United Kingdom

Earlier this year, the BBC launched Get Singing, the largest U.K.-wide music education program in a decade.

Fifteen youth music spaces across the UK are no longer at risk of closing thanks to critical support from Spotify and Youth Music.

Across the U.K., choirs are coming together to raise their voices for change.

Applications are now open for a free training opportunity in the UK for arts facilitators interested in broadening their methodological toolkit. The program, run in tandem by Leeds Beckett University and Musicians Without Borders, will train participants in the working principles of the MWB music leadership programs that serve people impacted by war and armed conflict.

The Jameel Arts & Health Lab—the brainchild of the World Health Organization (WHO), New York University’s Steinhardt School, the non-profit organization Culturunners, and philanthropic foundation Community Jameel—was launched earlier this year with an ambitious mission: to research how the arts can improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in some of the most challenging places around the world.