music
Punk: Rage & Revolution
In January 2022 we were awarded £159,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to carry out an exciting intergenerational heritage learning project in partnership with Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp. The project explores the irreverent and rebellious Punk youth subculture and it’s legacy, and will lead to a major exhibition at Leicester’s New … Read more
Whatif?
An 18 month Employability project. January 2021 – October 2022. Are you aged 15-24 and live in the Leicester or Leicestershire area? Have you left school or college in the last couple of years and are now unsure of what you want to do? What IF… we could inspire your future? Join the What IF? … Read more
Mods: Shaping a generation – modified
Mods: Shaping a Generation told the story of a 1960s first youth subculture through a major exhibition at Soft Touch Arts and New Walk Museum. The project was made possible with funding from the National Heritage Lottery and BID Leicester. Soft Touch Arts, Joe Nixon of Arch Creative and author and curator Shaun Knapp worked … Read more
Music for young people with special educational needs
Over the past 6 weeks we have been working with 2 Special education schools from Leicester. Ellesmere College is a special school on the outskirts of Leicester City, The College has Primary, Secondary and Post 16 departments and caters for the needs of 250 students between the ages of 4 – 19 with a wide … Read more
Does music making improve your mental health?
I’ve always been an advocate of music benefiting the soul, but over the past few months I have seen evidence of this on every project I’ve worked on. Over the Past three months we have been piloting a project working in a hospital school in Leicestershire, working with young people who are in residential care. … Read more
enSENble
enSENble A weekly Saturday music activity session for young people with special educational needs. This project offere a fully inclusive musical experience and brings together many different styles of music from Rock to Samba, Hip Hop and the spoken word and singing. in partnership with Leicestershiremusic., Each session will include the opportunity for young people to … Read more
MiXT UP travellers
MiXT-UP Travellers is a strand from our MiXT-UP three year music programme. The Travellers sessions work with young people from travelling communities, and participants range from aged four to fifteen. Mixt-Up Travellers MiXT-Up Travellers, funded by Youth Music is a programme ran by Soft Touch and the partnering organisation, HCYC Harborough District Children’s and Young people’s … Read more
MiXT UP Youth Music project
2016 onwards In January Youth Music awarded us funding to start a large three-year project, MiXT-UP, giving young people who wouldn’t normally get the the chance to access music-making activities. So far we have worked over seven weeks with refugees who have recently arrived in Leicester, giving them weekly music sessions using music technology … Read more
City Festival Lantern Parade
Over the summer of 2016 Soft Touch had the opportunity to run some community drumming workshops as part of the City festival Clash of drums Event. We decided to deliver workshops with three groups of children from two geographical areas of Leicester, New Parks and Saffron. We worked for 6 weeks in each of the … Read more