a feeling of impending doom, check out this Comms 101 event on 23rd May. FREE with Polyphony Arts's Katie Manasse bit.ly/3wodH0K Young Classical Artists Trust @KtBeardsworth

Final call for boarding - looking forward to this free Digital Comms for Beginners session today at 2pm. (you don't have to be a musician - applicable to all artists looking to upskill or refresh their training!) @KtBeardsworth Polyphony Arts

Musicians! Creatives in academia! Would you like help building confidence with networking? We have a free event tomorrow with Laura Mulhern at 11am on Zoom. Sign up to join us! ycat.co.uk/Event/networki… Young Classical Artists Trust

The conflation of “universities” with one degree subject and linking of that one degree subject to one job is a result of reading sound bite after sound bit denigrating the value of HE generally and the humanities/social sciences specifically. 4/

It was really fun to talk to Polyphony Arts about my research last month! 🎧 Listen on: polyphonyarts.podbean.com

Wow, I’ve never heard it described as ‘identity foreclosure’ before but I wonder what age that happens to musicians (if it does, but I strongly suspect it does) and the effect it has on our future lives and choices…

Really great to be speaking to Sefton students about music careers and pathways. Messaging about sustainable lives and livelihoods in music should start young and I’m so proud to have been invited to share the message with 15-18 year olds! Liverpool Sound City Sefton Council

.Musicians' Union and BAPAM: Performing Arts Medicine have come together to produce a guide on how musicians working in education and teaching can build healthy routines into their own and their students’ practice in an effort to spark conversations around health and wellbeing musiciansunion.org.uk/working-perfor…

☀️Tune into your mental health!☀️ YCAT are teaming up with Musicians' Union, BAPAM: Performing Arts Medicine and Tonic Music for Mental Health to run our second month-long campaign for early-career musicians, putting mental health centre stage. Join us throughout April ➡️ bit.ly/mhm2023 #MentalHealthMatters

Through Young Classical Artists Trust Mental Health month we are offering a limited number of FREE 1-2-1 coaching sessions with Marion Friend MBE. Opportunities like this are rare so hurry for the last few spaces! ycat.co.uk/Event/individu… Marion Friend

At Young Classical Artists Trust we’re running a free mental health workshop tomorrow with Tonic Rider - specifically for early career musicians’ mental health concerns, but all welcome. Sign up via ycat.co.uk/Event/tonic-ri… to find out how to support yourself and others! #MusiciansMentalHealth

One of Tonic Rider’s excellent Peer Support Groups is now exclusively available to recent music graduates in the UK. Don’t delay signing up if you’re interested and please pass on to any music grads you know. Thanks to Help Musicians for supporting!

Musicians need self-belief & optimism despite poor labour market outcomes & high risk. But, we ask if being a musician akin to gambling, where optimism is, unusually, a negative trait Bold questions w/ Sally Sharp & Dr Maike Klein published in Musicae Scientiae ESCOM Society 🧵

Breaking my dormancy here to do some advertising... if you're a music tutor in W Yorks interested in music psych and the role it can play in understanding student motivation, Karen Burland and I are running a FREE 2hr workshop on 22nd July in Leeds at 4pm! t.ly/Bib6W