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@hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social
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We run music workshops in UK immigration detention centres & asylum hotels to release the words, music, and life stories of the people held inside. linktr.ee/hearmeoutmusic

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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our friends at Dovetail Orchestras are looking for refugee and asylum-seeking musicians (aged 18+) to join a new music ensemble in South London. The group will create music inspired by the cultures, traditions and stories of those in the room: dovetailorchestra.org.uk/dovetail-bri...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We loved seeing our friend Ehsan from The Unknowns on BBC Songs of Praise recently, working hard with Margins Project at @unionchapeluk.bsky.social - watch from 12m05s: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Songs of Praise - Union Chapel
Claire McCollum is in London to visit Union Chapel, both a world-renowned music venue and a diverse worshipping community putting faith into action.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
One week to go to vote for our film in the Smiley Charity Film Awards - vote for us, then be inspired by hundreds of other brilliant organisations. You can vote for as many as you like! smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/hear-m...
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Hear Me Out - Kwaku's Story
Kwaku tells us about his journey with Hear Me Out - from arriving in the UK, to performing at The Union Chapel.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Statement for 2026 from Hear Me Out hearmeoutmusic.org.uk/stories/hear...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Support Hear Me Out in the Smiley Charity Film Awards by voting for our film with Kwaku - it's free to vote! smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/hear-m... Voting closes Friday 30 January.
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Hear Me Out - Kwaku's Story
The Smiley Charity Film Awards is the world’s biggest campaign to promote cause-based films. Nearly half a million members of the public have voted in the…
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from Hear Me Out!
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Need support over the holidays? Or looking for support for someone else? We've got a handy collection of links here:
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If you or someone you know needs support over the winter break, here are a few links and phone numbers you can use:
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
At the end of last year, we finished our work at Napier Barracks. Read more about the end of our work there:
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We've been working in Napier Barracks in Folkestone for three years, delivering music workshops and creating the Band from the Barracks, which has performed at festivals in Hastings and Dover.The…
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Need support over the holidays? Or looking for support for someone else? We've got a handy collection of links here:
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Hear Me Out
If you or someone you know needs support over the winter break, here are a few links and phone numbers you can use:
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Season's Greetings from Hear Me Out!
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We are delighted to share that we raised over £10k through our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge campaign! These funds will make a real difference for people facing tough times in immigration detention. Your support brings a little hope in hostile times, and we are so grateful.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We must support each other to navigate this hostile asylum & immigration system to secure our safety. The Right to Remain Toolkit is an important resource that can equip ppl going through the system. ow.ly/ozhi50XGktB #NoOneisIllegal #MigrationisLife #TheseWallsMustFall
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
LAST CALL for donations to our #ChristmasChallenge - the campaign ends at 12noon! These little snowmen were made by children in an asylum hotel. Every donation you make is DOUBLED, meaning we can do more for people caught in immigration detention. Donate here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Less than 24 hours to go!
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Big Give @biggive.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The Supporter’s Choice Award is a free way to show your support for a charity you care about, where they could win £1,000 donated by Big Give. To enter: ✅ Post on Bluesky ✅ Use #BigGiveChoice & #ChristmasChallenge ✅ Tag Big Give + your chosen charity ✅ Share why they deserve to win
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Only 24 hours to go to hit our #ChristmasChallenge target - every donation, no matter what you can afford, is really appreciated by our team, and everyone we work with in immigration detention. Bring connection and community to families facing a hostile system: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
A gloved hand, presumably Santa, holds a card reading "One Day To Go - £7,226 raised so far for music in immigration detention" over a picture of a smiling man called Olu.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
All donations made to our Big Give appeal will be doubled, meaning your donation will go twice as far — meaning it could help provide practical advice and emotional support to people like Olu as they navigate the asylum system. Donate here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Share music this Christmas with a person held in immigration detention. Every pound donated is doubled, increasing access to connection, creativity and improved mental health. Donate here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Donations doubled for the next week - it costs £13 for a person to attend a music workshop in immigration detention. Your donation this week will help TWICE the number of people - like Olu - take part in a music workshop that fosters creativity, confidence, and belonging. #ChristmasChallenge
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Rene Cassin @renecassin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A child saved, a family lost, a legacy that warns us not to make the same mistakes. With #Refugee #FamilyReunion now restricted, we must remember the human cost of separation, and our responsibility to prevent it. 🔗 Read @suelukes.bsky.social blog here: renecassin.org/from-kindert...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We need YOUR help to take vital music workshops into immigration detention settings. For one week only, your donations to our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge campaign are DOUBLED - helping people like Olu move from isolation to connection. Donate here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Sue Lukes @suelukes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Do you want to make more hope, joy, welcome? this is your chance. donate.biggive1.org/campaign/a05... @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social take music into immigration detention, barracks, asylum "hotels" and bring just that and amplify the voices. And from tomorrow your donations will be doubled. Go go go
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Empowering migrants through music and creativity – Big Give
Hear Me Out uses music and creativity to support people with lived experience of immigration detention and asylum. We run …
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Next week, we're launching our @biggive.bsky.social #christmaschallenge campaign. For one week only, your donations will be DOUBLED. We need YOUR help to take vital music workshops into immigration detention settings, and offer hope to those facing hostility: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
A Big Give campaign image that reads "Get ready to have your Christmas donations doubled! 2nd to 9th December - Save the Date". This text appears on a red background, with an inset image of four musicians clapping and playing music in a green room.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Never too early for a bit of festive joyfulness from our work with kids in asylum hotels.
A kid in an asylum hotel sticks cotton pads onto a piece of paper to make a snow drift.A drawing of a Christmas tree in colouring pencils, drawn by a kid in an asylum hotelA small Christmassy man, made out of cardboard, says "Oh oh", whilst walking on a cotton-pad snowdriftA Christmas tree drawn in pencil and crayon, with tissue paper ornaments stuck to it. It is signed "A", and has been created by a kid in an asylum hotel.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The Hear Me Out community gathered in West London recently for its annual Practice Forum - sharing expertise and insight from working in immigration detention settings: hearmeoutmusic.org.uk/stories/hear...
The Hear Me Out community gathers in a pyramid-shaped room - they sit in a circle of chairs, facing a facilitator and a screen.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
COMING SOON: We’re taking part in Big Give’s #ChristmasChallenge! For one week only (2-9 December), donations to Hear Me Out will be matched. That means twice the impact for your donation, transforming isolation to connection, and sharing music with people held in UK immigration detention.
A joyful man plays a drum kit - a green triangle encircles his head, denoting he's part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge campaign. The text above his head reads "Double The Difference".
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Nominate Hear Me Out for a Movement for Good Award - 12 draws over the Christmas period for £1k to go towards vital music workshops in immigration detention spaces. We're charity number 1119049: movementforgood.com
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Nominate a charity - Movement for Good
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
One day to go until the online event about Artists' Care in Complex Settings, with Youth Music, University of Wolverhampton, Irene Taylor Trust, and us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artists-ca...
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Artists' Care: Supervision and Care for Artists Working in Complex Settings
How can supervision and care in challenging and complex settings be structured, funded and embedded within organisations?
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A quick flashback to a sweltering day in Dover as Band from the Barracks hit the stage at Dover Multicultural Festival:
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"In that suffocating situation... it really messes with your head." This ITV report explains the situation Hear Me Out hopes to relieve - bringing music, community and mental stimulation to confinement: www.itv.com/news/central...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hear Me Out runs music and arts workshops with children in UK asylum hotels: youtu.be/Knay4itKq0w
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Hear Me Out - music and arts workshops with children in UK asylum hotels
YouTube video by Hear Me Out
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We're taking part in this session about Artists' Care in complex settings on November 20th - take a look: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artists-ca... @youthmusic.bsky.social @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social @good-vibrations.bsky.social
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Artists' Care: Supervision and Care for Artists Working in Complex Settings
How can supervision and care in challenging and complex settings be structured, funded and embedded within organisational structures?
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Feel like you need some facts at your fingertips? Download this excellent cheatsheet from @safepassageintl.bsky.social : act.safepassage.org.uk/ultimate-mig...
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The Ultimate Migration Cheatsheet
When lies spread faster than truth, facts become resistance. This cheatsheet is your ultimate pocket resource to challenge far-right narratives on migration. These quick, hard-hitting facts will help ...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We are seeking an experienced Individual Giving Consultant to support the continued growth and development of Hear Me Out’s fundraising. More info and application: hearmeoutmusic.org.uk/stories/vaca...
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Coming up this afternoon - our webinar with @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social about working with music in prisons and detention settings. Still time to sign up and join us: www.eventbrite.com/e/learnings-...
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Learnings from prison/detention - a musician's perspective
Irene Taylor Trust and Hear Me Out compare and reflect on our practice at the front line of prisons and asylum detention.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Next Monday! A free webinar to hear about our learning from observing music project delivery in prisons and immigration detention. Book your place on Eventbrite to take part: www.eventbrite.com/e/learnings-...
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The Irene Taylor Trust - #MusicinPrisons & the community @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We're very excited to team up with @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social for a FREE webinar next week, following observation of each other's practice in prisons and immigration detention. Great insights for anyone interested in music in community settings Monday 22/09/25 - 2.30pm BOOK: bit.ly/ITTHMO
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our project with @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social has been made possible by the good folks at @thelightbulbtrust.bsky.social - check out their brilliant work here, including bringing together organisations doing great things within marginalised communities: lightbulbtrust.org
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Lightbulb Trust – Changing lives for the better
Changing lives for the better
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For a little mid-week pick-me-up, take a look at the HMO Band showreel. Interested in booking them for your festival, gig or event? Get in touch!
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What's it really like taking music into prisons and immigration detention? What works? What doesn't? Our artists join forces with Irene Taylor Trust artists to discuss - free webinar, 22nd September: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learnings-...
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Learnings from prison/detention - a musician's perspective
Irene Taylor Trust and Hear Me Out compare and reflect on our practice at the front line of prisons and asylum detention.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We're celebrating our friends @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social on their 30th anniversary year - check out their wonderful FREE photo exhibition at Rich Mix, on now, and find out about their anniversary show here: irenetaylortrust.com/celebrating-...
A tall, smiley man holds an electric piano keyboard and points at the camera in front of a pink background. There is also a photo of the photoshoot - the photographer stands with camera and light source, focusing on the subject.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
REMINDER: The deadline to apply to be an HMO trustee is Monday 15 September - if you're interested, get in touch with any questions, or apply here:
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Hear Me Out takes music-making into immigration detention centres and other places where migrants are confined, like asylum hotels and army barracks. Our artists work with people in these places,…
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Get an insight into how our artists work in detention settings with this video featuring HMO artist Oliver Seager:
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Oliver Seager, Hear Me Out Artist on his work at Napier Barracks
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Our friends at the Amwaj choir of Palestine (Bethlehem, Hebron) today release their first EP "Palestine Waves | Beauty out of Desolation". Listen and celebrate music created as a lifeline in the region's current tragic context: tr.ee/o7JL5sf-93 youtu.be/tNT8hroGILQ
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Yves BALMER, Pollens : Musique d'exils (Lyrics: Marik FROIDEFOND)
YouTube video by Amwaj Choir
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We're joining forces with @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social for a webinar, following observation of each other's practice in prisons and immigration detention. It's free, with great insights for anyone interested in music in community settings. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/learnings-...
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Learnings from prison/detention - a musician's perspective
Irene Taylor Trust and Hear Me Out compare and reflect on our practice at the front line of prisons and asylum detention.
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Rene Cassin @renecassin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🎵New Promoting a Compassionate #Asylum System Podcast music🎵 Listen to the full song from @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social, along with hundreds of songs made by #Refugees and asylum seekers who have survived immigration #Detention in the UK. 🔗 hearmeoutmusic.org.uk/why-detainee... Podcast coming soon.
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"‘When is the next Thursday?’ That had been my dream all those times. Like I'm always dreaming about when that next session is coming..."
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“I came to the UK in 2022 because I was having some difficulties and a hard time - my life being in danger where I was living and that resulted in me having to move away. Initially, my notice was…
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Want to make a difference? We're looking for trustees for our mighty team - particularly people with lived experience of immigration or asylum, and/or fundraising from donors and major partners: hearmeoutmusic.org.uk/stories/seek... Info Zoom meeting: 2nd September Deadline: 15th September
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Away from the headlines, what's it really like for the human beings in asylum hotels? Read this @refugeecouncil.bsky.social story about one year ago: www.instagram.com/p/DMxsT9IMUjC/
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Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Listen again to our recent show on NTS Radio - one hour of music and chat from HMO:
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HEAR ME OUT 6th August 2025
Playing Folk, Indie Rock, Reggae, Soul Jazz. Hear Me Out run music and arts workshops with people held in the UK immigration system. Our artists deliver these workshops with adults and children…
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