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• Inclusive Music Ensemble understands that Higher Education Institutes are a culture and everyone has the right to equal access to education and culture.
• We facilitate social and cultural interaction between everyone in Inclusive Music Ensemble through music and performance.

The Inclusive Music Ensemble (IME) collection of college courses commenced in late 2021.  Many of the learners have disabilities, intellectual and physical, ranging from moderate to profound, that would usually exclude them from partaking in Higher Education Institution activities.

IME consists of several programmes of learning being co-delivered in a single inclusive classroom setting in MTU Cork School of Music (CSM). IME strives to be an inclusive initiative for artistic & creative expression, participation, and education. We welcome a diverse mix of participants of various levels of ability in the ensemble and it facilitates social and cultural interaction between everyone involved through the medium of music and performance.

 

 

• Inclusive Music Ensemble is a collaboration between Munster Technological University and Cork Education and Training Board.
• We have courses to study at level 3, level 6, and level 8. You can also join just for fun.
• Munster Technological University is also called MTU.

IME is a collaborative partnership between Munster Technological University and Cork Education and Training Board to enable the sustainable offering of academic credit in a higher education institution (HEI) to those who would not usually have access to a university.  IME participants can partake for academic credit at level 3, level 6, and level 8. It is also possible to join the group simply to make music and engage without academic credit through CSM's conservatoire system. We are currently developing more avenues for engagment.

 

 

 

 

• Inclusive Music Ensemble tries to be an inclusive place for artistic & creative expression, participation, and education.
• Inclusive Music Ensemble meets once or twice per week - depending on the course you do. We mainly meet on Thursday evenings and some students also come to us on Monday afternoons.
• All the classes occur in Cork School of Music, which is a part of MTU and is in Cork City centre. It it often called CSM.
• All participants in Inclusive Music Ensemble have access to Cork School of Music classrooms and college student common room.

IME released a short film in collaboration with the Irish National Opera and Everyman Theatre in May 2024!

IME released its first recordings in October 2023. You can listen to them on all the major music streaming platforms or watch the live studio sessions here!

IME evolved through understanding that Higher Education Institutes are a specific culture. As stated by the UN Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities, everyone has the right to equal access to both education and culture. Article 24  recognises the right of persons with disabilities to education and that ensures an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning. Article 30 recognises the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life and that the appropriate measures shoud be taken to enable persons with disabilities to have the opportunity to develop and utilize their creative, artistic and intellectual potential, not only for their own benefit, but also for the enrichment of society. The European Pillar of Social Rights (ESPR) states that everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society

 

contact Hugh.McCarthy@mtu.ie for more details