As the title says, if you would like to support CYMAZ and our work, you can now donate via text message using Vodafone’s JustTextGiving service. It’s free and all the money you donate goes to help CYMAZ deliver quality musical experiences for young people in Cornwall. For more details please go to our Donate to CYMAZ page.
Could you represent Cornwall and a festival in Ireland?
The search is on to find a song to represent Cornwall at the Pan Celtic Festival in Ireland in April 2012. A competition, the Kan rag Kernow, is being held in Cornwlal this autumn to find the winning Cornish song to go to Ireland.
Entries to the Kan rag Kernow competition should be newly composed and are welcomed in any genre of music. All songs must be written and performed in the Cornish language. Free help is available for writing lyrics in Cornish.
For further information and to access an entry form visit www.magakernow.org.uk/kanragkernow
The deadline for entries is 30th September.
Plymouth Music Zone have introduced a new range of short courses, Soundskills Specials, suited to school teachers, community musicians, music leaders and youth workers looking to develop skills within Music Technology, Vocal Leading and/or Music and Special Education. These short courses will be run on Saturday afternoons at Plymouth Music Zone starting in the Autumn.
Click the following link to download more information.
As you may be aware from previous posts, CYMAZ is moving to pastures new this month and we are currently in the process of relocating to new offices at Krowji in Redruth.
This means that we need to shut down all our old systems in Truro and re-set them up again at Redruth, which will result in a period of time when communications with us will be disrupted.
On Monday 18th April and Tuesday 19th April we will be unable to access e-mails (as our old e-mail server is shut down and everything transferred to our new one) and any e-mails you send us on these days may well be undelivered and bounce back to you, unread. We may also not be contactable by phone as it’ll be pot luck if you manage to catch anyone in the right office! For anything urgent during this period, or in case of emergency, our Director Jane Staffieri can be contacted on 07791 744718.
Our new address and telephone number are now on our CONTACTS page.
Please note that, while you may still be able to get hold of Core Team members beforehand, our first full working day at the new office will be Tuesday 26th April.
During April, we are relocating to new, larger offices at Krowji in Redruth and, as such, the CYMAZ Office will be closed from Wednesday 6th April until Monday 25th April.
During this period, we are unlikely to be able to pick up calls or messages left on our main Truro telephone number (01872 270074) so the best way to contact the staff team will be via e-mail, although we may experience a short disruption to e-mails as our system is transferred to a new server. Contact details for the staff team can be found on our CONTACTS page. In case of emergency our Director, Jane Staffieri, can be contacted on 07791 744718.
Any updates (including our new Redruth telephone number) will be posted here in our NEWS section.
IdeasTap is an arts charity established to help young, creative people at the start of their careers. As part of its funding responsibilities, the charity operates the Ideas Fund Innovators Programme.
The Fund offers ten awards of £1,000 in each application round (there are four per year), to young people between the ages of 16 and 25, who have a creative project they want to get off the ground. In the past, dance and film projects, music videos and photography collectives have been supported. Ideas should be inspiring, original, realistic and innovative.
Applications must demonstrate that the Fund will enhance the quality and ambition of their ideas and projects in ways that would not be possible without the support of the Fund and acknowledge that the project has not been done before.
Applications can be made at any time, however; all applications will be assessed in one of the four yearly rounds.
IdeasTap has announced its most recent deadline, 5 pm on 21st March 2011.
For more details go to Ideas Funds Innovators
Reporter Amanda Gough spent some time with the CYMAZ Team at the Port Eliot Festival in July and the resulting two page article has been printed in the December edition of Cornwall Life! Click the image below to view a pdf (377k) of the article.
The Live Launch of CYMAZ Radio also featured in the November 10th edition of The Cornishman and you can click the following link to see the online version on the This Is Cornwall website
Our 4th e-bulletin is now out, highlighting the work we’ve done over the summer and what we’re planning to do next.
You can download a copy in pdf format here or e-mail robin@cymaz.co.uk to ask to be put on our mailing list to receive regular updates.
Take a look at our new CYMAZ Gallery where we will be posting a visual record of our activities and the events that we have covered for CYMAZ Radio to complement our Radio Podcasts.
CYMAZ is recruiting now to fill several vacancies to support new projects that we are undertaking.
For further details on the opportunities, and to download an application pack, please click here to go to our Job Opportunities page.
