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› Does Music Improve Overall Health and Well-Being? (CMVic says yes!)
21/Apr/2022
Summary: Listening to music helps improve mood and decreases anxiety, regardless of the genre. Researchers found listening to music elicits similar autonomic nervous system activation patterns people experience as a result of exercise. Findings reveal clinically significant improvements in well-being and health-related quality of life associated with music engagement. Source: University of…
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› The CMVic Shop never shuts!
31/Mar/2022
The CMVic online store has many wonderful resources lining its virtual shelves, including The Ukestration Manual and The Business of being a Community Musician by Mark Jackson and Jane Jelbart, and Just Sing and Just Sing Rounds songbooks aimed at community singing groups and choirs, by Jane Coker and Val Regan. The Ukestration Manual: Want to go beyond hum’n’strum? Want to deal with music-making humans more effectively? 100+ pages packed with knowledge, practical solutions and reflections based on ten years of teaching and leading ukulele. Click here The Business of Being a Community Musician: Let people value you as…
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› CMVic is moving!
31/Mar/2022
CMVic is upping clapsticks and moving from Ross House in Melbourne’s Flinders Lane to Collingwood Yards to cowork alongside the Music Victoria team. Collingwood Yards is a not for profit arts organisation and precinct, on the former site of the Collingwood Technical School campus. Set back from Johnston street, the re-purposed buildings give off a mellow red-brick vibe while a leafy tree-lined square offers dappled light, somewhere to sit and a place to buy coffee. As well as the lovely folk at Music Victoria, our new neighbours include The Push, PBS 106.7fm, the Victorian Music Development Office and…
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› Join us at Camberwell Chorale!
31/Mar/2022
Camberwell Chorale is a non-auditioned community choir, which has been delighting audiences with the presentation of quality choral music since 1944. Each performance is in association with the skilled musicians of the Camerata Orchestra and some of Melbourne’s most talented soloists, and our Musical Director for the last 48 years,…
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› Want to place your group or event in our e-newsletter?
28/Mar/2022
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› Small Project Grants from City of Yarra
21/Mar/2022
Applications are open for City of Yarra Small Project Grants - quick response grants for community groups and artists running projects in Yarra. Council has invested $95,000 into community programs, events and artistic projects through the 2021/22 Small Project Grant Program. Applicants may receive one Small Project Grant up to $1,000 per…
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› Is it weird to sing my kids lullabies? Maybe, but science is clear about the benefits
21/Mar/2022
When my eldest daughter was just a few months old, I threw her in a carrier and took her on a train to visit my friend, the chorus of Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves looping in my head. I arrived, giddy and smug in the notion that my adorable…
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› Hitting the high notes: the lessons of all singing from the same sheet
21/Mar/2022
Singing in harmony with others is a joyful thing, even in difficult times There is something about singing in public that solicits everyone’s attention instantly and demands a reaction. It makes its own weather system wherever it happens. Even singing that is wildly off-tempo…
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› POSSUMS OVER THE MOON by Eugenie Teychenne.
07/Mar/2022
Everything you need for a fun first year with your school's BEGINNER STRING PROGRAM. Interactive videos, original pieces, lesson plans, tools & resources presented clearly and accessed easily. Preview the site at demo.possumsoverthemoon.com <http://demo.possumsoverthemoon.com/> And boldly go…
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› Latrobe Valley Community Choir welcomes new Music Director
07/Mar/2022
Play It Forward is thrilled and honoured to announce the appointment of Dr Kevin Cameron as Latrobe Valley Community Choir’s new Music Director. Dr Cameron, an award winning conductor and the Director of Performing Arts at Gippsland Grammar said “I am delighted to be working with the Latrobe Valley Community Choir and as a part of Jonathon…