https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246232

Sign the #Petition
Protect the junior departments of the Royal #Welsh College of #Music and #Drama from closure.

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has provided a junior music and #acting programme to #students aged from 4 to 18 for the past 25 years.

Due to #financial difficulties the #RWCMD is being forced to consult on closing the Young Acting and Young Music programmes at the end of this term.
#wales #youth #musical #education

Today saw my last ride home from RWCMD – Tomorrow is my last day at RWCMD…

I need to drive in so I can take home my “stuff” after clearing my desk, and locker, and office drawers, and multiple boxes of “things” spread around the building. After 20 years I may have built up a “collection” ….

It’s been a tough week of “lasts”, lots of amazing and encouraging conversations as folks bump into me to say goodbye.

I going to miss so many things about this place. Some things not so much. But its still hard – and that’s OK because that difficulty in leaving is only there because of the good things from the past 20 years.

Monday sees the start of my new job – i’m still slightly in shock that I will be joining CharcoalBlue as an AV Design Consultant.

But before then, one more day,
one day more,
one more day ….

https://mattrog.net/blog/last-ride/

#charcoalblue #job #RWCMD

Go on then, guess where I am (again)!

This time to see The Manchester Collective and Fergus McCreadle, melding jazz and Scottish folk music together.

Should be interesting!

#LiveMusic
#SupportTheArts
#RWCMD
#RoyalWelshCollegeOfMusicAndDrama

Back in my happy place.

This time to see Roopa Panesar.

Roopa Panesar is considered one of the finest sitar players to emerge on the Indian Classical Music scene from the UK.

#LiveMusic
#SupportTheArts
#Sitar
#RWCMD

A fantastic performance from Anna Mudeka last night in Mama Afrika. Telling the life story of iconic singer, songwriter and activist Miriam Makeba, who spent 31 years in exile from her native South Africa due to apartheid.

#RWCMD
#SupportTheArts
#liveperformance

Despite many, many trips to the Welsh College of Music and Drama this is my first visit to the Donald Gordon Theatre for tonight's performance of Mama Afrika.

#rwcmd
#LocalTheatre
#SupportTheArts

The #RWCMD #TECHOPS team have escaped Wales and are off to the big smoke for the #PLASA show. Always good to catch up with the people and tech behind our industry.

The 5+ hours in the car ... Not so much ...

Yesterday was silly hat day at work - more commonly known as graduation!

Being #rwcmd we do graduation & last day of the academic year & the summer ball all on the same day!

It's always a special but bittersweet day of celebration & goodbyes.

But also being "tech" we are one of the few staff working all day - rather than celebrating. Slightly easier this year as we pushed the ball over to our friends at Production78 so we were just "cover".

But yep still bittersweet.

Back at the #RWCMD for 7 Steps: The Music of Miles Davies.

#Jazz #LiveMusic
#SupportTheArts