HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST
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Mission Statement
HMDT Music creates inspiring arts projects to enrich learning and transform lives. Dedicated to breaking down barriers to participation, we offer all young people and their communities, particularly those with the least engagement, sustained artistic programmes together with life-changing performance opportunities to increase skills, raise aspirations and discover the joys of creativity. Working with world class artists and leading experts, HMDT Music, twice winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education and the 2020 Music and Drama Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, increases access to high quality musical experiences by commissioning new performance works created through an artistic fellowship between artists and participants, developing resources, creating enduring partnerships, and sustaining an extensive outreach programme to schools and the community in areas of significant disadvantage and deprivation. CORE VALUES Artistic Excellence: We create education projects and productions of the highest quality in the belief that everyone should have access to the very best that the arts can offer. Innovation: We respond to the needs of individuals and communities by linking people and art forms in imaginative ways; challenging audiences and allowing artists to take creative risks. We strive to be courageous by highlighting and sharing untold stories, cultures and historic events, building awareness and celebrating the voices and dignity of those who would otherwise not be heard. Community: We foster a strong sense of community and personal growth by creating arts projects, which raise aspirations and expectations. Inclusiveness: Diversity is at the heart of everything we stand for and believe in. We are committed to creating inclusive and accessible projects exploring a variety of music styles, genres and art forms, which value the people and communities with whom we work.
About This Cause
HMDT Music, twice winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education and recent winner of the Excellence in Musical Theatre Award, is a leader in creating inspiring arts projects for young people, which enrich learning and transform lives. Working with world class artists and leading experts, HMDT increases access to high quality musical experiences which raise aspirations, achievement, confidence, skills and creativity, by commissioning new performance works, developing resources, creating enduring partnerships, and sustaining an extensive outreach programme to schools and the community in areas of disadvantage and deprivation. Established in 1995 originally to work in Hackney, HMDT Music has grown into a highly-respected national charity working in several areas across England. Its three core areas of work are: THE SATURDAY PROGRAMME HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme serves over 350 students aged 6 months – 25 years on 30 Saturdays during each academic year. Started in 1995, it remains a vibrant and unique Saturday offering in Hackney, providing a spectrum of individual projects involving guest visits and work with leading artists, alongside the continually expanding regular classes and programmes designed to enrich the lives of young people through music making. A source of local community pride, the programme also attracts students from across London and beyond. The Saturday Programme includes The Music Box (under 5s programme), The Fledglings (for reception age students), I Can Sing! (Music Theatre Programme), CYMH Instrumental School, Music Treehouse (SEN/D Programme) and The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. The programme is supported by an extensive Bursary programme which supports students in financial need. IN SCHOOLS For over 25 years, HMDT Music has been creating unique, award-winning projects for schools since 1995. These include thematic commissions of new works for young people to perform supported by arts-embedded cross-curricular teaching resources. Our commissions include: 2020 Music and Drama Education Award Winner 'Trench Brothers' commemorating ethnic minority soldiers in WW1, the recent 'STEM Sisters' celebrating historical STEM women, 'Hear Our Voice' - international project commemorating children's Holocaust voices, 'Shadowball' - black baseball players and their jazz compatriots, 'The Brown Bomber' - boxing and dance, 'The Hackney Chronicles' - four periods of local history, 'The World Was All Before Them' - how parents came to Hackney, as well as RPS Award winners 'On London Fields' community opera and 'Confucius Says' celebrating the Bejing Olympics,. Our other work in schools includes bespoke workshops, creative education projects, after-school clubs , whole school Commemoration Days and a wealth of education materials, all of which use the arts across the curriculum to enrich learning. ONE SPIRIT One Spirit is a music and creative arts based project specialising in working with young people in the criminal justice system, focused on those both in custody and recently released from custody. The restorative based intervention programme has been running since 2010 and maintains a non-reoffending rate of 85%. Using music, drama and creative media to engage participants in learning activities, One Spirit improves their self-confidence and self-efficacy, personal and interpersonal skills, and functional and employability skills. Its overarching, holistic aim is to help them to envisage, believe in and realise, a more positive future.