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Music From Hope: Empowering Refugee Youth through Creative Music-Making

by Tarek Ghriri and Nour Kadan

Dura­tion: week­ly work­shops for up to 4 weeks

Explore the project Music From Hope, in which Nour Kaadan and Tarek Ghriri lead cre­ative music work­shops for refugee youth ages 5 – 25 who have recent­ly arrived in Cana­da and are…

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Allison Girvan: Music is the Vehicle for Community Building

by Alli­son Girvan

Dura­tion: Lalin meets Sep­tem­ber- June; Fire­works Choir is one rehearsal and one per­for­mance in a day

Explore choirs as a vehi­cle for com­mu­ni­ty build­ing with Alli­son Gir­van, a con­duc­tor who uses glob­al song to cre­ate con­nec­tions and build rela­tion­ships across cul­tur­al dif­fer­ences. Alli­son is a choral con­duc­tor and…

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Rebecca Barnstaple

by Rebec­ca Barnstaple

Pre­sen­ta­tion of Music and Health Resource Hi. I’m Rebec­ca Barn­sta­ple. I am the man­ag­er of Com­mu­ni­ty Ini­tia­tives Research and Inno­va­tion here at Chigamik Com­mu­ni­ty Health Cen­ter. I’m also a post-doc­tor­al research fellow…

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Rob Lutes

by Rob Lutes

Type of Project: Program

On music and men­tal health My name is Rob Lutes. I’m a singer-song­writer, musi­cian, and music edu­ca­tor who lives in Pointe-Clair, Que­bec. Music and men­tal health, it’s an enor­mous ques­tion and the answer…

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Ajay Heble

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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Arla Good

by Arla Good

Type of Project: Program

Arla Good: On what music and health means to her My name is Arla Good. I am the co-direc­tor and chief researcher of SingWell Project. The SingWell Project is a net­work of…

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Geremia Lodi — On Making Music With Former Inmates

by Geremia Lodi

Type of Project: Program

As part of the Music in Incar­cer­a­tion & Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Resource, Geremia Lodi describes his expe­ri­ence work­ing with for­mer inmates in a tran­si­tion com­mu­ni­ty pro­gram, the pos­si­ble ben­e­fits of imple­ment­ing music pro­grams in…

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Sound Waves: An Approach to Layered Soundscape-Making

by Shifra Cooper

Type of Project: Program

Dura­tion: A flex­i­ble process that can take one work­shop, or many.

Sound Waves shares an approach to lay­ered sound­scape-mak­ing that responds to research themes through mul­ti­ple art forms, in order to cre­ate inclu­sive and acces­si­ble sound­scapes, for groups of inter­gen­er­a­tional mixed-abil­i­ty singers, that…

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Energy Matters Workshop (Part A): Embodied Listening to Energy Crisis

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…

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Energy Matters Workshop (Part B): An Auditory Approach to Energy Accessibility

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.…

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Energy Matters Workshops (PART C): Deep Listening to Energy Accessibility with Sound Recording Activities

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,…

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Energy Matters Workshops (PART D): Deep Listening to Energy Accessibility with Dialogues on Energy Accessibility

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,…

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sonic cellphone meditation

by Kathy Kennedy

Type of Project: Activity

Dura­tion: 20 min­utes minimum

This son­ic med­i­ta­tion allows par­tic­i­pants to impro­vise vocal­ly while explor­ing an out­door space with oth­ers. It is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to walk while singing, observ­ing the con­stant­ly chang­ing sounds of oth­er singers and…

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Birdsong Course

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…

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Exploring Sonic Lifeworlds: Collaborative Composition in the Large Choral Ensemble

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,…

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Sounds of Home: Collaborative Songwriting with Newcomer Youth

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…

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Taking It Outside: Making Music Inspired By Nature

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…

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VIVA Singers Toronto: A Community Choir Program Connects Virtually

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…

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James Lyng High School: An Education Rooted in Popular 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…

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Music Takes You Higher: Collaborative Song-Writing with People Living with Dementia

by Pia Kon­tos, Sher­ry Dupuis and Chris­tine Jonas-Simpson

Type of Project: Program

Dura­tion: As long as it takes, but nor­mal­ly 6+ months

What does col­lab­o­ra­tive music-mak­ing mean to you? “I quick­ly real­ized that that was the point, in a way it was just to bring peo­ple togeth­er. I would arrive as myself where I…

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Let’s Reimagine: Challenging the Stigma of Dementia Through Collaborative Song-Writing

by Sher­ry Dupuis and Pia Kontos

Orga­ni­za­tion: Reimag­in­ing Demen­tia Coalition

Type of Project: Program

Dura­tion: Writ­ing, record­ing, and pro­duc­ing the song/video took 8‑months.

 “There’s a human con­nec­tion, despite what some peo­ple like to think… Despite age or dis­abil­i­ty, there’s a human­ness amongst all of us if you look for it. And that’s what we’re trying…

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At home with Ira Lee — Freestyle rap, participatory music, and improvised musicking — Skill building for digital artists, creatives, and the curious.

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…

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Silent Rhythms

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…

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Sound & Song: Collaborative Songwriting With Seniors & Elders

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…

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Stories of Care: Making Connections With and Between People with Severe Physical Disabilities

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…

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Passage Through Time — Creating Music-Inspired Visual Art

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…

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Presence Warmups

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…

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Moi_Espace Public

by Thais Montanari

Type of Project: Activity

The project Moi_Espace Pub­lic was born out of a con­vic­tion that artis­tic cre­ation can be a fruit­ful space for exchange on every­day issues, whether emo­tion­al  or social. My desire was to meet…

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Scavenger Hunt for Audiophiles

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.…

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Songs that Connect Us

by RECAA Choir

Orga­ni­za­tion: RECAA: Respect­ing Elders Com­mu­ni­ties Against Abuse

Type of Project: Program

Dura­tion: A series of one-hour workshops

Songs that Con­nect Us is a com­mu­ni­ty-engaged project for col­lab­o­ra­tive and mean­ing­ful group singing using sto­ry­telling and song. It fos­ters open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and a respect for diver­si­ty. The project was ini­ti­at­ed by…

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Words&Rhythm

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.…

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Piece of Mind — “Give us a hand” Participatory Art-Sci Video

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,…

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Piece of Mind — Connecting Scientific Research and Lived Experience through Music

by Naila Kuhlmann, Rebec­ca Barn­sta­ple, Louise Campbell

Orga­ni­za­tion: Piece pf Mind Collective

Type of Project: Activity

Dura­tion: Ongo­ing project ; exam­ple activ­i­ties: 1–2 x 1.5 hour vir­tu­al sessions

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,…

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Choral Improv

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!…

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Across the Lines

by Steve Wright

Type of Project: Activity

Dura­tion: 3–5 2‑hour workshops

A com­mu­ni­ty-based col­lab­o­ra­tion fea­tur­ing orig­i­nal local music paired with the sto­ries and sounds of seniors resid­ing in an assist­ed liv­ing cen­tre Over the course of mul­ti­ple work­shops, get to know par­tic­i­pants so…

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Sound Stories from the Land

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…

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Language of Emotion In Music

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…

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Finding Folk for Music

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…

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Stay at Home Symphony! Found Objects Orchestra & Conduction Activity

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!…

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Prends garde à toi! After Bizet’s opera Carmen

by Opéra de Montréal

Orga­ni­za­tion: Opéra de Mon­tréal, Espace Tran­si­tion (CHU Saint-Jus­tine) & La Gang à Rambrou

Type of Project: Program

A co cre­ation project with adults faced with men­tal defi­cien­cy and autism issues through the rein­ven­tion of Car­men. With work­shops on opera, meet­ing with cre­ators, and train­ers help­ing them pro­duc­ing it as…

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Sound is Touch

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—…

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Task-based Games: Swirl

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…

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Task-based Games: Intro and Keys Chain

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…

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Task-based Games: Take Flight

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…

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Task-based Games: Partner Walk

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…

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Task-based Games: Path

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…

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The Astonishing Jam Sessions with Astonished!

by Chelsea Jones & Helen Pridmore

Orga­ni­za­tion: The Big Sky Cen­tre for Learn­ing & Astonished!

Type of Project: Program

This entry is a co-writ­ten account of “jam sessions”—an impro­vi­sa­tion­al musi­cal prac­tice based in Regi­na, Saskatchewan that embraces and accounts for rad­i­cal forms of access in son­ic expres­sion with dis­abled and Deaf…

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