by Ajay Heble
Type of Project: Program
Ajay Heble: What is Music and Health? My name is Ajay Heble. I’m the director of The International Institute for Critical Studies and Improvisation, and I was the founding artistic director of…
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Type of Project: Program
Gilles Comeau: What is music and health? I am Gilles Comeau, I am a professor at the School of Music at the University of Ottawa. I am the founding director of the…
by Shumaila Hemani
Type of Project: Activity
Art causes people to question or consider their own beliefs, assumptions, or values. It can offer new possibilities, solutions, and alternatives to current conditions. Sound Arts enhance our capacity to notice the world…
by Shumaila Hemani
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 90 minute workshop
Art can become a means to integrate marginalized voices into the conversation. It can voice aspects of the issue not otherwise expressed in public documents or policy statements. Art helps us to listen better.…
by Shumaila Hemani
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 90 minutes
The Energy Matters workshop series was located at the intersections of interdisciplinary and participatory sound art for climate action and justice, involving stories, sounds, word bubbles, gestures, and movement. In these workshops,…
by Shumaila Hemani, Ph.D.
Type of Project: Activity
The soundscape composer, Hildegaard Westerkamp writes, “True receptive listening comes from an inner place of non-threat, support and safety. Paradoxically, while a grounded and calm state of mind, a sense of safety,…
by Jennifer Lang
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: Each Friday for one hour from September until June
The Newcomer Youth Engagement project connects music and literacy while also connecting our university and a community organization that supports educational initiatives for newcomers to Canada. Who we are: Our music team…
by Frédérique Drolet
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 60 — 90 minutes workshop
Birdsong course Designed and implemented in Plaisance by Frédérique Drolet and Mariane Lacroix (2022) 1. Context The birdsong course was designed by Frédérique Drolet (soprano) and Mariane Lacroix (naturalist from Parc national…
by Lauren Best
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: weekly 50 minute groups, 32 sessions across 10 months
This framework for online group music lessons provides a collaborative experience of developing musicality through creativity, while still encouraging each student to work independently towards their own personal music goals. The Framework…
by jashen edwards and Patrick Murray
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 2–3 workshops/group presentations over 3 months
Singers in this collaborative choral music creation project explored how sounds gathered from their everyday lives could speak to aspects of place, identity, and community in new vocal soundscape compositions they created,…
by Samantha Tai
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 6 1‑hour sessions
Sounds of Home is a collaborative songwriting initiative for refugee and newcomer youth. Over the course of 6 weeks, participants explore the theme of “home” through group music making and songwriting. The…
by Doug Friesen
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 30 minutes
As part of the Education Sector Focus, public school music teacher Doug Friesen shares a few improvisation games his students love to play. GAME 1: Four!! After a cue, each participant tries to…
by Keshini Senanayake
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: From one class to an entire school year
This project explores creative music making in a secondary wind band program Nelson Mandela High School, one of Alberta’s designated High School Redesign Schools. In a redesign school, tasks are designed not…
by Louise Campbell
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: One one-hour workshop or one month residency
Whether your school or community organization is in an urban, rural or remote area, the natural environment is full of inspiration for creativity and learning. Louise Campbell leads participants in exploring and…
by Keitha Clark
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1.5 hours of class time ( 2 sessions) // 2–6 hours of individual creation time
This collaborative project took place in the spring of 2022 with Dennis Shorty and members of the Fiddleheads, a youth fiddle ensemble in Whitehorse. The project focused on finding ways to integrate…
by Edmee Nataprawira
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: One rehearsal to a full school year
In this project, music educator Edmee Nataprawira and her students in the Prep Choir of VIVA Singers Toronto build community virtually through creative singing and music making: Hi, my name is Edmee…
by Katherine Fraser
Type of Project: Activity
Elementary Music School Teacher Katherine Fraser and her students listen, improvise, compose, and reflect on these creative school music experiences: “Hi, my name is Katherine Fraser. I live and teach in Toronto,…
by Julia Weder, Jiixa (Gladys Vandal)
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: Varies — generally 30 hours over a 1–2 month period.
A music video project by the duo Siijuu Jaadas Cool Ladies, consisting of Haida Elder, weaver, and language teacher Jiixa (age 84), along with settler Julia (age 25). Julia makes the music…
by Nathan Gage
Type of Project: Program
Duration: One year to multi-year
Nathan Gage and his students describe and reflect on their creative work as musicians, bands and producers in their classroom recording spaces. Here is a description of a secondary music program that…
by Ira Lee (Iraleesiwack)
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1 hour workshop
Through an inclusive and experiential lens, this project introduces Freestyle rap, participatory music, and improvised musicking through group skill building activities for digital artists, creatives, and the curious. Our participatory project brings…
by Geremia Lorenzo Lodi
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour workshop, which can be further developed through multiple sessions
This activity introduces participants to creating music by paying close attention to the quality of another person’s movement. The activity develops the ability to listen and notice one’s responses to the surrounding…
by Naila Kuhlmann, Lili Saint Laurent, Caroline Barbier de Reulle
Organization: Piece of Mind Collective
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: This can vary, but would work best over a series of 1–2 hour sessions (over weeks or months).
Introduction Within the context of the Piece of Mind project (details at the bottom of the page), we describe a collaborative activity in which we translated a poem about the lived experience…
by Leah Abramson
Organization: Arts & Health: Healthy Aging through the Arts & Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Type of Project: Program
Duration: 10–12 2hr sessions
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sound & Song program participants have developed an online collaborative songwriting practice grounded in individual soundwalks. Participants use soundwalking to gather lyrical material for an…
by Carmen Braden, composer
Organization: Prairie Debut — NACC — Black Ice Sound
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 3 45-minute sessions
SUMMARY: A three-session workshop series (45 mins each session) introducing young people to compositional ideas. Students ideally have one year of some musical experience. Reading music is not necessary. Materials: coloured pens, pencils,…
by Louise Campbell
Organization: C.A.R.E. Centre
Type of Project: Program
Duration: 3 month residency
The C.A.R.E. Centre, a recreational organization for adults living with severe physical disabilities, recognises the importance of art and expression for their clients, particularly for those clients who are non-verbal. In addition…
by Deirdre Potash
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1 hour visual art workshop
GOAL: to develop a deeper appreciation of music and the visual arts and how they compliment each other. In this particular workshop, participants were inspired by the music of Jabbour, using the…
by Dina Cindric
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 2–20+ minutes, depending on warmup
These Presence Warmups prepare the body, breath and mind for expressive and creative music-making. They are most effective when used at the start of a rehearsal and can easily be incorporated into…
by Guillaume Jabbour
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 2 hour workshop (can be split into 2 sessions), add 60–90 min for extension activities
Short Description: This Audio Scavenger Hunt involves finding sounds from a list, reporting on them, and discussing what the sounds mean to you. Sounds are searched out and checked off a list.…
by Anna Höstman and Aline Homzy
Organization: Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP) & Canadian Music Centre (CMC)
Type of Project: Program
ACTIVATE: Young Composer Program is an adjudicated composition program presented by The Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP) and Canadian Music Centre (CMC). ACTIVATE is an early entry point for young…
by Geremia Lorenzo Lodi
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: One/two hour(s) workshop
Words and Rhythm have a really close relationship since ancient times when poets sang the epic tales in iambic pentameters, both to better remember and more easily sing them. Words contain rhythm.…
by Naila Kuhlmann, Rebecca Barnstaple, Louise Campbell
Organization: Piece of Mind Collective
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: Main activity : 30 min — 1 hour
Piece of Mind uses the performing arts to synthesize and translate knowledge about Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia. Our participatory research-creation project brings together artists (circus performers, dancers, musicians, visual artists), researchers,…
by Contemporary Showcase Edmonton Society
Organization: Contemporary Showcase Edmonton Society
Type of Project: Program
Duration: A series of workshops over the course of 6 — 8 weeks.
Young Composer Program – Contemporary Showcase Edmonton The Young Composer Program organized by the Contemporary Showcase Edmonton Society introduces students ages 12 and up to composition and assists students to develop their…
by The Paramorph Collective / Le collectif Paramorph
Organization: Paramorph Collective
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: A series of 5 sessions, adaptable and scalable to your needs
Have you ever wanted to create your own music/multimedia artwork, but couldn’t figure out where to begin? While creation can seem intimidating, it can actually be surprisingly accessible, and more importantly, FUN!…
by Moe Clark
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: A single 2 hour workshop session or series of multiple 2h drop-in sessions.
Sound Stories from the Land okâwîmâw askiy is Mother Earth (nêhiyawêwin/Plains Cree language), always providing for us in ways beyond our wildest imaginations. This workshop provides an opening for us to strengthen…
by Jodi Proznick
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: This could be a one hour workshop or multiple sessions over an extended period of time.
What does it mean to “Know Music”? The important thing, as one cannot repeat too often, if that the child should learn to feel music, to absorb it, to give his whole…
by Louise Campbell
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1 atelier d’une heure
Listening Games for Reducing Noise Levels in a School Cafeteria Picture a large room: concrete floor, low tile ceiling, bare plaster walls, tables lined with stools, a wall of industrial fridges and…
by Jeff Morton
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 2 one-hour sessions
Finding Folk for Music is a way to share concepts and strategies for a kind of experimental folk music. The series engages people in hands-on creation regardless of anyone’s level of previous…
by Kathryn Patricia
Type of Project: Activity
Catalyst is an online, music improvisation learning experience. Along with three instructional videos, this guide will outline some of the key components of musical improvisation. This video series draws from the Creative…
by Meredith Bates
Type of Project: Activity
From finding objects around the house (the recycling and ‘junk drawer’ are treasure troves!) to turning them into musical instruments and decorating them, to composing a symphony, to conducting the final performance!…
by Nikola Tosic
Type of Project: Activity
Here is an approach to collaborative music making based on using existing repertoire, where a group samples and repurposes material and ideas for use as a Starting Point. A. PREPARATION – Choose…
by Guillaume Jabbour
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 3–4 hours
Picture a muted video of a person walking inside a house. Imagine what the footsteps might sound like going up creaky steps or slightly dragging on the floor. Turn up the sound…
by Dr. Daniel Oore, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation & Memorial University
Type of Project: Activity
Listening, touching, feeling and sounding activities using your voice, hands, whole body, instruments, or speakers (e.g. on phone, computer, earphones). These sound activities are for people of all —including hearing and non-hearing—…
by Germaine Liu
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1 hour
Hello! My name is Germaine. I have prepared for you some task-based games you can share and play with your friends. I love task-based games because I feel like I am living…
by Germaine Liu
Type of Project: Activity
Hello! My name is Germaine. I have prepared for you some task-based games you can share and play with your friends. I love task-based games because I feel like I am living…
by Germaine Liu
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 10–60 minutes
Hello! My name is Germaine. I have prepared for you some task-based games you can share and play with your friends. I love task-based games because I feel like I am living…
by Germaine Liu
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 10–60 minutes
Hello! My name is Germaine. I have prepared for you some task-based games you can share and play with your friends. I love task-based games because I feel like I am living…
by Germaine Liu
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 1 hour
Hello! My name is Germaine. I have prepared for you some task-based games you can share and play with your friends. I love task-based games because I feel like I am living…
by MariEve Lauzon & Michel Frigon
Type of Project: Activity
Duration: 2 classes d’une heure
Matter at Your Fingertips Using playdough, ‘Matter at Your Fingertips’ is a playful initiation to sound creation. Objective: to make a collective composition featuring a score made out of play dough. By…
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