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Change the Record Panel

Hear from incredible women making waves across the North of England.

Headshots of Pops Roberts, Rivca Burns, Jasmin Kent Rodgman and Rebecca Shaw on a multicoloured background with circular indents representing a vinyl record.
When
Saturday 16 November, 6.30-8pm
Where
Longsight Community Art Space
Part of the Initiative
All Things Equal
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Join us at Longsight Community Art Space for an hour-long panel featuring:

  • Pops Roberts (aka Private Joy, producer and Ableton Certified trainer)
  • Rivca Burns (creative producer and Head of Music at Factory International)
  • Jasmin Kent Rodgman (composer and Co-Artistic Director of Manchester Collective)
  • Rebecca Shaw (promoter, The White Hotel)

Hosted by Brighter Sound, speakers will discuss their careers and personal experiences, the music ecosystem in the North, leading change in the music industries and more.

This event is free to attend and open to all genders.

  • Longsight Community Art Space
    89 Northmoor Road                                                         
    Longsight
    M12 5RT

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    The venue is in a residential area so parking is on the neighbouring streets.

    Bus 150 stops outside the venue and Levenshulme train station is a 15 minute walk.

    There is an off-site disabled toilet available to use, and the venue is accessible by wheelchair/level access throughout.

  • Headshot of artist Pops Roberts

    Pops Roberts

  • Headshot of Rivca Burns

    Rivca Burns

  • Headshot of Jasmin Kent Rodgman

    Jasmin Kent Rodgman

  • Headshot of Rebecca Shaw

    Rebecca Shaw

  • A key player in the UK soul and electronic scenes, Pops is a producer, vocalist and Ableton Certified trainer specializing in workflow, creative strategies in production with a particular focus on vocalists in production.

    Pops has worked and mentored for the British Arts Council, Saffron Records, CreateDefineRelease, Virtuouso along with many more music charities, institutes and brands.

    As a producer and vocalist, Pops goes by the moniker of Private Joy and is bandleader to the ‘Lovescene’ collective.

  • Rivca has officially worked within the music industry as a freelance creative producer for the past 15 years. She is currently the Director of From the Other, home to Sounds From the Other City, Fat Out Fest and Samarbeta Music Residency programme.

    As well as Head of Music for Factory International. She is co-chair of the Greater Manchester Music Commission and was voted Manchester’s Cultural Hero by both City Life 2020 & Association for Independent Music 2021.

    Previous roles have included working within venues, record labels, gig promotion, festivals and PR companies.

  • British-Malaysian composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman's music exists between the contemporary classical, experimental, electronic music and sound art worlds. An interdisciplinary artist and collaborator across art-forms, Jasmin often constructs environments worlds for her music to be experienced in including site-specific performances, installations, experimental theatre and film.

    Activism is central to Jasmin's work. Her music often explores otherness vs connectivity and investigates ideas centred around the female body, race and cultural heritage.

    Jasmin is also Co-Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Manchester Collective, known for their imaginative programming, daring collaborations and engaging performances.

  • Rebecca Shaw spent 10 years in the D.I.Y. Club music scene putting on the most fringe elements of percussive, visceral, body-moving music she could find in London and oft-overlooked South-East outposts while concurrently trying to connect this with the global club scene. She formed these connections through collectives such as Classical Trax and Club Late Music, helping to found seminal mix series & “net-label” JEROME and moving to Manchester.

    In 2021 she founded the recently-defunct alt-queer club collective Tough Act & since 2022 has worked at The White Hotel. As of 2024 she is an Alumni of the Unsound Lab Summer School and has started her new project NEW WORLD alongside former members of Tough Act. In her free time Rebecca likes to play video games, read books, write poetry and stare off into the middle distance.

Part of Change the Record, an eight-month learning programme for women (cis and trans) working in the music industries, supported by Sony Music.

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