Community Group Case Studies
August 9th, 2010
Music For Everyone is dedicated to helping all people participate in music-making, regardless of background, age or ability. What began in 1983 as an informal collective of families interested in creative music activities that children, teens and adults could participate in together has grown to become the largest hands-on music-making organisation in the ACT region. Members travel from as far afield as Cooma and the South Coast to engage with professional tutors and experienced artists.
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Posted in 2009 Case Studies, ACT, Accessible, Awards, Communuity Group Case Studies |
December 1st, 2008
Originally from Brisbane, Margaret Harrison has lived in Mungindi for 25 years. Having learned piano as a child, she was the natural – and only – choice to be the teacher/conductor for Mungindi’s inaugural Music Festival. She started to teach herself clarinet and saxophone after the first Festival and now teaches those instruments voluntarily one day a week to adults and children. She brushes up on her own skills through workshops run in Mungindi, by taking part in other workshops run in other regions, and through personal music lessons via Skype, which she says are a “brilliant” way of learning. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: best practice, Department of State and Regional Development, Festivals Australia, funding, Mungindi Music Festival, Music Technology, participation, Rural Communities, Skype, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, volunteers
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, Bands, Brass, Choir, Communuity Group Case Studies, Concert, Festivals, Groups To Play With, Instrumental Music, NSW, Organisations, Popular Siniging, Vocal Music |
December 1st, 2008
Brian Procopis is a community development worker with Lifeline with an academic background in sociology and psychology. He is also a community musician. He was on the Management Committee of the then-named Asylum Seekers Centre in Brisbane, and working in the Centre, when he and his colleagues heard music playing at the far end of the corridor. The scene that awaited them of Chileans, Eritreans and Sri Lankans spontaneously playing music and singing together made them realise that their advocacy efforts to the Department of Immigration on behalf of asylum seekers were of limited value. They embarked upon the Scattered People project to create opportunities for these marginalised people to speak for themselves through music. After the success of that project, and many others after that, Sweet Freedom was incorporated in 2005 and continues to work with a variety of disadvantaged communities, helping them find their voice through creative expression. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Advocacy, asylum seekers, best practice, Brian Procopis, funding, Lifeline, participation, Scattered People, Social inclusion, Social Justice, Sweet Freedom
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, Communuity Group Case Studies, Online Community, QLD, Vocal Music |
December 1st, 2008
Michelle Leonard grew up in Coonamble, received her musical training at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and has had the opportunity to work with many outstanding conductors and musicians in her career. She started the Leichardt Espresso Chorus (LEC) after being approached by some parents of the students in the choir she managed at Newtown Performing Arts School. Ten years on, the choir has nearly 100 people on its books including its waiting list, and is mentoring relationships with a number of regional choirs – both adult and children. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: best practice, Children's Choirs, governance structure, Leichardt Espresso Chorus, Local Councils, Michelle Leonard, Newtown Performing Arts School, participation, Partnerships, Radio 2UE, sustainability, Tim Webster
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, Choir, Communuity Group Case Studies, Groups To Play With, NSW, Organisations |
December 1st, 2008
DRMC founder, Bev McAlister, created the Council on returning to Australia after living with her family in Montana in the US. She had been impressed with the vibrancy and depth of community life there, in which active music making was the heart, and was surprised to find that this wasn’t the case in the Dandenong Ranges. She has now changed that, supported over the years by committed volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ABC local radio, best practice, Bev McAlister, Children's Choirs, Dandenong Ranges Music Council, Early Childhood Music, Fiddle, Flute, Guitar, participation, Partnerships, Piano, Suzuki, training, volunteers, Yarra Ranges
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, Bands, Choir, Communuity Group Case Studies, Groups To Play With, Instrumental Music, Organisations, VIC |
December 1st, 2008
Dr Susan West manages the Hand- in-Hand Program, the community outreach program of the Music Education Program of the Australian National University (ANU). Susan has over twenty-five years experience as a performer, teacher, composer and arranger and music education academic, with qualifications from universities in Victoria, Hungary, New South Wales, the ACT and New York. Her work in developing pre-tertiary music programs and post-graduate teacher training is at the cutting edge of music education. Her philosophy centres on the idea that music-making is our birthright and that the role of music education is simply to support the natural wish for musical involvement – a philosophy that led her to establish the Hand-in-Hand program at the ANU in 1998. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Australian National University, best practice, funding, Hand-in-Hand, Jervis Bay School, Partnerships, Primary School Music, Secondary School Music, Susan West, teacher training, Theatre Outreach
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, ACT, Communuity Group Case Studies, NSW, Organisations, VIC |
December 1st, 2008
Teacher, playwright, composer and social entrepreneur Pat Rix began Tutti in 1997. She is widely respected as a national leader in social inclusion and internationally recognised for bringing community and professional artists with and without a disability together for high quality performance. In 2007 she received the Australian of the Year – South Australian Local Hero Award and a High Commendation from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for her work in challenging stereotypes and public perceptions about disability. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ability-inclusive, best practice, Children's Choirs, funding, intellectual disability, Music Resources, participation, Pat Rix, sustainability, Tutti Ensemble, volunteers
Posted in 2008 Case Studies, Accessible, Choir, Communuity Group Case Studies, Groups To Play With, Organisations, SA |
