April Meet-up announced – Curating Your Press Kit: the Importance of PR and Visual Content

Next session: Thursday 24 April 2025, 7pm UK time. Curating your press kit: the importance of PR and visual content.

You’ve got your next single, EP, or album ready to go, and you’re super happy with how it sounds. But what other digital assets could you be creating to help promote your release?

We are excited to announce our next Monthly Meet-up, featuring a panel discussion exploring how independent artists develop their image and brand alongside their music, bringing audiences into their world through visual and written content.

We will be welcoming:

Ben Price – Artist Manager and Music Industry Professional,
Michelle Kambasha – Music Publicist and Journalist,
Sydney Kaster – Music Journalist at Shine a Light PR.

The session will explore a range of topics including:

What stands out to the panel when checking out new artists, in addition to their music.
Tips for maximising your release strategy as a blind or partially sighted musician.
Approaches to creating a electronic press kit independently.
Approaches to collaborating with others to harmonise your visual assets with your sound.

Key info

The session will last around 60 minutes, with a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion. This will be a relaxed, informal event and audience participation is encouraged. We will be prioritising questions submitted in advance of the event, so we advise that you contact us with any questions you may have so that we can ensure that they are included.

Please note that this session will be recorded and published on podcasting platforms, so if you contribute during the session, you are consenting to appearing in the recording. This session is open to all ages, but we advise that children or young people wishing to attend the session should be accompanied by an adult.

We hope to see you there!

Register for this Meet-up Session

About the Meet-up Sessions

Sound Without Sight is a community-led initiative, which collates and commissions resources to support blind and partially sighted musicians, audio engineers, voiceover artists, and other industry professionals to thrive. We want Sound Without Sight to grow into a thriving community that showcases the work of blind and partially sighted creatives, and how they navigated the industry to find themselves in their current role.

Starting in February 2024, we will be curating monthly virtual Meet-up Sessions, which will bring together established professionals, community members who are just starting out, and everybody in between, creating a space to share knowledge, solutions, and tips for success.

The sessions will be open, informal, and supportive – we hope that all attendees will feel comfortable to ask questions as well as share advice. Please sign up via the link at the end of this page, as spaces are limited.

How will the Meet-ups be structured?

Each session will begin with a live interview between a headline guest speaker or panel and members of the Sound Without Sight team. The host will ask curated questions, including relevant ones submitted in advance by the community.
We will then open up to questions and discussion between attendees, which could be about anything related to music or audio.
Finally, we will round off the session by playing out audio submissions and sharing updates from community members. Got a new release coming out? Tried something new or achieved something that you’d like to share? Let us know at least a week before the session and we’ll carve out time to shout about it!

When and where?

Third Thursday of the month, 7:00pm UK time. Sessions will take place on Zoom and last around an hour, followed by some open Q&A time.

Previous Meet-up recordings

Recordings from previous sessions are published to the Sound Without Sight podcast. You can access this at the podcasting platforms listed below, or continue to browse individual episodes.