Mary and Max talk about opportunities and challenges in developing a workforce ready to deliver more diverse, new ways of working.
They will share learning from their Youth Music funded “Pathways” project, delivered in Waltham Forest, Hackney and Newham, which focused on workforce development through active learning. The session will look at some of the benefits and considerations of supporting your existing workforce to diversify practice, as well as exploring the opportunities created by engaging new practitioners and holistically building a more diverse hub workforce.
Speakers
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Mary Mycroft
Waltham Forest Music Service
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Max Wheeler
Mary Mycroft
Waltham Forest Music Service
Mary Mycroft has spent over 20 years working in music education, a qualified secondary teacher who has led music at every key stage and for numerous schools and Services. She has been Head of Waltham Forest Music Service since 2015 where she is committed to ensuring all young people can access high quality musical experiences. Mary is a violin/viola player and singer working with nu-soul duo, Flyt, and is currently working towards a MSc in Leadership and Management.
Max Wheeler
Max Wheeler is a producer and DJ who has released albums on Gilles’ Peterson’s Brownswood, Tru Thoughts and First Word Records. As half of Anushka he has performed live from Saigon to Siberia via Texas and Berlin with over 10m streams online. He has worked with artists ranging from members of Kraftwerk to Grime legend Trim, also remixing artists from Snoop Dogg to Gorgon City. Over the last couple of years he has built a healthy online audience with his weekly analog hardware studio jams recorded onto reel to reel tape – and just this month launching his own label ’Near Future’.
He has been an educator for nearly 20 years, starting with Youth Clubs in West Yorkshire and Lancashire and currently the author and Programme Director of the VIP Studio Sessions online learning platform for Charanga, winner of the Music Teacher Award for Best Digital Resource in 2018 and currently in use by 40,000 secondary school students in the UK and around the world. During the pandemic Max worked on a small team developing a new accessible online DAW ‘YuStudio’ which is available free of charge for all Youth Music Projects and now available to all Charanga students (currently over 11,000 schools). Max also delivers CPD, training and workforce development on Music Technology, Engagement and Inclusion to a number of Music Hubs and Community organisations around the UK.