Future Histories: Exploring the History of Black Theatre in London

To celebrate Black History Month in October, cpd25 is pleased to invite you on a unique tour of Goldsmiths Special Collections. (Goldsmiths is part of the University of London.)  The tour will be led by archivist and library manager, Lesley Ruthven.

FUTURE HISTORIES is one of the first national repositories for African, Asian and Caribbean performing arts in the UK.  

Click on link below for more information:

Black Theatre History

The Musical Experiences of Blind and Partially-Sighted People (Research Project)

If you're a visually impaired musician, or have any amongst your acquaintance, please take a moment to read about this new research project.

"The Visually-impaired musicians' lives project provides an investigation into the musical practices, participation and learning experiences of blind and partially-sighted people. It is a research project based at the Institute of Education, University of London, in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and the Royal Academy of Music funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Further information can be found on the project website at http://vimusicians.ioe.ac.u

"The project is still running a survey for all types of visually-impaired musicians, including instrumentalists, singers, composers, music teachers and others; whether top professionals, amateurs or beginners. If you have any contacts or know anyone with contacts to visually-impaired musicians you’d be very welcome to forward information about the project and the survey to them.
"The online version of the survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RJHBGNH

or via the link on our project homepage.  It is also possible to arrange to complete the survey via telephone or Skype.

Please contact the principal investigator of the project, David Baker, for further details.

Contact details:

Dr David Baker,
"Visually-impaired musicians' lives" project,
Institute of Education, University of London,
20 Bedford Way,
London WC1H 0AL.

Tel: 01753 524740.

E-mail: David.Baker@ioe.ac.uk

Jewish Music Institute

The Jewish Music Institute is an independent institute based at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.  An excellent resource for finding out about Jewish music, and the library staff are keen for their collections to be known about.

From the Jewish Music Institute's homepage:-

"We are the Jewish Music Institute. We curate, educate and celebrate – bringing to life this rich seam in world culture. Our mission encompasses the music of the Jewish people wherever they are and wherever they have been, preserving and developing this great heritage for the benefit of present and future generations.

We are an independent arts organisation, established in March 2000 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after 18 years of successful operation under the name of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust. JMI is a national focus bringing Jewish music to the mainstream British cultural arena for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures."