The SoundWaves Network is an innovative and exciting Early Years Music Network for Early Years practitioners, child-minders, Early Years settings and InspirED schools.

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ProjectInspirED

InspirED was a Somerset wide education project that offered exciting and unforgettable arts opportunities to schools and Early Years settings. Now InspirED is changing and entering a new phase in its evolution.

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NewsTake Art’s work features in Early Education Posted: 3 December 2018
Take Art was delighted to be asked to contribute to leading research journal, Early Education’s Autumn 2018 special issue on music in early childhood
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NewsThe SoundWaves Network Launches in Plymouth Posted: 22 October 2018
Take Art launch their three-year Early Years Music project The SoundWaves Network in Plymouth, heralding a exciting future for Early Years music provision in the South West.
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NewsMusic to our SoundWaves Network Ears! Posted: 20 September 2018
Well-deserved success to the first cohort of qualified Early Childhood Music Educators.
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NewsTake Art Launches 2018 Autumn Season of Shows, Training and Workshops Posted: 3 September 2018
Welcome to our new season of events and activity here at Take Art and throughout Somerset.
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NewsSoundwaves Extra - First Findings Released Posted: 9 July 2018
Fast on the heals of our amazing Youth Music funding news, Take Art can now announce the release of the Soundwaves Extra report, which details the status and importance of Early Years music provision in the South West and what the project has achieved thus far Read the top level findings and download the full report here.
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NewsTake Art Receives Vital Youth Music Funding Posted: 6 July 2018
Take Art is delighted to have been awarded £146,778 by Youth Music to undertake a three-year programme of music activity, designed to support the development of children and young people in Somerset and the South West.
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NewsSmall Steps Big Noise Posted: 16 March 2018
Small Steps Big Noise was the South West’s biggest ever Early Years Expressive Arts Conference, bringing together 150 EY practitioners, artists, music leaders, settings, regional hubs, funders, researchers and strategic partners from all over the region. Find out what happened here!
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NewsArts for All – and a Gold Star for Gina Posted: 25 October 2017
Congratulations to Take Art’s Director of Early Years, Gina Westbrook, who has been awarded the Life Time Achievement prize at South Somerset District Council's Gold Star Awards.
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