Music Support Team Up With Aim At The Great Escape 2018
18 April 2018 - Press release‘Safe Tent’ Initiative Celebrates UK Mental Health Awareness Week
Music Support, the specialist emotional, behavioural, mental health and addictions charity for the UK music industry, has announced a new partnership with The Association of Independent Music (AIM), that will see ‘Safe Tents’ being available to delegates during this year’s The Great Escape convention.
Taking place in Brighton between May 17th-19th, The Great Escape is a city-based music festival featuring over 450 bands performing in over 30 of Brighton’s best live music venues across 3 days.
Running alongside the live music side of things is The Great Escape Convention, the UK’s leading convention for new music business. Consisting of business seminars, insightful panel discussions, topical debates, case studies and high-end keynote speeches, mixed with targeted networking sessions, parties and sponsored lunches, The Great Escape Convention is aimed at experienced music industry delegates looking to form new business partnerships and expand existing networks with established new partners.
During the event AIM, which represents over 850 independent music companies in the UK, will be hosting ‘AIM House’ at The Queens Hotel in central Brighton, with a full programme of panels, receptions and showcases taking place across the 3 days.
As part of ‘AIM House’ Music Support will be providing a ‘Safe Tent’ area at The Queens Hotel, which will be staffed by trained Music Support volunteers and will provide delegates with a space to be quiet, or to be amongst other people who also want to discuss or share their recovery and knowledge.
The Music Support Safe Tent Initiative has had a presence at UK music festivals since summer 2017 providing places of refuge for people working at the events who need a break from intense backstage pressures and demands in a stimulant-free environment.
The Great Escape 2018 also coincides with UK Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs from 14th-20th May.
Samantha Parker, a founding trustee of Music Support said, “We are grateful to the team at AIM for giving us the opportunity to provide a Safe Tent at The Great Escape this year. It’s important that delegates at this type of event have an opportunity to get some respite from the hurly burly of the convention and to talk to someone in a relaxed and informal environment about any concerns or anxieties they may be experiencing.”
Paul Pacifico, CEO of AIM said, “Music Support are doing very important work in the field of mental health and addiction and AIM fully supports their efforts. To be able to celebrate and raise the visibility of UK Mental Health Awareness Week by offering a Music Support Safe Tent for visitors to AIM House at The Great Escape this year is something we are proud to be involved in.”
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