E&E Newsletter

E&E Newsletter: September 2024 

We hope you have had a lovely summer! We're looking forward to seeing you back in the building very soon. Check out our recent Newsletter below and keep scrolling for current industry jobs & helpful websites.  

Light Night Leeds

The UK’s largest annual arts and light festival returns to Leeds City Centre for two nights on 24th and 25th October, showcasing spectacular artworks and captivating performances by local, national, and international artists, filling the city with light! They're looking for Visitor Support Volunteers, Event Support Volunteers, Photography / Videography Volunteers, and Social Media Content Creator Volunteers to join their team. Volunteers get first-hand experience of a large-scale outdoor event as well as getting up close to the artworks, supporting the local community, gaining skills, meeting like-minded people, and receiving some Volunteer Team Leeds goodies!

Fancy being part of Leeds' biggest festivals?

Volunteer Team Leeds is launching soon! This is a new era for volunteering in Leeds where we strive to become the best city for volunteering, a city that supports and celebrates volunteers like you. The new volunteer platform simplifies the process of getting involved, allowing you to create a profile and apply for opportunities with just a few clicks. Once joined up you can access training, view your shifts, send feedback, and track your personal development all in one place. With thousands of roles available across the council and new ones added to the platform regularly, there’s something for everyone.

To apply to volunteer at Light Night Leeds, or to browse other volunteering opportunities, please visit Volunteer Team Leeds.

Survival Guide Podcast: New Episode Coming Soon

Our podcast intern, Kashyap, is hard at work editing the next episode of our Survival Guide Podcast. This upcoming episode focuses on health and well being. Stay tuned for practical tips, expert interviews, and personal stories that will help you maintain a balanced and healthy lifestyle during your studies and beyond. 

Change the Record 

Change the Record is an eight-month learning programme for women (cis and trans) working in the music industries, supported by Sony Music.

About

Be part of a growing network of bold, ambitious and inspiring Northern women working in the music industries, developing your leadership skills together.

This programme invites you to explore and expand what leadership means to you. Does it look like nurturing and being a positive role model, paving the way, creating and inspiring change, or being more confident in your own career path?

Running from October 2024 to May 2025, you'll take part in:

• A community gathering
• Online workshops
• A weekend retreat
• A peer-to-peer coaching group
• You'll learn how to manage pressure, improve communication skills, assert influence, build financial sustainability and resilience, and make a lasting impact in your field.

You could work for a commercial institution, a local grassroots organisation or as a freelancer. You might be a promoter, agent, project manager, or event producer. Or maybe you work in marketing and PR, music education, talent development, or for a recording studio or record label.

You should be shaking things up in the music industries in some way, advocating for a better future. If you're passionate about making positive changes in your personal and professional life, then this is for you!

All participants will also receive a £400 development bursary to support your continued professional development and self-reflection beyond this programme, like paying for mentoring or coaching. Whatever will better equip you for the future.

Find out more and apply

Yorkshire Music Forum 

Yorkshire Music Forum was formed in 2017 working in artist and music industry development with a YMF Convention once a year.
Now in its 8th edition, the Convention has seen speakers including Jeremy Lascelles (Chrysalis Records), Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem), Korda Marshall (BMG) and panels on artist development, press and media, composition for film & TV, building careers in music and business development.

This year's event will take place at the Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds on Thursday the 10th of October 2024 and is free to attend.

Sign up for free here + keep up to date as we announce speakers joining us and the topics we will cover.

Look back on last year's event here.

Self Care for Musicians

Help Musicians are offering a series of free, guided self-care sessions to provide techniques to help with challenging times. The sessions are all hosted online and run on various dates from September - December. Please head to the Help Musicians website to find out more. 

Best wishes, 

The Employability and Enterprise Team 
Room 401 
EaE@lcm.ac.uk