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› ‘Live Lunch’ links to previous sessions
30/Sep/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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› Singing Stories for the Fun of Folk
30/Sep/2020
‘Non-stop Australian folk music’ was the soundtrack to Martie Lowenstein’s childhood. Martie, whose mother Wendy Lowenstein was an author, oral historian and co-founder of the Victorian Bush Music Club, is now using the folk songs she heard as a child and incorporating them into an online music history course called ‘History of Australia in Song 1788-1988’. Read more...
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› Grants & Funding Opportunities
30/Sep/2020Australia Council Grant Programs: Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups - $10,000 - $50,000 Arts Projects – Organisations - $20,000 - $100,000 Fellowships - $80,000 City of Melbourne / Annual Arts Grants / Close 28 September https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/strategies-support/funding/arts-grants/Pages/arts-grants.aspx Regional Arts Victoria: RAF Quick Response Grants – up to $2,000 for Individuals, $4,000 for…
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› Regional Arts Victoria’s Creative Recovery Small Grants program
30/Sep/2020
Regional Arts Victoria’s Creative Recovery Small Grants program closes on 31 October. It is directed to 6 local government areas most affected by bushfires – Alpine, East Gippsland, Indigo, Mansfield, Towong, and Wangaratta. The program offers grants of up to $5000 for individuals or groups in those areas for creative projects, replacement of lost small artist tools and equipment, rental of premises to continue to work on creative practice, planning for future programs or re-opening events, presentation or touring costs, technology and equipment to enable online/digital content to be delivered, and professional development. Details are at http://www.rav.net.au/funding-opportunities/creative-recovery-small-grants-program/. Before applying you need to speak with the appropriate RAV staff member. If you or your group are not incorporated or…
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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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› Draft Road Map to COVID Normal for Community Music Makers
24/Sep/2020
Community Music Victoria is actively speaking to Victorian Government Representatives about a best practice, safe return to community music-making as restrictions ease across regional and (potentially) metropolitan areas of the state. As we continue to learn about COVID-19 transmission, it is preferable to take a precautionary approach to protect the community until further information becomes available. Before you decide how to proceed, check the advice and what the legal requirements are: From 11.59pm on Wednesday 16 September Third Step restrictions apply throughout regional Victoria. From 11:59pm on Sunday 13 September First Step restrictions apply in metropolitan Melbourne. The recommendations in the table below are suggestions only for a return to community music-making. If you would like more clarity, we suggest you…
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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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› 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…