Musicians Without Borders in collaboration with Leeds School of Arts present a 5-day “Welcome Notes” training programme. We are looking for facilitators and co-creators working across music and performing arts to participate in this unique training opportunity.

For 25 years, Musicians Without Borders (MWB) has been using music as a tool for personal, social, and political change. For over two decades, the organisation has developed a methodology that combines music pedagogy and community leadership.This methodology is used in post-conflict and conflict regions around the world to counter the destructive effects of war, violence, and displacement - in countries including Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, across the Balkans, as well as with refugees on the move in the Netherlands and across Europe.

This training opportunity aims to share this methodology with facilitators and co-creators working across music and performing arts, to equip you with the skills and expertise to work with vulnerable people, with a focus on people undergoing migration, forced displacement, and refugee status.

We are looking for enthusiastic music and arts practitioners with a range of levels of experience in the community arts sector, and in particular in working with people directly affected by conflict or with lived experience of forced migration. Your practice may be emerging or well-established (or somewhere in between). We would also like to receive applications from people who have a desire to bring music practice into their existing community work.

We have up to 25 places on the course, and trainees will be selected according to their application.

The cost of the training course is £500. We are able to offer 5 funded places on the programme (excluding travel expenses and accommodation), to applicants directly affected by conflict or with lived experience of forced migration, and to students or staff of Leeds Becket University. The learning will be collaborative and include group work.

For more information visit www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/larc/musicians-without-borders