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Dear Parents/Carers, Group Members, Happy New Year and welcome back to CREATE City Music groups 2022. Congratulations to all who took part in the wonderful Christmas concert – everyone sounded amazing – we have had so many lovely emails and calls congratulating you all on your performances. In order to run groups safely this term […]

Glasgow CREATE plan to run Glasgow Schools’ Young Musician Competition, in City Halls, Studio 1 on Thursday 3rd February 2022. We are accepting entries from one vocalist and one instrumentalist from each Glasgow Secondary and Primary School.   Entries should be emailed to Pamela.Black@education.glasgow.gov.uk by Friday 21st January 2022.  Competitor 1 Name: Instrument: School: Year: […]

Information for Members and Parents/Guardians  We are delighted to announce details of Glasgow Schools’ Symphony Orchestra 2022 schedule. GSSO provides a unique opportunity for Young People from across Glasgow schools to experience professional orchestral training, repertoire and performance delivered by our team of highly talented staff. APPLICATION form can be accessed here Closing date for […]

Our YMI elves have been busying away creating lots of fun Christmas music activities for you all and we’re so excited to share them with you. More importantly, we can’t wait to see you join in and we hope you will share your class activities with us by sending on your class performances to be […]

Glasgow CREATE are delighted to share this ambitious city-wide music project as part of COP26, with primary and secondary schools from all over Glasgow taking part. Performing the song ‘I am the Earth’ by composer Glyn Lehmann, with gaelic translation from Beverley Darroch, this is Glasgow’s message to the world. “We share the future…One Earth, […]

Sunnyside Primary School, Hillhead High and Shawlands worked with artists from SWG3’S yardworks over a number of weeks to create 2 murals on the arches at SWG3 linked to Climate Change.

We are delighted to be re-launching our Glasgow City Council, Education Services CREATE Bands, Orchestras and Choirs starting in November 2021.  We are so looking forward to welcoming our young musicians back to City Halls on a Saturday morning and filling it with music and singing.  It has been such a challenging time, but we […]

Created specially for COP26, this new painting by artist Gerard M Burns entitled ‘Our Future’ features 6 children from a primary school in Glasgow’s East End. In Gerard M Burns’ paintings the underlying meaning or message is presented to us via breath-taking painterly technique and ‘Our Future’, set against a gritty urban backdrop, is no […]

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. This year will be the 26th annual summit – […]

As the world’s eyes look upon Glasgow ahead of COP26, the CREATE YMI & IMS team have launched an ambitious citywide music project. Our tutors have created fabulous resources for teachers to use in class. All the material, including lyric sheet, percussion rhythms, video lessons for early, first and second level as well as demonstration […]

PREMIERES Wed 26th May at 2pm on the CREATE YouTube Channel. Welcome to the CREATE YMI Summer Showcase 2021. Our Youth Music Initiative (YMI) tutors have been delivering remote learning video lessons to all primary schools across Glasgow, with a focus on the music of Scotland, China and India. We are delighted to showcase some […]

Celtic Connections are pleased to announce that the 5 school concerts we had to postpone in January will soon be available to watch on the Glasgow Life YouTube channel. These concerts feature some of the fantastic artists who appeared at Celtic Connections Online in January. We hope that you and your pupils enjoy these concerts. […]