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Topic: Radical Acts of Community Music

What are your acts of, in and through community music?

Community music in the UK has deep roots in the 20th century community arts movement, an explicitly political movement. We are curious about how those radical beginnings show up in community music today. From the quiet, everyday acts, the small moments that carry a radical spirit to big, explicitly political projects; we want to hear about them all!

We welcome contributions from practitioners, organisers, researchers, and anyone involved in community music. Join us in celebrating the loud and the quiet, the bold and the subtle ways that community music sparks change.

Need a spark to get started? Here are some ideas you might write about:

- Engagement/pleasure over technique
- Sharing food
- Community music in unusual spaces
- Informal work in formal settings
- Access and inclusion as radical acts
- Music that supports social movements
- Music-making as activism
- Music-making as a human right
- Small, everyday acts of resistance
- Community music as a feminist practice
- Building community power through music
- Making music with marginalised communities
- Community music and capitalism
- Community music as climate justice
- Community music against the rise of the far-right

Send us your radical acts and let’s inspire each other to keep shaking things up!
If you have a resource you'd like to share, or an idea for a story, article or interview for this issue, then please get in touch with our editor, Claire Francis on claire.francis@soundsense.org. You can share your thinking and practice in words, pictures, audio and/or video; find further information and advice on contributing to Sounding Board at soundsense.org/resources-and-publications.