Welcome to CultureMix
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CultureMix Arts is an organisation specialising in the steel pan music and carnival arts experience with a focus on young people. We nurture high quality orchestras and provide artist training with a far-reaching education and professional development programme.
We strive to widely promote and raise awareness of the benefits of participation in the carnival arts and music sector, by encouraging access, education, participation, and artistic professional development locally, nationally and internationally.
The CultureMix Centre for Steel Pan Music is home to RASPO - Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra whose past projects and performances include a live appearance on BBC Children in Need Appeal, ITV's Rosie & Jim and CBBC's Level Up. The orchestra has performed at numerous carnivals and international festivals including WOMAD UK and 'Olinda Carnaval' in Brasil.
03 JULY 2009
Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra's bookings diary is filling up. Click here for confirmed dates of RASPO's public performances for 2009. More...

Showcase artists
27 MAY 2009
RASPO join the Reading Community Carnival street procession. See more photos here and on Facebook. More...

RASPO players join BBC bus at Reading Carnival 2009
09 MAY 2009
RASPO presents the Culture Mix Live Showcase at South Street Arts Centre. More...

Tanisha on sax
04 FEBRUARY 2009
Want to learn to play steel pan music? Check 2009 dates and times here.
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bass jump
07 APRIL 2009
More than sixty young people attended a meeting at the Abbey Gateway to sign up for Reading Refocus project to help young people into education, employment or training (EET). The young people had an opportunity to address the passing of Juan Claude MkKenley 18, who died from a knife attack at outside Broad Street Mall on Thursday 2 April 2009. More...

Refocus Group April 2009
03 APRIL 2009
Check past events, press releases and photos here... More...

RASPO Reading Carnival 2008
26 MAY 2008
The summer has finally arrived with an unprecedented demand for performances from the increasingly popular Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra (RASPO). The 2008 performance season launched with the Engine Room Collective at South Street Arts Centre on 4 May. More...

Pan Close Up
"RASPO to play at WOMAD Festival Charlton Park 25 July 2009.Read more..."
Watch RASPO's archive of video showing live television features from the last ten years. more...
Find our more about carnival costume, steel pan music workshops and cultural music services for schools. more... >