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› CMVic announces exciting new Leadership Program: A project for the people
11/Apr/2019
You’re going to bend it, you’re going to make it, you’re going to recreate it and it’s going to turn into your style and yourmethod and your system in your community; it’s about making community music in your community in the way that suits it best. – Jane Coker, Community Music Victoria The information-gathering phase of an exciting new CMVic driven Leadership Program is gathering pace, steered by the Gippsland-based, community music dream-team, Jane Coker and Lyndal Chambers. With funding from Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, the duo will design a proposal for a new state-wide community music leadership program based on what people who are passionate about the power of group music making tell them is needed, to stimulate the growth of inclusive singing and instrumental music…
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› The story of ‘Lingmarra’ and the CMVic network
14/Mar/2019
**This article and the following story contains references to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who have died. It also contains words from the language of Australian Kriol. Permission has been sought and given for its use in this context. Lingmarra, a beautiful song about coming together was brought to the CMVic network by Barlang T. E. Lewis, a Murrungun man, actor, singer and songwriter from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, who first learned it as a traditional song from the Dalabon Corroborree, Bongiliny Bongiliny. Lingmarra is a song which enchants singers and listeners alike and one which Flip Case, a Melbourne based singing leader has taught to singing groups many times: “It’s a song that feels ethereal and earthy at the same time,…
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› Gippsland Acoustic Music Club News & Events
23/Feb/2019
“Vocal Nosh” (Singing & soup/bread/fruit dinner): Tyers Hall, Main Road, Tyers at 5:30pm (pls arrive by 5.15) on Sun 3rd March led by Jenny Wolswinkel Vocal Nosh Entry: $10. Under 18 free. Diary: ♪ Tues 5 th Mar: Committee meeting at Nola’s ♪ Sun 7 th April Clubnight: Michael Waugh…
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› Are you good with numbers? CMVic is recruiting a Finance Volunteer!
18/Feb/2019
If a perfectly reconciled spreadsheet floats your boat, we have a volunteer role just for you! CMVic is seeking a number-crunching, data-loving volunter to work alongside our Finance and Adminstration Coordinator for a couple of hours each Thursday from the end of April. This role would suit anyone with experience of accounting or book-keeping. The Finance volunteer will work in conjunction with the Finance and Administration Coordinator to see to the proper and timely recording of CMVic’s income and expenditure, to the prompt payment of invoices, and to the regular reconciliation of accounts. Familiarity with Reckon accounting software is preferred. For a full job description click here. If you have any questions or to register your interest, please email the CMVic Volunteers Coordinator, Deb…
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› Art education improves students’ academic and social development
22/Apr/2019Art education improves students’ academic and social development, study finds - A new study from the Houston Education Research Consortium — a partnership between Rice University and Houston-area schools — has found an initiative to expand arts education in elementary and middle schools improved students’ academic and emotional development. The… -
› Voicing - one size does not fit all
22/Apr/2019Every individual has their own unique voice and particular range. To some extent we can change things like the quality of our voice or the lowest and highest notes we can sing with practice. But there will always be a physiological limit to what we can do. Plus we all… -
› How to warm up your voice on the bus (or any other public space)
22/Apr/2019How to warm up your voice on the bus (or any other public space), written for "From the Front of the Choir" by Chris Rowbury Apr 15, 2019. Website: chrisrowbury.com Sometimes we don’t get the chance to do a full warm up in private before a performance. Here are some ideas for… -
› The Lyrebird Gift
11/Apr/2019
Lyrebird have made many financial donations to local groups and associations over the years, and we're very proud to have organised the fund raising event for Black Saturday some years ago that raised over $40,000. Lyrebird have been honoured to have been in a position to give back to the community where possible. In celebration of our 20th anniversary there is one community we wish to give an extra gift to – the music community. The Lyrebird Gift is a one-off gift of $20,000 to a musician or band. In keeping with our core beliefs, philosophy and approach to all we have done in the past 20 years, the application process to be the recipient of The…
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› Creativity Australia offering 10 grants of up to $10,000 to start up your own With One Voice choir.
11/Apr/2019
The closing date for round 10 applications is 5:00 pm, Sunday 30th June 2019. Click here for our guidelines and the online application form. We are on the search for people/organisations who are: Community movers and shakers; Passionate about community wellbeing and the arts; and Want to create meaningful change and a more inclusive and just society. Local community groups, social businesses and not-for-profits wanting to promote social inclusion and tackle loneliness, isolation, depression and disadvantage in their community are invited to apply. ABOUT US Creativity Australia (www.creativityaustralia.org.au) is building a happier, healthier, more inclusive nation through the life-changing With One Voice program. We bridge the gap between people experiencing disadvantage and those more fortunate through the neuro-scientific…
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› The Lyrebird Gift
04/Apr/2019
Lyrebird have made many financial donations to local groups and associations over the years, and we're very proud to have organised the fund raising event for Black Saturday some years ago that raised over $40,000. Lyrebird have been honoured to have been in a position to give back to the community…