Top 10 Skills students learn from the arts
You don’t find school reformers talking much about how we need to train more teachers in the arts, given the current obsession with science, math, technology and engineering (STEM), but Continue Reading →
Category: advocacy
Why musical genius comes easier to early starters
Good news for pushy parents. If you want your child to excel musically, you now have better justification for starting their lessons early. New evidence comes from brain scans of 36 Continue Reading →
Arts Activities and Charitable Registration
After more than two years of study and consultation, the Canada Revenue Agency has just released an important paper on “Arts Activities and Charitable Registration Guidance”. While the paper may, Continue Reading →
The New Economic Reality for Classical Musicians
There is much strife these days in the classical orchestral world between professional orchestra management and the musicians, especially in the country of our neighbours to the south, the United States. Continue Reading →
The Role of the Community Music School in audience building
What is the role of the local Community Music School with presenting concerts? Do we do this because we want to educate audiences in our communities about various forms of music? Do we Continue Reading →
BC Culture Days
Culture Days is a collaborative, Canada-wide volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. The first Continue Reading →
Music Monday shares key message
The language that unites every being on the planet is being cut out of many schools in an effort to save cashby Bramwel Tovey Every year, the Coalition for Music Continue Reading →
Making Music Together Increases Kids’ Empathy
Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities inreading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important: The ability to empathize. In Continue Reading →
Can Music Make Your Child Smarter?
Most parents can agree that kids just get music, instinctively and instantly. We recognize it the first moment we successfully calm a hysterical newborn with a ballad or watch a Continue Reading →