October 2025 Basket

Music & Arts in Action has released their latest online issue, “Music Education Among Refugee and Migrant Youths: Sharing, Belonging, Including.”

The Wits Innovation Centre, in partnership with the Machine Intelligence & Neural Discovery Institute at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, has launched the pilot project AI & African Music, expanding AI datasets and applications into African contexts.

Two new books examine the use of music therapy with people who have experienced forced displacement, highlighting the importance of historical and contextual knowledge of how music can both help and harm people.

After budget cuts, a U.S. school is getting creative to help more students participate in music.

Save The Music has announced the launch of their Sonidos Latinos Latin Percussion Core Grant to support classrooms in integrating Latino music traditions into their curriculum.

Over the 2025–26 performance season, saxophonist, composer, and educator Steven Banks will bring his new initiative, Come As You Are, to communities across the U.S. and abroad.

On September 16, an ICE sweep in North Portland, Oregon, USA resulted in the abduction of several family members of BRAVO Youth Orchestras students, including Rafael Arriola Caballero, a father of six and resident of North Portland for over a decade.

The European Union Youth Orchestra will host their annual Model Sharing Symposium on October 13–17.

In 2018, Big Noise developed a module for undergraduate students with staff at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.