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SUMMARY:NOISE SOLUTION - Improving life chances through Dubstep? Prove it!
  - Simon Glenister\, Director\, Noise Solution
DTSTART:20150120T163000Z
DTEND:20150120T180000Z
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CONTACT:Pamela Burnard
DESCRIPTION:Noise Solution is a 6 year old Social Enterprise that eschews 
 grant funding and operates on 100% earned income - it's sustainable. To do
  that we need to be able to prove to our customers (statutory organisation
 s like mental health or social services) that our arts interventions deliv
 er value to them. We need to be able to communicate success in a language 
 that those organisations understand. I'll be discussing what lessons were 
 drawn from 15 years working in the front line of youth work\, how we took 
 those lessons to develop an innovative model that brings together music te
 chnology and social media to engage and progress those that those agencies
  struggle to engage with and most importantly how we collate the impacts o
 f that work and present those successes (and failures) to our 'customers'.
 \n\n*Simon Glenister* founded Noise Solution in 2009 to use music technolo
 gy to create social impact. The social enterprise arose as a fusion of Sim
 on's own experiences working as a professional musician and also working w
 ith excluded young people. Simon identified that for the young people he w
 as working with music could be used\, particularly music technology\, to v
 ery rapidly create something tangible\, positive and credible. This experi
 ence helps to build self-confidence - the fundamental building block for i
 mproving lives. Noise Solution was established to develop this methodology
  of working with excluded people including people with mental health probl
 ems\, drug addictions and offending behaviour. Noise Solution has a number
  of highly skilled tutors led by Simon\, who also continues to perform int
 ernationally as a professional musician with the band Tunng.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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