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› Singing With Your Baby
31/Jul/2020For parents, rellies and carers of young bubs, this gorgeous video from Family Services at Yarra with Emily Hayes is packed with songs and ideas to help you enjoy the magic of singing and playing with your baby!
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› Turn your online rehearsals, workshops and performances into promotional videos!
30/Jul/2020
By creating a video from these sessions you can: - Showcase your group and the work you've been up to - Apply for future grant funding - Create a sense of community with your members - Create a lasting record of how you dealt with this unique and challenging time…
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› New Book - “Community Music at the Boundaries”
30/Jul/2020
A new book has been published through Wilfird Laurier University Press, edited by Lee Willingham - "Community Music at the Boundaries". Description - Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon and Western European practice .…
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› Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab
29/Jul/2020Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab hoping to declare singing safe. Britain’s 40,000 choirs have all been silenced, brass and woodwind players too. We meet the scientists racing to find out exactly how dangerous blowing instruments and singing can be. Declan Costello, an ear, nose and throat…
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› Birds Are Singing Country - Film and Article
07/Jul/2020
"ONE OF the many things that COVID has revealed to me, is that if you love a place, it will love you back. It’s an extension of Arthur Rubinstein’s idea that "if you love life, life will love you back". This year,…
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› AUSLAN WORKSHOPS FOR BEGINNERS
01/Jul/2020Australian sign language LEARN TO COMMUNICATE IN SOCIETY Suitable for people who are working in the Health, Retail, Education, or Media sector's and for use in the Community These lessons are in person and taught by Community Advocate Phillip Chalker. These lessons start with the alphabet and numbers, then will…
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› How to host a singalong in a COVID world
30/Jun/2020
As with so many community groups and businesses, the singers who come along to Melbourne's Glee Club singalong choirs have been unable to sing together since the pandemic struck. Unlike many other choirs, they didn't go down the path of doing a virtual choir or run zoom sessions. Because…
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› What better use could you make of a football grandstand?
11/Jun/2020*Update: As of July 2020 the second spike in numbers has meant sadly, that all singing with Martie has had to stop again for the time being. Below is an account of the vision she was developing for a return to singing with her group for a couple of happy weeks as lockdown 1:0 was…
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› The future of Australian Choral Singing and COVID-19
21/May/2020
An interesting and important discussion from Gondwana Choirs and UNSW about the future of Australian Choral Singing and COVID-19, featuring Professor Raina MacIntyre and Professor Con Doolan from UNSW, in conversation with Lyn Williams, Carl Crossin and Elizabeth Scott. The research material which appears at 41:45 is shared courtesy of Prateek…
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› The Sound of Silence – Rediscovering the Art of Listening
30/Apr/2020
Chris Rowbury writes for "From the Front of the Choir"... "With far fewer people around at the moment, I am starting to hear things that I don’t normally notice. It made me realise that in our usually busy daily lives, many of us have lost the art of listening.…