ANNUAL REVIEW 2013/14 “ Uplifting, thought-provoking... the joy of seeing community art so eloquently enthroned without the need for trained voices.” the times on crowd out “ In terms of historical reach, this year’s Spitalfields Festival is certainly impressive. It ranges all the way from concerts exploring those ancient forms of classical music known as ‘early’ music to new works that use multi-media” daily telegraph on spitalfields music summer festival 14 Takeover at Shapla Primary School SPITALFIELDS MUSIC 2013/14 AT A GLANCE DELIGHTED over 29,000 audience SHARED 150 free tickets members and participants donated by audience members Led over 250 INSPIRING MUSIC ASKED ABOUT THE FUTURE of our workshops and projects with people cultural and civic life in a series aged 6 months to 97 years-old of What Next? downloads TRAINED 200 musicians, parents, Introduced 800 babies to opera library and children’s centre staff through our GROUND-BREAKING in community music-making opera series Musical Rumpus ENABLED primary school WON the Arts, Culture & Heritage children to fill their schools with category at the CHARITY AWARDS music through our INNOVATIVE (and were shortlisted for the approach to IMMERSIVE RPS MUSIC AWARDS) CREATIVE LEARNING Raised £9 FOR EVERY £1 received Attracted 98% of participants from in core public funding EAST LONDON FUNDRAISED 66% of our income, Worked in PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER and GENERATED 16% through ticket 20 ORGANISATIONS from the arts, sales and other sources health and education sectors CONTRIBUTED OVER £2.5 MILLION in Presented 34 NEW MUSIC PREMIERES economic impact to the local area Firefly Burning at Wilton’s Music Hall spitalfields music 02 annual review 2013 / 14 2013/14 INTRODUCTION Welcome to our review of 2013/14. It has been Our programme includes: another highly successful year for the charity, full of artistic highlights; unusual, ambitious and Two annual music festivals of over 130 events Our biggest audiences ever for a Winter income from Arts Council England, London Borough innovative creative learning activity; a growing taking place in 12 venues in the borough. The Festival and over 130 festival events through of Tower Hamlets and City of London, many trusts public profile and a strengthened financial position. festivals have an international reputation for the year reaching the broadest classical music and foundations, livery companies, individual donors their quality and are regularly broadcast on BBC audience in London. and companies. We are grateful to you all and are Spitalfields Music has two roles – as a creative Radio 3. They have a marketing reach of 2 million proud that such a wide range of supporters want charity serving east London and as an innovator and we have an active base of 40,000 bookers. Over 200 people were involved in our training, to come together through the charity’s work. in the arts sector, finding new ways of working volunteering and apprenticeship programmes, which others might adopt and which might An award winning music education programme ensuring that our impact reached well beyond Finally, huge thanks and congratulations are due influence policy. with over 250 music workshops each year in our direct delivery. to our fantastic board, team and volunteers for all schools, hospitals, parks, children’s centres, of the commitment and energy they bring to the Spitalfields City Farm and local markets. We The charity’s reach is wide and deep within Tower charity. We are lucky to have such a dedicated benefit Tower Hamlets residents between the Hamlets – contributing an economic impact of group of people involved at the heart of Spitalfields ages of 6 months and 90 years and train both £2.5 million to the borough, shining a light on Music’s work. Thank you all for contributing to such musicians and non-musicians to use music in achievements of local people through our festivals, a successful year. their regular work. working in health settings to support health and wellbeing, acting as a lead partner for Tower We hope that you enjoy reading about the We tour work around the UK so that other Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service Spitalfields Music year. boroughs can learn from the charity’s and ensuring the borough’s young people have best practice. opportunities to develop their creativity and Sir Alan Moses Abigail Pogson discover a cultural life for themselves, and in Chair Chief Executive Looking back on 2013/14 it has been another using music in local settings to encourage exceptional year with the Orchestra of the Age community cohesion. of Enlightenment and Arun Ghosh as Associate Artists, providing a thread for our programme, To achieve this in a sustained and meaningful way supported by a range of other world class artists and to ensure that our focus on bringing the highest and a wide spectrum of involvement from local quality music to the widest possible audience is not people. Highlights of the year include: lost, we work in partnership with other parts of the local civic infrastructure. We would like to thank our The 25th anniversary of our Learning & partners – across the public, private and third sectors, Participation programme marked with Crowd large and small – for our collaborations. It seems to Out, a new work for 1,000 untrained voices by us that, now, more than ever, the three sectors David Lang, performed in our Summer Festival. must find ways to work together towards the collective goal of an equal and aspirational society. Further expansion of our Takeover Festivals, which will lead to our first ever public festival Financial partnership is a crucial part of this and we “ The festival is a great way to find out about new made entirely by young people in 2015 – a are grateful to all who contribute financially to the ideas in music and to try new genres/performers.” Spring Takeover Festival becoming our third charity. We have an unusually broad range of income audience member festival alongside our well established Summer sources, all of which play an important part in ensuring and Winter Festivals. we can maintain our work. This includes statutory spitalfields music 03 annual review 2013 / 14 ABOUT SPITALFIELDS MUSIC VISION OUR WORK Changing lives and aspirations through music. LEARNING & PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME Year-round programme of workshops and MISSION performances in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring Spitalfields Music creates live music experiences in boroughs Barking & Dagenham and Newham Spitalfields and east London through performances, learning and participation. Taking live music as our WINTER FESTIVAL core, we explore music, performance, its artists 12 days in December and our communities. SUMMER FESTIVAL AIMS 15 days in June To produce music festivals for locally based people and visitors to the area, programming in a way which takes artistic risk and offers something new to audiences and participants. To make year-round learning and participation projects with the people of Tower Hamlets and east London which encourage aspiration, build confidence and develop skills. To nurture and find talent, to commission new work and to collaborate with artists. To be a catalyst in music in Tower Hamlets and to engage in the life of east London. Crowd Out at Arnold Circus “ It was lovely to be able to take a step back and watch the children join in with enthusiasm and engage really well. The children got the chance to be creative in a variety of ways and their confidence g r e w.” kobi nazrul primary school teacher on takeover spitalfields music 04 annual review 2013 / 14 LOOKING AHEAD Our new three year business plan (2014/15 – Our activity will be at its most intense in Tower 2016/17) sets out a refreshed vision for the charity Hamlets, with ripples throughout our neighbouring and redefines its mission as a creative charity for east London boroughs, the wider UK and beyond. the benefit of east London and as an innovator for Our strategic priorities for the next three years the arts sector. are to: In the years ahead we will continue to produce Develop our programme world class festivals and an innovative and Focus on young people as audience members, responsive Learning & Participation programme, producers, creators and learners, and work in addition to refocusing our efforts to support with elders. artists and develop our audiences. Support artist development by expanding We will concentrate on three key goals: our training programmes and starting an administrative and producing hub for Delight, inspire and bring joy through emerging ensembles. exceptional music to as wide a group of people as possible, focusing on points of access for Develop our festivals by placing a renewed people in east London. emphasis on: audience development; innovative commissioning and building new partnerships; Model the role of the arts, specifically music, and fusing digital activity into our work. in the 21st century as a part of shared civic life. Formalise our role as an innovation unit for Support the development of artists as leaders the arts sector within society. Actively share information about our innovative projects and models of work. Takeover at Kobi Nazrul Primary School Measure the impact of our activity in a CASE STUDY: TAKEOVER consistent way. Takeover was designed to support Year 3 pupils’ Takeover was also designed to involve the children’s Establish a three year research programme transitions from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2, parents in the creative process, to demonstrate the in partnership with higher education. providing them with opportunities to establish importance of creative activities on their children’s themselves within the school and increase their education and to embed these activities into family Develop our financial model self-esteem. life outside of school. By working closely with TAKEOVER Maintain a focused fundraising programme school Family Liaison Officers, a high level of and manage our finances effectively whilst By giving the pupils the creative freedom to develop parental engagement was achieved.