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› How Playing an instrument benefits your brain - TED Ed
26/Feb/2019
This TED Ed video is as engaging and share-worthy today as it was when it was very first published. It's a great incentive for anyone wondering whether to dust off an old instrument or pick up a new one for the first time. It's also the perfect incentive to practise! If you're looking for new music-making opportunities yourself, try the group search section of the CMVic website and get a party going in your own brain. See more
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› Community Music: Finding your place; finding your voice
25/Feb/2019
It started with a milestone birthday and an unexpected, life-changing gift: a three-day singing workshop at the Body Voice Centre in Footscray.
This was not something I had ever asked for. Frankly, it was terrifying. Not only singing, but also improvisation and “exploring extended voice.” All that… in front of people… without the comfort of a loud, late-night karaoke backing track, or friends who had checked their dignity at the bar earlier in the evening. Read more...
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› Want to place your group or event in our e-newsletter?
01/Mar/2019
Send us an email request!
We can list your group and event on our website. We receive a lot of requests, so if you want to improve your chances of getting into our next edition of shout, email your details to communications@cmvic.org.au or contact us, with the following details (in text not PDF or JPEG formats).
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Contact: Name, Phone, Web (if available)
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Closing date: (for auditions, employee opportunities, competitions, awards).
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› Join the CMVic Monthly Giving Circle
01/Mar/2019
Join CMVic's Monthly Giving Circle! Community Music Victoria is in an exciting phase and we are busy doing what we do best: developing, implementing and delivering a rich program of music making opportunities and projects to deliver across Victoria which are open to everyone. As an independent, not-for-profit, membership based organisation Community Music Victoria relies on a mix of Government funding, membership fees, sponsorship and your donation to exist. Your support is fundamental to the future of CMVic and to our broadening the take up of community music making in Victoria. Through your efforts, over the last couple of years we’ve been able to: Create hundreds of new songs and tunes to share with our communities at over a dozen major festivals and events Provide mentoring support all over Victoria to over 30 new singing…
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› CMVic Spruiks for Singers on Flinders Lane
28/Feb/2019
For the past two Thursdays, members of the CMVic office team have foregone their sarnies and headed out to Flinders Lane for a lunchtime sing! Spruiking has started for the new Flinders Lane Community Choir with posters popping up around the place too. Keep an eye open for publicity if you're walking through this part of town and spread the word with anyone you know who lives, works or plays around Flinders Lane. EVERYONE IS WELCOME to this new, inclusive and local choir. CMVic is holding two Taster Sessions for the choir starting next week, between 1:15-2:15pm on Thursday 7 and Tuesday 12 March. For more information, click here. If you can't spare a whole hour at lunchtime, drop in for as long as you can. A short…
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› The CMVic Shop never shuts! Great new resources now available
28/Nov/2018
The CMVic online store has four wonderful new additions to its virtual shelves, 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…
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› Organise your own Song Swap
20/Nov/2018
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…