Festival50 is part of Chetham’s School of Music’s celebration of fifty years of creative education, accessibility and diversity. In 1969, students – including the first female and international students in a 300 year school history – joined Chetham’s by audition. That small musical revolution formed a new co-educational specialist music school with far-reaching results. In 2019, we celebrate that moment of positive change with our wider community in Festival50. 
Send initial expressions of interest to: [email protected], briefly outlining your organisation/group and the kind of work they hope to put forward for Festival50 - dance pieces, musical or vocal performances (15 minutes maximum duration) or photographic/art works for exhibition in public spaces. Your proposals don’t need to be brand-new or unique to the Festival, just a creative expression that represents your group and responds to the Festival theme.
Your work/s will need to be ready in time for October 2019. The Festival50 weekend (20 - 21 October 2019) opens Chetham’s School of Music’s unique performance spaces to showcase a range of creative communities and their musical, dance or visual art works. Taking the School as a central point, Chetham’s School of Music invite community or educational groups within a 15-mile radius to join in by helping gather 50 creative responses to the Festival theme: joined in/joined up: Whether inspired by moments of enlightenment and change in the past 50 years, or aspirations for the next, bring your group’s ideas and identities to share the stage.
For further information, visit: www.chethams.com/outreach, or email: [email protected]