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› CMVic Singing Camp 2019 at Amberley: Early Bird bookings now open!
30/Aug/2019
We're excited to announce that Early bird bookings for the 2019 CMVic Singing Camp at Amberley are now open! Until October 1st, this year's prices remain unchanged from 2017 - yes 2017! The camp is structured over two days, providing an opportunity to immerse yourself in song and leave enriched with heaps of great resources to use in your community. The camp is unique in that the program will emerge and develop around YOUR offers and requests: please let us know when you book what workshops you can offer or would like to take part in and we will do our best to include them. We can’t promise that Beyoncé will be available for an advanced vocal-technique-while-booty-dancing masterclass, but we can…
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› Threshold Choir Tecoma Offers Songs for the Dying
15/Aug/2019
For the close-knit community in the hills above Melbourne, comfort and support in the form of song will soon be available to those on the threshold of life, offered by a fledgling new group of singers, Threshold Choir, Tecoma, led by experienced singing leader, Barb Mcfarlane.
“I went to the Sacred Edge Festival about four years ago and there was a singing session which, of course, I went to. The woman leading it was from the Threshold Choir in Melbourne. Speaking with her afterwards I was fascinated by the idea of singing for the sick and the dying and immediately wanted to be part of it, but Melbourne Threshold Choir meets on a Wednesday night which is when my choir Vokallista rehearses.”
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› Hume Festival Season Stallholder, Vendor and Performer Applications Now Open
12/Sep/2019
Expressions of Interest are now open for those wishing to be a Stallholder, Food/ Beverage Vendor or Performer at the Hume City Council 2019/20 Festival Season. From clothes and crafts to food trucks and local talent, we need a variety of stallholders, vendors and performers to ensure our festivals are colourful, diverse…
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› African drums hit the right notes
12/Sep/2019
A harmonious group of Melbourne seniors are proving you can grow groovier with age Imagine if you could get together with a great group of people every Friday afternoon, relax, play some music, enjoy some lively conversation, and leave with your blood pressure lower, your arthritis eased, your memory improved,…
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› Organise your own Song Swap
29/Aug/2019
Whenever CMVic runs an event, we ask the participants for feedback and without fail responses relate to repertoire (more new songs) and networking (the opportunity to talk with people working in similar areas, to share problems, to learn!). A rewarding and easy way to achieve both objectives is with a Song Swap. I want to organise my own Song Swap! But how? A Song Swap is easy to organise. As few as four people can be successful although the more the merrier - and the more diverse the range of songs offered up. You need: a venue, a facilitator, a date, advertising Can CMVic help? YES!!!! We have a number of people who are skilled in running these events…
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› Want to place your group or event in our e-newsletter?
29/Aug/2019
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› The Peace Choir: A Sanctuary of Song in Castlemaine
29/Aug/2019
Not so quietly getting on with singing together in a little corner of its community is the Castlemaine Peace Choir. A beloved group, not particularly well known outside of the town, its spirit is forged by the values of inclusion and compassion which underpin it and are its reason for being. Peace Choir is a free, no-obligation community choir funded by philanthropy. The Peace Choir was born after a couple who manage a small philanthropic fund within the town made it their mission to embrace the people who look on from the sidelines of society, marginalised from the offerings of the mainstream because of mental illness or intellectual disability, and bring them into the frame. Motivated by the effects of…
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› National XR Choir
29/Aug/2019
We are building a national choir! In the decentralised spirit of XR, the plan is for new or existing choirs to all learn the same song so when we come together for big actions we are all ready to rock. Please find below a link to a dropbox folder called…
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› Whale Dreaming on Millowl : A short film by Terry Melvin
27/Aug/2019
If you couldn't make it to Phillip Island for the Intercultural Arts Program of the Whale Festival last month, here is an opportunity to catch up on the events of the weekend in a beautiful short film, by Terry Melvin, featuring many familiar faces from the CMVic network! A photostory of the event by Dr Laura Brearley, can be read here. "The Intercultural Arts Program of the 2019 island Whale Festival was a celebration of whales, oceans and creative, intercultural collaborations. It featured fourteen activities across three days and took place in Cowes on Phillip Island (Millowl) from the 5th to the 7th July, 2019. The Island Whale Festival is an annual event which celebrates the migration of whales in the coastal…
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› Turning bad singing experiences into good singing lessons
27/Aug/2019
Things go wrong from time to time, but it doesn’t have to be a bad experience. It’s possible to consider things from a different perspective and find the positive. Here’s how. Many people are “glass half empty” people. Even if you’re not, it’s easy to fall into this way of…