Newsletters
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September 2011
September 2011
The 2011 MiCN Awards were launched at the MCA National Assembly in Canberra. This year there’s $10,000 on offer to celebrate and reward the the people and organisations who work so hard to make community music happen!
We chose this year’s theme, “Local Links”, to find creative and inspiring connections, partnerships and relationships that music groups have nurtured in and beyond their local community. You can read more about the awards here.
Entries close on Monday 24 October so hurry and download your entry form now.
Other news from MiC this month: <Read on...>
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August 2011
AUGUST 2011
You’ve often thought it, now now you can prove it - you are smarter than most. Research coming out of the University of Kansas has shown musicians are smarter and stay lucid for longer in old age than the rest of the population. Another interesting finding is that the earlier you started your musical training, the greater the effects - the smarter you are!You can now use this research to win every argument you start with a non-musician. Just say “I’m right ‘cause I’m smarter than you and here’s the proof”.
Let me know how that turns out for you.
Meanwhile News from MiCN this month: <Read on...>
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July 2011
July 2011
The Therapeutic Power of Music
Gabrielle Giffords, the US congresswoman who suffered serious head injury in an assassination attempt, has effected a remarkable recovery in no small part to music therapy – a discipline which is moving mainstream as scientists discover more about how our mind works and how music helps develop brain power. Music can have a role in helping us recover from stroke or other brain injury and it can help patients with dementia.
Many community musicians understand their role as agents of individual and social change and are strong advocates for the power of music to effect that change. In this newsletter you’ll read about music therapists, Carolyn Hart and Jeanette Milford we invited to our conference in McLaren Vale to help us understand what we’re doing and why it works. But first…<read on...>
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May 2011
MAY 2011
Wednesday, May the 25th, will be a very special Towel Day.
The first Towel Day occurred on 25 May 2001, two weeks after the death of well-loved English author Douglas Adams, famed for his inaccurately named trilogy of five ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ books. Loyal fans took to the streets with their towels to commemorate his life and passing. Why towels, you ask. Read the books, I say. <read on...>.
