Support Letter

Getting to Vancouver

Vis­it­ing beau­ti­ful British Colum­bia late Jan­u­ary, at a time when it’s usu­al­ly blis­tery cold in the oth­er parts of Cana­da — now that’s a great idea!

But trav­el is more of an issue for Forum 2012 because it’s a much big­ger trip for peo­ple from Atlantic Cana­da, Que­bec and Ontario… where most Cana­di­ans live. We hope this fact doesn’t dis­cour­age people.

Our past 4 nation­al Forums were very excit­ing and suc­cess­ful, and the project has proven to be a great way to strength­en ties with peo­ple in the new music field from coast to coast, to make con­nec­tions, to hear new ideas and to get new projects off the ground.

Here are a few hints and tips so you don’t break the pig­gy bank:

  1. There are good air­fare rates for the end of Jan­u­ary. You’d be sur­prised what is out there! Get them before they go up in price.
  2. Make use of our new Habi­ta­tion 2012 bil­let­ing project to help save accom­mo­da­tion costs as well as bump up your net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. Con­tact Stacey Brown: CNMN-RCMN_habitation@staceybrown.ca
  3. For those who have resources to apply to their orga­ni­za­tion, insti­tu­tion or uni­ver­si­ty for trav­el or pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment sup­port, we hope you choose Forum 2012 for one of these applications.
  4. You may be eli­gi­ble for trav­el fund­ing from your region­al or provin­cial arts coun­cil. Don’t be afraid to call them up and ask! Act quick­ly to be sure you will meet deadlines.
  5. You may be eli­gi­ble for a trav­el grant from the Equi­ty Office at the Cana­da Coun­cil. It is for Cana­di­an pro­fes­sion­al artists or arts pro­fes­sion­als with dis­abil ities or who are from cul­tur­al­ly diverse groups (African, Asian, Lati­nAmer­i­can, Mid­dle East­ern or mixed racial descent). More in for­ma­tion: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/equity/

Support Letter

We would like as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble attend­ing Forum 2012.

We are ask­ing as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble, from all areas of music: musi­col­o­gy, per­for­mance, music edu­ca­tion, music the­o­ry, com­po­si­tion, music tech­nol­o­gy, media arts, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary arts, etc.

We can pro­vide the nec­es­sary let­ter of sup­port for your application.

Our Admin­is­tra­tive Direc­tor, Emi­ly Hall, has a let­ter pre­pared. Con­tact her at any time if you need this let­ter, per­son­al­ized with your details — admin@newmusicnetwork.ca

We also warm­ly wel­come your fel­low col­leagues — feel free to speak with them or for­ward this infor­ma­tion. If they are new to CNMN, they can get ori­ent­ed with our bilin­gual PDF brochure for gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about CNMN.

Thanks for your time and con­sid­er­a­tion. I look for­ward to see­ing you in Van­cou­ver this com­ing January.

Yours tru­ly,

Tim Brady
Pres­i­dent — CNMN / RCMN