Curious Minds

More Music Needs Your Vote - My Generation

More Music have recently been announced finalists of ITV's People's Millions awards with their bid to bring a two week festival of arts, music and culture for the older generation to the region.

On Monday, June 27th More Music will go head-to-head with other charities in the north west to win funding for a multi venue festival dubbed  'My Generation: A festival of Art, Music and Culture by and for the Young at Heart.'

More Music and Curious Minds would really appreciate it if you might get behind the campaign to celebrate creativity in older age. 

On June 27th ,the voting phone number will be published in The Daily Mirror, on The People's Millions website http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/ and The More Music site www.moremusic.org.uk . More Music have between 9am and 12 midnight to get as many votes as possible! 

More Music will appear on Granada Reports on June 27th with a public appeal for votes and they need as many people as possible to phone in on the day and vote for them!

Calls cost 11p from a BT landline and people can vote 10 times from the same number

My Generation: A festival of Art, Music and Culture by and for the Young at Heart

My Generation celebrates creativity in old age, proving that art, music and culture will always play a valid and important role in your life, no matter how many candles are on your birthday cake.

The two-week, multi venue event will showcase the talents and creativity of both first-time and professional older artists and hope to change perceptions about old age.

Over the course of a year it will be planned and curated by the young at heart, for the young at heart facilitated by acclaimed community arts organisation More Music.

With some of the world's most inspirational artists, such as Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bridget Riley and David Hockney all over 65, My Generation wants to twist and shout about some of the most talented creatives of the last 60 Jubilee years.

My Generation will break down the stereotypes surrounding old age, allowing people over 55 to explore their creative talents and reap the physical and mental health benefits of cultural activity.

This first annual festival will forge the future for an event that will continue for generations, celebrating the arts in older life for years to come.