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Carol Bowden

@bowders.bsky.social
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Musician, trauma informed practitioner, walker, childfree. www.carolbowdenmusic.co.uk/podcast

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Epstein Files were supposed to be released 123 days ago.
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Sound Sense @soundsenseuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We want your submissions for the upcoming issue of Sounding Board! You can share your thinking and practice in words, pictures, audio or video. If you have any questions, please email our Communications Manager claire.francis@soundsense.org & find more info here: www.soundsense.org/DB/resources...
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Alison McGowan is a puppeteer and a child psychotherapist; Nic Golightly is a graphic artist who dabbles in design and illustration. Both are associate artists with Blue Cabin and have been paired together as part of our ‘buddying’ system.
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Sound Sense @soundsenseuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Join us next week for our first Sound Sense Gathering of 2026 hosted by board member Carol Bowden. We'll be idea-sharing around what we can do as community music practitioners to support mental health and wellbeing, for ourselves and for others. All welcome! fb.me/e/5xs1GLMmZ
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/01/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
How can a charity like Blue Cabin gather data on energy usage and sustainability when we all work from home? Find out how we overcame this and two other challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey: wearebluecabin.com/latest/3-cha...
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3 challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey - Blue Cabin
Two of our sustainability champions, Amy Armstrong and Jane Gray, share three challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey so far.
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It was an honour to represent @bluecabin.bsky.social for this prestigious award. The #CYPNowAwards showcase innovative and outstanding practice in the children's services sector. We were rubbing shoulders with amazing people and organisations.
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Blue Cabin's Care-Experienced Consultants challenge, shape and strengthen our work, and help make sure that care-experienced voices are heard. Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role. wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
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What it means to be a Care-Experienced Consultant - Blue Cabin
Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha shares her perspective on her time as part of Blue Cabin's team of Care-Experienced Consultants.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Piercing The Sky is a celebration of artwork and creative writing by care-experienced young artists in HMP Deerbolt and we’re proud to be able to share artworks from it. You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
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Piercing the Sky virtual exhibition - Blue Cabin
Creative Aid is a co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's been great working with Blue Cabin to build their bank of free resources. You can find them here!
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Issue three of Sounding Board, the Journal of Community Music, is out now, and it includes a look at Blue Cabin's use of supervision with creative practitioners. Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5... @bowders.bsky.social
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Get booked! We'd love to see you 😻
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You can book for this year's training day here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
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This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Young men in HMP Deerbolt have been working with artists to create their own exhibition and artists' book. Find out more about their work and share your responses, which will be fed back to the artists. Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...
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Pages of my life: Art, care and conversation - Blue Cabin
A free, online event to explore artworks produced by young men in Deerbolt Prison.
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
There's still time to book your space for this training opportunity 🎶 Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶 Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶
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Sound Sense @soundsenseuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
September issue of our monthly Bulletin Board newsletter is out now! - Join the Sound Sense Board - Musicians with autism research steering group - Contribute to Sounding Board journal - Community music training, jobs & resources Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views
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Sound Sense :: News & Views :: supporting community music
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Sound Sense @soundsenseuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Did you miss our Community Music Now event back in March? Catch up on moments, learnings and perspectives from the two-day event in our latest Sounding Board journal - members can log in and read it here: www.soundsense.org/resources-an...
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for some playful music-making, learning, and conversation 🎶
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🎉 We're finalists!!! 🎉 Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶
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Creative Life Story Work @creativelsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compositions. creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-... @bowders.bsky.social
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We’re working with Groundswell Arts to roll out their brilliant Sing Our Story project with care-experienced families here in the North East 🎵 Here’s an update on the first songs, from musician Carol Bowden. wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti... @youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
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Putting your heart in a song - Blue Cabin
Here in North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compos...
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It was a joyful, humbling, gorgeous experience to work with the foster carers to write a song about the children. Here's my thoughts if you fancy a short read ❤️
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
All 7 episodes of The Community Musician in Conversation are now LIVE on The Community Musician Podcast. Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️ You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Community Musician in Conversation is going LIVE!!! I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria. You can listen by following the link in my bio!
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Have a read about what I get up to. It's the most rewarding, inspiring, loving group of adults and children to work with. I look forward to singing, playing, chatting and laughing with them every week ❤️🎶❤️
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Evaluation shouldn't be "done on" but "done with". Read my blog for @wearebluecabin on working together to design evaluation for varying projects. wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...
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The people and passion in evaluation - Blue Cabin
When Blue Cabin partnered with tialt // there is an alternative to develop a new way of measuring our impact, we wanted to make sure that people across the entire organisation were involved – includin...
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Carol Bowden @bowders.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is going to be a cracking event for practitioners and researchers working in community music. Get yourself booked on! Community Music Now Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...
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Community Music Now
A collaborative production between Sound Sense, Leeds Beckett University and AMP, exploring innovative practice in community music.
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