ConnectsMusic is asking all of our community members to read and sign the open letter regarding the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama junior school. RWCMD is considering closing the young RWCMD, which includes weekly Junior Conservatoire and Young Actors Studio sessions. It is important that the junior school is saved, so let us all get involved by reading and signing this letter. Read the letter below.

”We, the undersigned, are extremely concerned by Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) proposals to close Young RWCMD.

This would bring an end to its weekly Junior Conservatoire and Young Actors Studio sessions from the end of this academic year. It is the only provision of its kind in Wales. Over 300 current students will be affected.

Parents have been informed that RWCMD expects the changes to affect the academic year starting in September. This does not leave enough time to search for alternative models and/or funding sources to be found, or meaningful consultation with the 118 staff affected. And what are current and prospective students supposed to do?

As signatories to this letter, we believe in:

• Access to high level music education provision and opportunity for all
• Celebrating artistic tradition
• Creating opportunities for and supporting new and diverse voices
• Bringing Welsh culture to a global stage.

We call on RWCMD to:

1. Continue Young RWCMD for the next year academic year while alternative models and/or funding sources can be found
2. Engage in meaningful collective consultation on proposals to close Young RWCMD with staff affected as part of this process and their representative bodies, including the Musicians’ Union.”

SIGN THE LETTER HERE:

https://musiciansunion.typeform.com/to/bXmpwYBU