BC Association of Community Music Schools
A coalition of non-profit groups is calling on Vancouver city council to delay approval of a downtown casino complex until the province agrees to steer more gambling revenue to charities Continue Reading →
We asked several leading figures in the country’s arts scene what was the one thing they would change about Canada’s cultural policies. Their responses: Hubert Lacroix, President and CEO of Continue Reading →
Many young teenagers set their sights on university or college earlier than once believed – before they arrive in Grade 9 – raising questions about whether governments and educators are Continue Reading →
Lindsay Brown is the founder of Stop BC Arts Cuts Q. The Chair of the BC Arts Council recently resigned. What was your reaction? Jane Danzo’s resignation broke the logjam Continue Reading →
For a study published last year, British researchers asked 12 healthy male college students to ride stationary bicycles while listening to music that, as the researchers primly wrote, “reflected current Continue Reading →
Four reasons executive directors should be on Twitter Executives can understand the community better through unfiltered direct access. They can create greater trust within that community by demonstrating the organization’s Continue Reading →
Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains Continue Reading →
Please watch, and circulate, this video documentation of Ziyian Kwan’s ‘what i am dancing sundays’, created by Filmmaker Peg Campbell. Peg captures the performance advocacy of her colleagues in music Continue Reading →
At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. But amid the familiar strings and brass have sprouted some odd Continue Reading →
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.