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› Pumping Out Songs with the CFA Community Choir
19/Aug/2020
“I really only work through the arts, and I think that community resilience and bonding and all of those things can come through the arts.” This conviction combined with a natural ability to strategise and inspire people has led Margaret Summerton to find herself holding a position of responsibility for CFA Volunteers and Sustainability across the South East Region of Victoria; an area of the State covering 2 million hectares, from Bairnsdale to Mallacoota, Omeo to Lakes Entrance. This region was hit hard by the devastating bushfires, last summer. “It was burnt to a crisp here, 60% of our land mass was burned and as happens with bushfires and disasters we continue to be heavily affected in so many…
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› Lovely songs from NVN
26/Sep/2020
The Natural Voice Network brings out a newsletter once a month in the UK. In the September Issue 2020, they have published a few lovely songs. You can view/listen to these at www.naturalvoice.net, or check out the following links! Never Doubt - by the Campaign Choirs Network, using the…
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› How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music
18/Sep/2020
Music, with its profound and complex effects on the human brain—from reducing symptoms of pain and depression to lowering blood pressure and stress levels—can have powerful and transformative effects on the lives of people, including those who are the most marginalized. As choral and orchestral conductor André de Quadros…
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› For Folk’s Sake let’s have a Sing!
18/Sep/2020
A National "folk choir" to keep the tribe together and singing during covid with Christina Mimmocchi Nothing beats that surging feeling of singing together in a group - be it your local choir, the session bar or campfire. And nothing beats meeting up with the tribe at our beloved folk festivals. …
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› Music for Special Green and Blue Places: Call Out to Composers and Musicians
17/Sep/2020
The Coastal Connections project is now commissioning original musical compositions for a series of six short films about people’s special places in the natural world. In the first stage of the project, community members from Bass Coast were invited to write 150 words or less about a place in the natural world that was special to them. Thirty-six creative contributions were submitted and the project’s Working Group has selected fourteen of the submissions to be incorporated into six short films. The films will incorporate footage of the special places as well as interviews with community members about what their special places mean to them. An overview of the films can be seen here. Composers selected for…
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› Music Victoria nominated for Best Global Music Office
08/Sep/2020
Music Victoria nominated for Best Global Music Office in the inaugural Music Cities Awards. Music Victoria has been nominated in the top three Best Global Music Offices in the inaugural Music Cities Awards. The award is for the music office that can showcase unrivalled support for music, musicians and music businesses in their…
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› Growing Community Music: Project Update
02/Sep/2020
The next phase of CMVic’s Growing Community Music project (GCM) is gaining momentum, following the path forward which emerged from stage 1 to increase and encourage greater participation in community music making, across Victoria. The vision for stage 2 is a large-scale program to grow the number of music leaders, groups and participants in many different settings, including necessary training programs, mentoring, resourcing and advocacy. Once funding is secured, the plan is to employ catalysts in three regions: East Gippsland, Mildura Regional City, and City of Casey and the shire of Cardinia. John Howard, CMVic’s Finance and Admin Coordinator and a member of the GCM steering group explains, “there’s a group in Mallacoota who have put in an application for…
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› Rapid Assessment of the Pandemic’s Effects on Community Music in Victoria: An invitation to Leaders
02/Sep/2020
The CMVic team is planning how to continue to support community music leaders through these pandemic times. We have heard from many of you about how you are managing out there, and about your hopes and concerns for the future. Right now, we need to add some further strong evidence that we can use for planning and also to persuade funders. To gather this information, we are inviting community music leaders to take a short survey. Your answers will help us to track some of the changes in community music participation that have occurred as a consequence of the pandemic over the past year. We are keen to hear from all leaders, no matter how much or how little you have been doing…
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› Amberley Online: Save the Date!
31/Aug/2020
The scent of blossom on the breeze and the beginning of September must mean that it’s nearly time for the CMVic Singing Camp. With this year being what it is, (yes, that) we’ll be heading to Amberley Online and you’re all invited! AMBERLEY ONLINE 2020 (CMVic Singing Camp) Saturday 17 October 1pm til late Online In recognition of the fact it’s been a tough few months and to make it as accessible as possible, Amberley Online 2020 will be offered as a FREE event with the option to 'pay as you can' at the point of registration. Any contributions will be hugely welcomed! Come and gather around the virtual campfire for an afternoon and evening of online workshops designed for…
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› ‘Live Lunch’ links to previous sessions
31/Aug/2020
Have you missed the opportunity to attend Singing Leaders Lounge Live Lunch events, hosted by Craig Barrie? Pas de probleme! Here's an opportunity to listen to them all over again.
7-July-2020: Creativity Australia’s guidelines and risk management processes for returning to singing in person (Lydia Griffiths, Creativity Australia) (Link to Zoom mp4 recording)
30-Jun-2020: Innovative online choir leading to keep participants engaged (Loz Irwin and Jane York) (Link to Zoom mp4 recording)
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