BPI Equality Sessions: International Day of Persons with Disability
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BPI Equality Sessions: International Day of Persons with Disability - Disability and the Music Industry
(Zoom link below)
The latest BPI Equality Session will take place on Thursday 2nd December (4pm-6pm), which falls just ahead of International Day of Persons with Disability (3 December) and will focus on Disability and The Music Industry.
The Equality Sessions are presented in partnership with BPI’s Equity & Justice Advisory Group (EJAG), and this edition will be in collaboration with Attitude is Everything, which seeks to improve deaf and disabled people's access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry. The event has been curated by BPI EJAG member Ben Price of Harbourside Artist Management, who will be sharing his own experiences in the music industry as well as data and insights.
Here's what we have lined up for this session:
Event Chair: MJ Olaore - Chief Operating Officer, BPI
Speaker: Ben Price - Founder & Artist Manager, Harbourside Artist Management
Interview with Suzanne Bull MBE - Founder, Attitude is Everything
Panel: Exploring ways to support artists with access requirements and remove barriers
Moderator:
Rich Legate - Artist Development Manager, Attitude is Everything
Speakers:
Elle Chante - Artist
Ruth Lyon - Artist
Panel: How to make sure your business is not excluding disabled talent
Moderator:
Paul Hawkins - Head of Volunteering & Skills Development, Attitude is Everything
Speakers:
Amanda Maxwell - Music Manager to Ellie Prohan & Chair of UK Music Future
Andy Edwards - UK Music executive/Music business consultant.
Mackinlay Ingham - NOW Music Project Coordinator at Sony Music
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About our Speakers:
Ben Price - Founder & Artist Manager, Harbourside Artist Management
Ben Price is the founder of Harbourside Artist Management, a talent agency active in supporting artist with disability. In 2021 Ben wrote about his experiences of working in the music industry with a non-disclosed disability. He is now an advocate for disability inclusion in the music industry and sits on the BPI’s Equity and Justice Advisory Group, an independent board of respected music industry professionals, who collectively advocate for the progression of the Equality, Diversity and Intersectional agenda across the sector and contribute to steering the BPI’s Equality, Diversity and Intersectional work for its members, award shows, events and The BRIT Trust.
Prior to setting up Harbourside, Ben spent a decade in various roles in the music industry. He was originally the Head of A&R at Future Music before making the decision to move to where his real passion was, in seeing artist perform live. He became a freelance Tour Manager and over a period of 5 years racked up over 500 shows internationally with clients such as Donny Osmond, Bananarama, Paul Young, NiK Kershaw, Jason Donovan, Rebecca Ferguson, Viktoria Modesta and Shayne Ward to name a few. He also established himself in non-music related touring, working as a Tour Manager for clients such as Gino D’Acampo, Paul Hollywood, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Stark, as well as TV personalities from The Only Way is Essex.
Ben started to manage artists alongside his touring business. He joined forces with Grizzly Management where he worked on clients such as Lucy Spraggan, The Dunwells, Grace Savage and more. He began his own enterprise on moving to Bristol in 2020. Harbourside Artist Management is currently the home of artists Viktoria Modesta, Lachi and Lucy May Walker.
Suzanne Bull MBE - Founder, Attitude is Everything
Suzanne is the Founder of Attitude is Everything, growing a short-term pilot programme into a fully-fledged charitable organisation, over 21 years. She is disabled and has both a personal and professional interest in improving access to live music. Attitude is Everything connects deaf and disabled people with music and events industries to improve access together.
Suzanne was honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2013 for services to music, arts and disabled people. She was also awarded Access All Areas Editor’s Award at the Event Production Awards 2015. From February 2017 – February 2020, she was appointed as one of the Minister for Disabled People, Work and Health’s Sector Champions, who helped to tackle the issues disabled people face as consumers. She represented the music industry, and she used her influential status as a leader in her industry to promote the benefits of being inclusive to disabled people. In May of the same year, she was listed in She Said So’s Alternative Power 100 List – celebrating the music industry’s unheard voices - and then in November, she was enrolled in Music Week’s Women In Music Awards Roll Of Honour.In November 2018, Suzanne was awarded Music Week’s Women in Music “Campaigner of the Year” Award, in recognition of her work to make live music more inclusive and accessible.
She has been listed in the Power 100 – 100 most influential disabled people in the UK – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Rich Legate - Artist Development Manager, Attitude is Everything
Rich is Artist Development Manager at music charity Attitude is Everything (AiE). The Organisation has 20 years of experience supporting venues, festivals and other areas of the music industry to make what they do more accessible and inclusive for Deaf and disabled people.
Moving to AiE after working at the BBC as a producer with BBC Introducing, Radio 1 and 6 Music, Rich now leads AiE’s ‘Next Stage’ initiative which removes barriers for artists and musicians with access requirements. He is a member of South London band CHILDCARE and former festival booker for Neverworld (LeeFest).
Elle Chante - Artist
Elle Chante is a singer and musical self expressionist based in the Midlands. Using her vocals, lyrics and instrumentation she strives to encompass and share with the audience the world that she lives in. A strong believer in the power of empathy and community, Elle aims to make music that creates space for people to better understand each other and themselves. She is particularly interested in making work that explores issues of mental health, invisible illness and disability.
Ruth Lyon - Artist
Ruth Lyon is singer-songwriter of intense honesty and an impulse to say it how it is. Making a unique brand of ‘baroque-pop’ she bares her soul with courage and conviction - full of stark self-reflection but also a knowing nod to the absurdity of life. Ruth, then Patterson, released her first single in 2019. “I’d Give It All” received support from 6 Music, Radio X and Spotify editorial. In 2020 Ruth cemented herself as one of the North East’s most important voices, when Sage Gateshead named her Artist-in-Residence. Over the course of the year, despite being thrown into turmoil by the pandemic, Ruth released two more singles, the evocative “Sink or Swim” and “Somebody Else”, for which she received the PRS Women Make Music award and was named as one of BBC Introducing’s hot tips for 2021.
Ruth is now taking on her mother’s maiden name, Lyon, with its connection to the Celtic coastlines of West Scotland, as she launches the next chapter of her career. Co-producing with Rhiannon Mair (Laura Marling, LUNA) and Cameron Craig (Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua) Ruth explores her different identities - from the louche rock star, to the bittersweet poet, looking for a love and a place in the world. Classically trained but with an eye for the catchy chorus and bright, pop melodies, Ruth sweeps from self-questioning piano ballads and lush string arrangements, to hands-in-the-air indie bangers.
With the raw energy of a young disabled person who has constantly had to adapt to life’s twists and turns, her introspective and sometimes droll twist on storytelling brings up questions you never knew you should be asking.
Paul Hawkins - Head of Volunteering & Skills Development, Attitude is Everything
Paul Hawkins is the Head of Volunteering and Skills Development at Attitude is Everything and oversees Attitude is Everything’s work in getting more Deaf and disabled people working in the music industry. Prior to this, he advised festivals on disability access for five years and has designed and delivered training for clients as diverse as the SECC, AEG Europe, Glastonbury Festival and HM Government of Gibraltar. Outside of his role, he is a published author and has experienced the barriers disabled musicians face as the lead singer of the Awkward Silences who have played at Latitude and Kendal Calling festivals, recorded sessions for Radio 1 and feature in a new documentary
Amanda Maxwell - Music Manager to Ellie Prohan & Chair of UK Music Future
Amanda manages a London based DJ, Radio and TV Presenter Ellie Prohan and most recently left Boiler Room as their Open Dance Floors programmer and project manager ensuring the company looked across their platform for intersectionality and social political issues intertwined with music culture.Amanda Maxwell is a board member to the BPI Equality, Justice and Advisory Group and is the UK Music Futures Chair to the UK Music Board. Community member to the women in music network shesaid.so and a regular contributor to panel talks on subjects related to inclusion, representation and equal empowerment within the creative industries. In addition to this Amanda has set up a collective for freelance women from music and creative sectors with over 200+ members. It is a place for sharing of job roles, advice and amplifying one another Freelance Queens the name you can trust.
Andy Edwards - UK Music executive/Music business consultant
Andy is an experienced music business executive with a career that encompasses record labels, music tech start-ups, rights acquisition and artist management. He has served on the boards of the Music Managers Forum (MMF) and UK Music. Andy founded and chaired the UK Music Futures Group before joining UK Music as Director of Research & Analysis.
Andy’s varied career includes marketing, digital strategy, business affairs, and commercial dealmaking roles in addition to strategy and research. He has worked with artists as varied as Genesis, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Dido, James Morrison, Cher Lloyd, Andreya Triana and two time Grammy award winning producer, mixer and engineer Cameron Craig. Andy continues to act as a consultant and advisor to artists, producers and songwriters alongside his UK Music work.
His passion for greater diversity and inclusion speaks to his own lived experience of neurodiversity, diagnosed in his forties with ADHD. Andy works tirelessly in the music industry and beyond, including writing the Diversity In Cycling report and sitting on the Diversity and Inclusion board of British Cycling, the sport’s governing body.
Mackinlay Ingham - NOW Music Project Coordinator at Sony Music
Mackinlay graduated with a 1st in Music Management from Falmouth University in 2018. She wasted no time getting into the music industry, touring with the legendary saxophonist Maceo Parker before cutting her teeth as a grass roots promoter putting on shows at venues such as the Roundhouse with the backing of the Music Venue Trust. At the same time, Mackinlay began working at the PRS Foundation before progressing to Sony Music as an intern at RCA working on acts such as Little Mix. Currently Mackinlay is the Project Coordinator for the iconic NOW That’s What I Call Music.
About the BPI Equity & Justice Advisory Group
EJAG is a diverse/intersectional and independent board of respected music industry professionals, who collectively advocate for the progression of the Equity, Diversity and Intersectional agenda across the sector and contribute to steering the BPI’s Equity, Diversity and Intersectional work for its members, award shows, events and The BRIT Trust.
The purpose of the group is to work collaboratively and progressively, to advocate and push for positive (intersectional) change and representation across the sector, with a focus on race, gender, sexuality and disability for the benefit of the music industry and its current and future workforce at all levels. Members of the Equity and Justice Advisory Group are drawn from The BRITs Diversity Advisory Group, which was formed in 2016 to advise on how The BRIT Awards could better represent music industry diversity and inclusion and reflect the depth of British Black music.
https://www.bpi.co.uk/equality-and-inclusion/the-equity-justice-advisory-group/
About Attitude is Everything
The future we want to see…Music and event industries that include Deaf and disabled people as audience members, performers, employees and volunteers.
What we’re doing to make that future a reality… Attitude is Everything connects Deaf and disabled people with music and event industries to improve access together.
Through our work:
• Deaf and disabled people lead the change. • Industry professionals learn from real-life experience and expertise. • Barriers are identified and removed. • Good practice is celebrated and rewarded. • More Deaf and disabled people play their part in music and event industries.
http://www.attitudeiseverything.org.uk/
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Start:
2021-12-02T16:00:00+00:00
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2021-12-02T18:00:00+00:00
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