@deliaderbyshireday
MCR based electronic music charity centred around the archive & work pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), addressing inequalities in the creative/heritage industries. https://deliaderbyshireday.com/
Creative freedom! Experimentation, risk-taking…A striking finding in our Electronic Music Education report written by @brightersound.bsky.social; initiative supported by @biggive.bsky.social, Postlethwaite Music Foundation, One Education.
SHARE YR STORY of electronic music & creative freedom 🪩
Hi there, we are happy to report our 2025 10th anniversary project was a success. Thanks to everyone involved, including National Lottery players who helped us inspire and empower thousands of people.
🗞️ Find out more in our new newsletter 🗞️ mailchi.mp/68a1fa58086d... @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
Poster with dark blue background and words: electronic music education - Manchester’s primary schools - needs analysis report. A book icon below, then band of logos at the bottom: postlethwaite music Foundation, Bug Give Arts for Impact, Delia Derbyshire Day, One education Music, Brighter Sound
📣Our Electronic Music Education Report is out 📣 10 teachers, 60 kids. There is a gap. It is bridgeable. Read summary & full report: deliaderbyshireday.com/education/ @biggive.bsky.social Report by @brightersound.bsky.social @oneeducation.bsky.social
Organisational objective 3 (of 3) 🤓✅ OPPORTUNITIES - say hi if you are one of them ✊🏽
As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report.
➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/about-us/
Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
Organisational objective 2 (of 3) 🤓✅
As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report.
➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia...
Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
Organisational objective 1 (of 3) 🤓✅
As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report.
➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia...
Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
We published our Social Impact Report carried out by Turn Up the Value, designed by Andrea Pazos 🤓🌟
Read our social impact report on DD Day website here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia...
With thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund
Background image credit: Kara Blake
🎧 DD Day podcast 🎧 @carocsound, David Butler and @sashwatimira chat about the origin story and aims of our small charity centred around the archive of #deliaderbyshire at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social. Look us up on podcast platforms or listen via our website 🔊
The Barrow-phonic workshop performance is shown. 3 people sit at tables at the side of the performance space surrounded by tech. In the foreground, someone in a green winter hat reaches towards a large green lampshade.
Commissioned artists ZOLATEC and hippiezilla sit at their tech desk with computers in front of them. They are bathed in green light.
Commissioned artist Suzy Mangion is shown in profile as she explains her commission.
Audience members are seated in the middle of the performance space and are surrounded by desks filled with tech for members of the Barrow-phonic workshop. Everyone is smiling and clapping.
📍We went to Barrow-in-Furness to deliver a weekend of DD Day events
➡️Did you know you can book us for screenings, performances, talks and workshops!
A big thank you to the Full of Noises team, National Lottery Heritage Fund and everyone who came along for making this possible
📸Laurence Campbell
Young Identity are currently seeking a new Chair and other Trustees to join our board. Our new Trustees may come from many walks of life and we do not require prior board-level experience.
Application Deadline: 6 April 2026
Interviews: 20 - 21 April 2026
Apply: youngidentity.org/get-involved
Our podcast: The education episode with Zolatec, Mandy Wigby & Caro C - unpacking how and why we facilitate learning to make music the #deliaderbyshireday way, inspired by the heritage of this woman pioneer. Listen on all podcast platforms.
Commissioned artist ZOLATEC plays the steel pan in the foreground in MCR Central Library’s foyer. Audience members gather to watch in the background.
DD Day volunteer in a grey DD Day t-shirt welcomes an audience member to the event. Information posters about DD Day fill the wall behind them.
The film screening room. A projector screen takes up a full wall and is filled with bright green leafy images. Audience members watch from seats and artists ZOLATEC and hippiezilla are seen at a control desk at the side of the room.
A group photo of facilitators, commissioned artists, volunteers, and trustees all smile and are bunched in together.
Photos from our MCR event are here 🤓🎉 a massive thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate and all those involved to make this happen!
🙏📸Shirlaine Forrest
Made possible thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners
Relaxed group photo of Changing Gear selected artists Diya Tailor, Rosie Parsons and Rhiannon Kenny McGrath standing laughing in front of a dark blue vintage train at the National Railway Museum.
🚂Plus there’s highlights of last month’s amazing Changing Gear concert at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social and a look at how our friends at @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social celebrated turning 10 recently.
⏩If you’re not already subscribed, read it here: mailchi.mp/e83efdae2f6a...
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Ever wondered where the Delia Derbyshire and Delia Derbyshire Day archives are kept? Come with us to the Special Collections Room at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social in Manchester, England
#deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #archives #heritage
📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
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A huge thank you to everyone who celebrated and supported DD Day 2025 this year 🎉
With many thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners
🎥 Andrea Pazos
#deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire
📣2025 Creative Commission 3!
After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear Alexis Maxwell talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with Joy Ingle 🎥🎵
Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
📣2025 Creative Commission 2!
After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, Andrea Pazos talks about new audio-visual work with Suzy Mangion @turningcircle.bsky.social inspired by heritage at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Full commission on website. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
📣2025 Creative Commission 1!
After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear ZOLATEC talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with hippiezilla 🎥🎵
Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
Next stop Barrow-in-Furness! We are taking our new creative commissions inspired by heritage on tour, to @fullofnoises.bsky.social. Come see us if you're in the area!
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
🔊📽️ NEW ART 📽️🔊 Creative responses to heritage by 6 Northwest England based artists. Gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
Check them out via our DD Day 2025 webpage: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-... think @turningcircle.bsky.social artist Suzy Mangion is the only one on here.
🎛️🥳 Happy Delia Derbyshire 🥳🎛️ lots of stuff on our website! deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-...
📣 Commission trailer 3! Joy Ingle and Alexis Maxwell have completed their new audio-visual work 🎥🎵
Our 2025 artists dove into the DD and DD Day Archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social with new creativity relating to heritage.
Gratefully supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
📣 Commission trailer 2! As DD Day 2025 approaches, so does new art inspired by the heritage of Delia Derbyshire and DD Day Archives at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Look out for videos on 23 Nov & see this piece screened at MCR Central Library on Sat. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
A message from our 2025 Project Coordinator 🤓🎵
Join us at MCR Central Library on Sat 22 Nov from 2-4pm to make, play and explore!
For more details, head over to the DD Day website here: deliaderbyshireday.com/events
With thanks to ZolaSteelPan and support from National Lottery Heritage Fund
Manchester people! Relax in a listening pod at Central Library and absorb some #deliaderbyshireday music commissions responding to the #deliaderbyshire & our archives which live at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Sorry, it turns out our podcast is not yet on usual #podcast platforms - it will be soon tho! You can listen via our website for now :)
🎙️Our first #podcast series🎙️episode 3 is out today. Listen via our website or on your usual podcast platform. We hope you enjoy, learn, be inspired 🤓 #electronicmusicpodcast
Manchester Event Poster. Image of girl holding large green lampshade surrounded by clouds. Text says: Play, Learn, Make. 22 November 2025 2-4pm Central Library Manchester www.deliaderbyshireday.com
Our 10th Anniversary Manchester Event Poster! 🎟️🤓
📷:Thank you to Andrea Pazos for designing the poster and our wonderful 2025 volunteer Tillie for her ‘10th’ tape logo design featured at the top 🙌
With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners
