This year BedMID is engaging people in the local community in a range of music-led projects that explore some of the issues faced by women held in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. This work aims to create a space for vulnerable and marginalised groups in Bedfordshire to make music together whilst raising awareness about immigration
Open Call for Artists’ Proposals An opportunity for an artist with an interest in participation to develop a new artwork with the public, amongst the fun and hub bub of Bedford’s River Festival and other cultural events in 2018. We are a contemporary arts organisation and Arts Council England national portfolio organisation that has been
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us collect survey data at our events in Bedfordshire. If you like talking with people, have a good attention to detail and a passion for the arts, we’d love to hear from you. You can register to apply here via Vconnect.
BedMID (Bedford Music in Detention) is delighted to announce two exciting new opportunities! Artist call out for new commission from BedMID A new music or music-led commission for an artist whose practice explores aspects of identity, migration and working with detainees or refugees. The commission requires the artist to involve participants in the process
BedMID (Bedford Music in Detention) is working with artist Joanne Hudson Lett and Friends of Refugees Bedfordshire to create a series of new songs that will be recorded for a new CD and performed during Refugee Week in June 2018. Participants will use archive material from BedMID’s past work with detainees in the Yarl’s Wood
Last month, a film crew from our Clubhouse funders, The Health Lottery, came to have a sneak peak at our Clubhouse film-set and hang out with our resident filmmakers on Chester & Carlisle Roads Bedford. Despite the rain, they’ve made a rather lovely film about the project… and here it is!
We are delighted to have partnered with The Philharmonia Orchestra on their new initiative to reach new audiences in Bedford.
Earlier this month we took part in Artsmark Celebration Week, which took place between the 9th – 13th October 2017.
We are delighted to introduce The Frog by William Rounce, a new public artwork at Riverside Square in Bedford.
We are happy to announce James Mall as our new Marketing and Development Manager. James comes to us fresh from a marketing and design background having run his own signage and design company and working for a web and design company here in Bedford. As well as having a degree in marketing from The University