The Epstein Files were supposed to be released 123 days ago.

We want your submissions for the upcoming issue of Sounding Board! You can share your thinking and practice in words, pictures, audio or video. If you have any questions, please email our Communications Manager claire.francis@soundsense.org & find more info here: www.soundsense.org/DB/resources...

Alison McGowan is a puppeteer and a child psychotherapist; Nic Golightly is a graphic artist who dabbles in design and illustration. Both are associate artists with Blue Cabin and have been paired together as part of our ‘buddying’ system.

Join us next week for our first Sound Sense Gathering of 2026 hosted by board member Carol Bowden. We'll be idea-sharing around what we can do as community music practitioners to support mental health and wellbeing, for ourselves and for others. All welcome! fb.me/e/5xs1GLMmZ

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

How can a charity like Blue Cabin gather data on energy usage and sustainability when we all work from home? Find out how we overcame this and two other challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey: wearebluecabin.com/latest/3-cha...

3 challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey - Blue Cabin

Two of our sustainability champions, Amy Armstrong and Jane Gray, share three challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey so far.

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It was an honour to represent @bluecabin.bsky.social for this prestigious award. The #CYPNowAwards showcase innovative and outstanding practice in the children's services sector. We were rubbing shoulders with amazing people and organisations.

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Three of our team, Lucy Ridley, Katie Doherty and Carol Bowden, were absolutely honoured to pick up a Children & Young People Now award on Friday for our This is the Place project. #CYPNowAwards @bowders.bsky.social

Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🎉

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎉🎉This is the Place has been named as the winner in this year's Children & Young People Now awards' Early Years category! 🎉🎉 We're so proud of everyone involved in this project; thank you Children & Young People Now for this wonderful recognition 💛

Blue Cabin's Care-Experienced Consultants challenge, shape and strengthen our work, and help make sure that care-experienced voices are heard. Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role. wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk

What it means to be a Care-Experienced Consultant - Blue Cabin

Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha shares her perspective on her time as part of Blue Cabin's team of Care-Experienced Consultants.

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Piercing The Sky is a celebration of artwork and creative writing by care-experienced young artists in HMP Deerbolt and we’re proud to be able to share artworks from it. You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk

Piercing the Sky virtual exhibition - Blue Cabin

Creative Aid is a co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.

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It's been great working with Blue Cabin to build their bank of free resources. You can find them here!

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Want to know more about using music to help young babies and children form attachments and trust? We've created a bank of free resources which you can find here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/ear... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social

Issue three of Sounding Board, the Journal of Community Music, is out now, and it includes a look at Blue Cabin's use of supervision with creative practitioners. Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5... @bowders.bsky.social

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · last yr.

🎵 Last chance to book! Learn how to help babies and children experience the benefits of music-making. Our training day on early years music-making takes place on Monday in Darlington. Have you booked your ticket?🎵 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social

You can book for this year's training day here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social

This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making

Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children

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Young men in HMP Deerbolt have been working with artists to create their own exhibition and artists' book. Find out more about their work and share your responses, which will be fed back to the artists. Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...

Pages of my life: Art, care and conversation - Blue Cabin

A free, online event to explore artworks produced by young men in Deerbolt Prison.

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There's still time to book your space for this training opportunity 🎶 Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶 Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · last yr.

Our training day will give you practical tips to take away, and will boost your knowledge on the benefits of early years music-making. Find out more and book your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th...

September issue of our monthly Bulletin Board newsletter is out now! - Join the Sound Sense Board - Musicians with autism research steering group - Contribute to Sounding Board journal - Community music training, jobs & resources Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views

Did you miss our Community Music Now event back in March? Catch up on moments, learnings and perspectives from the two-day event in our latest Sounding Board journal - members can log in and read it here: www.soundsense.org/resources-an...

Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for some playful music-making, learning, and conversation 🎶

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · last yr.

🎵 Would you like to learn how music can support attachment and development in babies and children? We're holding a training day on 22 September in Darlington with musicians Carol Bowden and Katie Doherty. Book your spot here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/train... @bowders.bsky.social

🎉 We're finalists!!! 🎉 Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉This is the Place, our early years music-making programme with Darlington Council and Redcar and Cleveland Council, is shortlisted in this year's #CYPNowAwards!🎉 You can see all the brilliant finalists here: cypnowawards.com/childrenandy... @bowders.bsky.social

In North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compositions. creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-... @bowders.bsky.social

We’re working with Groundswell Arts to roll out their brilliant Sing Our Story project with care-experienced families here in the North East 🎵 Here’s an update on the first songs, from musician Carol Bowden. wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti... @youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social

Putting your heart in a song - Blue Cabin

Here in North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compos...

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It was a joyful, humbling, gorgeous experience to work with the foster carers to write a song about the children. Here's my thoughts if you fancy a short read ❤️

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · last yr.

Here in the North East, musicians are working with care-experienced families to produce personalised songs for babies and children to keep. Here’s Blue Cabin associate artist Carol Bowden with an insight into the songwriting process: wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti... @bowders.bsky.social

All 7 episodes of The Community Musician in Conversation are now LIVE on The Community Musician Podcast. Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️ You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.

The Community Musician in Conversation is going LIVE!!! I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria. You can listen by following the link in my bio!

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎵In Darlington and in Redcar & Cleveland, foster carers and the babies and children in their care are experiencing the joy and benefits of making music together 🎶

Have a read about what I get up to. It's the most rewarding, inspiring, loving group of adults and children to work with. I look forward to singing, playing, chatting and laughing with them every week ❤️🎶❤️

Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Did you know that we run regular music-making sessions, designed especially to help care-experienced babies & children develop stronger relationships? Musician & Blue Cabin artist Carol Bowden explains more: wearebluecabin.com/latest/this-... @youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social

Evaluation shouldn't be "done on" but "done with". Read my blog for @wearebluecabin on working together to design evaluation for varying projects. wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...

The people and passion in evaluation - Blue Cabin

When Blue Cabin partnered with tialt // there is an alternative to develop a new way of measuring our impact, we wanted to make sure that people across the entire organisation were involved – includin...

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This is going to be a cracking event for practitioners and researchers working in community music. Get yourself booked on! Community Music Now Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...