MID works with community music groups, immigration detainee, asylum seeker & refugee representatives, and IRC staff. Partners include the Helen Tetlow Memorial Fund, Drum Runners (some members formerly of Traditional Arts Projects), Music for Change, the Oxford Concert Party, Refugee Action, Education Managers at IRC Haslar and IRC Dover, and the Assistant Director of Religion & Activities at IRC Colnbrook.
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MID would like to thank Music in Prisons (www.musicinprisons.org.uk) for their wonderful work on the pilot programme in 2005. During a three-day project at IRC Harmondsworth, they worked with detainee-participants to produce some of the original songs you can hear on this page.
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We would also like to thank our community music providers Music for Change (MfC) and Traditional Arts Projects (TAPS) for their work on behalf of Music In Detention. Both have been delivering regular music-making workshops at Haslar and Dover IRCs, as well as one-off workshops in other IRCs. Songs recorded during MID music-making workshops, and as part of the innovative Community Exchange projects with schools can be listened to on this page. Since April 2008, we are pleased to be working with new partners Drum Runners. ...................................................................................................................
Background to the track "We Got the Right": Lucky Moyo and Téa Hodzic from Music for Change worked with year 5 pupils from St Mary’s CE Primary School in Dover and detainees from Dover Immigration Removal Centre to jointly write and record a song, We Got the Right. The two groups worked on the same song separately with a series of workshops swapping between the school and the IRC. ....................................................................................................................
The process involved the children thinking about the rights they believe they have at home and in the classroom, and relating that to the wider issue of Human Rights that we all share regardless of where we come from. They were helped in this process by a workshop run by the Education Team from Migrant Helpline. Their rights were then declared through song, and recorded. The detainees responded to the recording with their own lyrics and provided a musical backing track. This song is the result of the work, which got its first public performance by the St Mary’s pupils at the Stay a While public performance event at the Dover Discovery Centre on 22nd March 2008. .....................................................................................................................
The children and detainees also recorded a version of Stay A While, a song composed by Téa with lyrics by Ollie Wilson-Dickson
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Music In Detention (MID) works through music to give voice to immigration detainees and create channels of communication between them, immigration and detention staff, local communities and the wider public.
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MID was formed by a group of organisations and individuals inspired by a pilot programme that took participatory music activities into four of the UK’s Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). This pilot found that the life-affirming experience of group music-making crossed cultural and language barriers and had a massive impact in relieving the stress suffered by detainees. Since mid-2005 MID has facilitated delivery of music, dance and performance workshops inside all of the UK’s IRCs.
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"I believe that mentally and physically I have been relieved. Since yesternight, and even this morning, there is no word like 'detention'. I feel like I'm free or something. I'm able to do what I like doing. It's a great, great time. It's a relief, a remedy for everything". Detainee participant, IRC Harmondsworth
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“Music is more important than shop, internet, gym. After food and air and drink, is music next. Music is the food of the soul.” Detainee participant, IRC Colnbrook
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“I think it lifts their self-esteem and makes them more confident. They believe in themselves again. They become more positive and concentrated on changing their situation rather than putting themselves down the whole time.” Key skills tutor, IRC Colnbrook
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To find out more, please contact us:
Music In Detention (MID)
Kings Place Music Base
90 York Way
London N1 9AG
Tel: 020 7014 2810
email: info@musicindetention.org.uk
Registered charity no. 1119049, Company No. 5943893
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MID gratefully acknowledges the support of its funders: Helen Tetlow Memorial Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts Council England, Baring Foundation, Lankelly Chase, Tudor Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 29May1961, Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust.
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