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Diversifying your Participatory Music Career

Promotional banner for a "Virtual Professional Development Session" with centered red text that reads "Diversifying your Participatory Music Career" and blue text below: "Virtual Professional Development Session." On the left, a colorful artistic illustration of a human head in profile, bursting with musical instruments, notes, butterflies, and ink splatters. Above the head, text reads "PCM Hub" and below "Carrefour CMP." The right side displays two stacked logos: Canadian New Music Network (Réseau canadien pour les musiques nouvelles) on top, and Laurier Centre for Music in the Community below.

On Thurs­day, March 19, from 3:30 to 5pm (EDT), join the Lau­ri­er Cen­tre for Music in the Com­mu­ni­ty and the Cana­di­an New Music Net­work for a vir­tu­al pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment ses­sion for par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music prac­ti­tion­ers, fea­tur­ing musi­cian and sound artist Guil­laume Jab­bour. This hands-on work­shop explores strate­gies in find­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in new sec­tors — such as edu­ca­tion, health and com­mu­ni­ty set­tings — and fos­ter­ing new rela­tion­ships that can lead to cre­ative projects.

Guil­laume will talk about his work in sec­tors, and par­tic­i­pants will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to devel­op strate­gies for their projects. Whether you are an artist in the first years of your career, or are well-estab­lished in cer­tain cir­cles, come with a new idea you are inter­est­ed in propos­ing to devel­op new partners/relationships in a new sector.

Prac­ti­cal Work­shop: Please come with a project in mind, ide­al­ly with exist­ing descrip­tion of the project that we will use to devel­op for dif­fer­ent sectors.

This free talk is part of the Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Series: Grow your career in Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Music. Oth­er top­ics for the year will focus on engag­ing in out­reach, part­ner­ship build­ing, and how to eval­u­ate impact.

Reg­is­tra­tion for the vir­tu­al ses­sion is free. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days in advance.

PCM Hub Open Call 2025–2026

PCM Hub: Open Call / Appel ouvert. Illustration of colorful raised hands with music notes on palms, reaching towards butterflies and music notes. Logos for Canadian New Music Network (top right) and Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (bottom right).

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work is excit­ed to call for Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Projects to be host­ed on the online Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be pro­vid­ed fund­ing for doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing project.

Amount of grant: $600.00

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: Feb­ru­ary 27, 2026

Appli­ca­tion form

Dead­line for sub­mis­sion of doc­u­men­ta­tion of cho­sen projects via online upload form: May 1, 2026.

What is Participatory Creative Music? 


Accord­ing to the Cana­di­an New Music Network’s Pub­lic Engage­ment Com­mit­tee, Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music is a mul­ti­tude of approach­es to cre­at­ing music in which every­one involved, regard­less of their pri­or expe­ri­ence in mak­ing music, has active input in the cre­ative process. Author­ship and deci­sion-mak­ing is shared to greater or less­er degrees, depend­ing on context.

For more infor­ma­tion and clar­i­fi­ca­tion, see Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions.

What is the Participatory Creative Music Hub?


The Hub show­cas­es peo­ple from all walks of life cre­at­ing music togeth­er. What­ev­er you call it – par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music, com­mu­ni­ty music, jam­ming, co-com­po­si­tion, impro­vi­sa­tion, music explo­ration, lis­ten­ing games or hav­ing fun with sound – The Hub cel­e­brates music cre­ativ­i­ty for everyone. 

The main cri­te­ria for projects is that all par­tic­i­pants have active input in the cre­ative process, whether they are 4, 40 or 94 years of age, an expe­ri­enced musi­cian or mak­ing music for the first time.

What is an eligible project?


An eli­gi­ble project is a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music activ­i­ty already occur­ring in the com­mu­ni­ty, whether on-going or com­plet­ed. Projects may take place in the fields of health care, edu­ca­tion, social ser­vices, pris­ons and more. 

While not exclu­sive to this par­tic­i­pant group, we would like to encour­age sub­mis­sions of projects occur­ring with chil­dren and youth in the com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing inter­gen­er­a­tional projects. Projects out­side of for­mal school set­tings are strong­ly encour­aged, includ­ing those projects that serve chil­dren and youth in excep­tion­al cir­cum­stances. Exam­ples of par­tic­i­pants include, but are not restrict­ed to:

  • New­com­er fam­i­lies in com­mu­ni­ty centres,
  • Street-affect­ed youth groups or group homes, 
  • Patients ages 3–5 years of age in chil­dren’s hospitals, 
  • and more!

Eli­gi­ble projects are wide and var­ied. Pri­or­i­ty will be giv­en to facil­i­ta­tors who are sub­mit­ting a project to the Hub for the first time.

See the Project page for exam­ples of Hub projects. 

See Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions for terminology.

Documentation


The pur­pose of this grant is to sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing PCM project to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion and tools for user groups of the Hub to make their own music. It is cru­cial that doc­u­men­ta­tion is instruc­tion­al in nature, rather than pro­mo­tion­al. Links to bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion via a CNMN mem­ber page and exter­nal links are pos­si­ble on the project webpage.

Cultivating a Portfolio Career with Participatory Music

Promotional banner for a "Virtual Professional Development Session" with centered red text that reads "Cultivating a Portfolio Career with Participatory Music" and blue text below: "Virtual Professional Development Session." On the left, a colorful artistic illustration of a human head in profile, bursting with musical instruments, notes, butterflies, and ink splatters. Above the head, text reads "PCM Hub" and below "Carrefour CMP." The right side displays two stacked logos: Canadian New Music Network (Réseau canadien pour les musiques nouvelles) on top, and Laurier Centre for Music in the Community below.

On Thurs­day, Novem­ber 20, from 3:30 to 5pm (EDT), join the Lau­ri­er Cen­tre for Music in the Com­mu­ni­ty and the Cana­di­an New Music Net­work for a sec­ond vir­tu­al pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment ses­sion for par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music prac­ti­tion­ers, fea­tur­ing Cana­di­an musi­cians who have cul­ti­vat­ed par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music projects through­out the course of their mul­ti­fac­eted careers in per­form­ing, com­pos­ing, teach­ing, and facilitating.

This free talk is part of the Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Series: Grow your career in Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Music. Oth­er top­ics for the year will focus on engag­ing in out­reach, part­ner­ship build­ing, and how to eval­u­ate impact.

Reg­is­tra­tion for the vir­tu­al ses­sion is free. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days in advance.

Planting Seeds: How to initiate a Participatory Music Project

Promotional banner for a "Virtual Professional Development Session" with centered red text that reads "Planting Seeds: How to initiate a Participatory Music Project" and blue text below: "Virtual Professional Development Session." On the left, a colorful artistic illustration of a human head in profile, bursting with musical instruments, notes, butterflies, and ink splatters. Above the head, text reads "PCM Hub" and below "Carrefour CMP." The right side displays two stacked logos: Canadian New Music Network (Réseau canadien pour les musiques nouvelles) on top, and Laurier Centre for Music in the Community below.

On Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 25, from 3:30 to 5pm (EDT), join the Lau­ri­er Cen­tre for Music in the Com­mu­ni­ty and the Cana­di­an New Music Net­work for a vir­tu­al pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment ses­sion for par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music prac­ti­tion­ers, fea­tur­ing two Cana­di­an musi­cians who ini­ti­at­ed par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music projects that have thrived over years.

This free talk is part of the Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Series: Grow your career in Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Music. Oth­er top­ics for the year will focus on grow­ing a port­fo­lio career, engag­ing in out­reach, part­ner­ship build­ing, and how to eval­u­ate impact.

Reg­is­tra­tion for the vir­tu­al ses­sion is free. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days in advance.

PCM Hub Open Call 2022–2023

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work is excit­ed to call for Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Projects to be host­ed on the online Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be pro­vid­ed fund­ing for doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing project.

Amount of grant: $800.00

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: Feb­ru­ary 20, 2023

Appli­ca­tion form here.

Dead­line for sub­mis­sion of doc­u­men­ta­tion of cho­sen projects via online upload form: April 17, 2023

What is Participatory Creative Music? 

Accord­ing to the Cana­di­an New Music Network’s Pub­lic Engage­ment Com­mit­tee, Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music is a mul­ti­tude of approach­es to cre­at­ing music in which every­one involved, regard­less of their pri­or expe­ri­ence in mak­ing music, has active input in the cre­ative process. Author­ship and deci­sion-mak­ing is shared to greater or less­er degrees, depend­ing on context.

For more infor­ma­tion and clar­i­fi­ca­tion, see Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions.

What is the Participatory Creative Music Hub?

The Hub show­cas­es peo­ple from all walks of life cre­at­ing music togeth­er. What­ev­er you call it – par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music, com­mu­ni­ty music, jam­ming, co-com­po­si­tion, impro­vi­sa­tion, music explo­ration, lis­ten­ing games or hav­ing fun with sound – The Hub cel­e­brates music cre­ativ­i­ty for everyone. 

The main cri­te­ria for projects is that all par­tic­i­pants have active input in the cre­ative process, whether they are 4, 40 or 94 years of age, an expe­ri­enced musi­cian or mak­ing music for the first time. Projects must take COVID-19 mea­sures into account. 

What is an eligible project?

An eli­gi­ble project is a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music activ­i­ty already occur­ring in the com­mu­ni­ty, whether on-going or com­plet­ed. Projects may take place in the fields of health care, edu­ca­tion, social ser­vices, pris­ons and more. 

While not exclu­sive to this sec­tor, we would like to encour­age sub­mis­sions of projects occur­ring in social ser­vices and com­mu­ni­ty. Pri­or­i­ty will be giv­en to facil­i­ta­tors who are sub­mit­ting a project to the Hub for the first time.

See the Project page for exam­ples of Hub projects. 

See Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions for terminology.

Documentation

The pur­pose of this grant is to sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing PCM project to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion and tools for user groups of the Hub to make their own music. It is cru­cial that doc­u­men­ta­tion is instruc­tion­al in nature, rather than pro­mo­tion­al. Links to bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion via a CNMN mem­ber page and exter­nal links are pos­si­ble on the project webpage.

Open Call for Participatory Creative Music Projects

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work is excit­ed to call for Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Projects to be host­ed on the online Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be pro­vid­ed fund­ing for doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing project.

Amount of grant: $800.00

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: Feb­ru­ary 28, 2023 at midnight

Dead­line for sub­mis­sion of doc­u­men­ta­tion via online upload form for select­ed projects: April 23, 2022

What is Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music? 

At CNMN, Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music is a mul­ti­tude of approach­es to cre­at­ing music in which every­one involved, regard­less of their pri­or expe­ri­ence in mak­ing music, has active input in the cre­ative process. Author­ship and deci­sion-mak­ing is shared to greater or less­er degrees, depend­ing on context.

For more infor­ma­tion and clar­i­fi­ca­tion, see Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions.

What is the Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub?

The Hub show­cas­es peo­ple from all walks of life cre­at­ing music togeth­er. What­ev­er you call it – par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music, com­mu­ni­ty music, jam­ming, co-com­po­si­tion, impro­vi­sa­tion, music explo­ration, lis­ten­ing games or hav­ing fun with sound – The Hub cel­e­brates music cre­ativ­i­ty for everyone. 

The main cri­te­ria for projects is that all par­tic­i­pants have active input in the cre­ative process, whether they are 4, 40 or 94 years of age, an expe­ri­enced musi­cian or mak­ing music for the first time. Projects must take COVID-19 mea­sures into account. Projects in remote and iso­lat­ed areas are very encouraged.

What is an eli­gi­ble project?

An eli­gi­ble project is a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music activ­i­ty already occur­ring in the com­mu­ni­ty, whether on-going or com­plet­ed. Projects may take place in the fields of health care, edu­ca­tion, social ser­vices, pris­ons and more. 

This year’s call will pri­or­i­tize projects relat­ed to health.

See the Project page for exam­ples of Hub projects. 

See Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions for terminology.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion

The pur­pose of this grant is to sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing PCM project to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion and tools for user groups of the Hub to make their own music. It is cru­cial that doc­u­men­ta­tion is instruc­tion­al in nature, rather than pro­mo­tion­al. Links to bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion via a CNMN mem­ber page and exter­nal links are pos­si­ble on the project webpage.

Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music takes place in all kinds of set­tings with all kinds of peo­ple. Doc­u­men­ta­tion can reflect this, and doesn’t have to be of stu­dio-qual­i­ty audio or video where that is not pos­si­ble or appro­pri­ate. Some­times a video cap­ture from your cell phone or screen cap­ture from zoom speaks vol­umes. Doc­u­men­ta­tion should best reflect the nature of the project, com­mu­ni­cate well on an on-line plat­form and assume vary­ing lev­els of music training. 

Pos­si­ble for­mats include: 

  • Text: max 500 words. Excep­tions made when use of par­tic­i­pant images are an issue
  • Scores and rep­re­sen­ta­tions of all kinds are wel­come and encour­aged (text, graph­ic, video, west­ern nota­tion etc.)
  • Images of process (JPG,PNG or GIF. Ide­al size: 1280 pix­els wide)
  • Audio: links to Sound­Cloud are prefer­able. If this is not pos­si­ble, the max­i­mum size for upload­ing audio files is 10MB, or rough­ly 5–10 min­utes of audio. For longer clips, please upload an excerpt.
  • Video: YouTube or Vimeo link 
    • Option­al: sub­mis­sion of video for upload to the CNMN YouTube channel
    • Max 3 min­utes in length. If more time is need­ed, we rec­om­mend mak­ing mul­ti­ple short­er videos rather than one long one

Per­mis­sions

Depend­ing on the nature of the project, par­tic­i­pants may be fea­tured in image, audio and video files. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants are respon­si­ble for procur­ing, respect­ing and doc­u­ment­ing per­mis­sions from par­tic­i­pants for reg­u­lar and dig­i­tal usages of doc­u­men­ta­tion relat­ed to the pilot project. Media release forms to this end will be pro­vid­ed by the CNMN, and are con­sid­ered part of the deliverables.

Appli­ca­tion Form

Please fill in this form to apply!

Write us at assistant.cnmn@gmail.com with any questions.

PCM Hub Open Call results!

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work is thrilled to announce the projects cho­sen for sup­port with­in its Open Call Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Projects to be host­ed on the online Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be pro­vid­ed fund­ing for doc­u­men­ta­tion of the exist­ing project that they proposed.

In the end, CNMN was able to add two prized for a total of 8 sup­port­ed projects by the fol­low­ing creators/facilitators:

Dina Cin­drić
Naila Kuhlmann
Guil­laume Jab­bour
Geremia Loren­zo Lodi

Thais Mon­ta­nari
Paramorph Col­lec­tive
Deirdre Potash
RECAA Choir

CNMN hearti­ly thanks to the artists and arts admin­is­tra­tors our jury: Matthew Fava (CMC), Nick Hyatt, Po Yeh (Prairie Debut and CNMN trea­sur­er) and Leanne Zacharias. We also thank all who sub­mit­ted their projects for review.

Check out the Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub!

Open Call for PCM Hub

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work is excit­ed to call for Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Projects to be host­ed on the online Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be pro­vid­ed fund­ing for doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing project.

Amount of grant: $600.00
Appli­ca­tion dead­line: Jan­u­ary 25, 2021
Dead­line for project sub­mis­sion for suc­cess­ful appli­cants: March 8, 2021

What is the Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry Cre­ative Music Hub?

The Hub show­cas­es peo­ple from all walks of life cre­at­ing music togeth­er. What­ev­er you call it – par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music, com­mu­ni­ty music, jam­ming, co-com­po­si­tion, impro­vi­sa­tion, music explo­ration, lis­ten­ing games or hav­ing fun with sound – The Hub cel­e­brates music cre­ativ­i­ty for every­one. 
The main cri­te­ria for projects is that all par­tic­i­pants have active input in the cre­ative process, whether they are 4, 40 or 94 years of age, an expe­ri­enced musi­cian or mak­ing music for the first time. Projects must take COVID-19 mea­sures into account, and projects in remote and iso­lat­ed areas are very encouraged.

What is an eli­gi­ble project?

An eli­gi­ble project is a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry cre­ative music activ­i­ty already occur­ring in the com­mu­ni­ty, whether on-going or com­plet­ed. Projects may take place in the fields of health care, edu­ca­tion, social ser­vices, cor­rec­tion­al insti­tu­tions and more. 

See the Project page for exam­ples of Hub projects. 

See Key­word Def­i­n­i­tions for terminology.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion

The pur­pose of this grant is to sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion of an exist­ing PCM project to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion and tools for user groups of the Hub to make their own music. It is cru­cial that doc­u­men­ta­tion is instruc­tion­al in nature, rather than pro­mo­tion­al. Links to bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion via a CNMN mem­ber page and exter­nal links are pos­si­ble on the project webpage.

Par­tic­i­pa­to­ry music takes place in all kinds of set­tings with all kinds of peo­ple. Doc­u­men­ta­tion can reflect this, and doesn’t have to be of stu­dio-qual­i­ty audio or video where that is not pos­si­ble or appro­pri­ate. Some­times a video cap­ture from your cell phone or screen cap­ture from zoom speaks vol­umes. Doc­u­men­ta­tion should best reflect the nature of the project, com­mu­ni­cate well on an on-line plat­form and assume vary­ing lev­els of music training. 

Pos­si­ble for­mats include: 

  • Text: max 500 words. Excep­tions made when use of par­tic­i­pant images are an issue
  • Scores and rep­re­sen­ta­tions of all kinds are wel­come and encour­aged (text, graph­ic, video, west­ern nota­tion etc.)
  • Images of process (JPG,PNG or GIF. Ide­al size: 1280 pix­els wide)
  • Audio: links to Sound­Cloud are prefer­able. If this is not pos­si­ble, the max­i­mum size for upload­ing audio files is 10MB, or rough­ly 5–10 min­utes of audio. For longer clips, please upload an excerpt.
  • Video: YouTube or Vimeo link 
    • Option­al: sub­mis­sion of video for upload to the CNMN YouTube channel
    • Max 3 min­utes in length. If more time is need­ed, we rec­om­mend mak­ing mul­ti­ple short­er videos rather than one long one

Per­mis­sions

Depend­ing on the nature of the project, par­tic­i­pants may be fea­tured in image, audio and video files. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants are respon­si­ble for procur­ing, respect­ing and doc­u­ment­ing per­mis­sions from par­tic­i­pants for reg­u­lar and dig­i­tal usages of doc­u­men­ta­tion relat­ed to the pilot project. Media release forms to this end will be pro­vid­ed by the CNMN, and are con­sid­ered part of the deliverables.

APPLY HERE!