This is a collection of videos profiling what creating music looks like in five different music programs across Canada. The teachers and students reflect on what role these creative practices might have in disrupting the colonial patterns still often central to institutional music education. Videos capture how they create with improv and warm-up exercises, creative notations and remaking repertoire. Examples include a unit for learning from an elder musician in the community and a new model for secondary education through popular music and sound production are offered.
This resource was co-directed by music educator Doug Friesen and Teaching Artist Louise Campbell with music teachers Katherine Fraser, Keshini Senanayake and Nathan Gage, early childhood music educator and choral conductor Edmee Nataprawira and private fiddle instructor Keitha Clark.
We hope you find something you could try with your students and/or inspiration to dream up other possibilities!
This resource was co-directed by music educator Doug Friesen and Teaching Artist Louise Campbell with music teachers Katherine Fraser, Keshini Senanayake and Nathan Gage, early childhood music educator and choral conductor Edmee Nataprawira and private fiddle instructor Keitha Clark.
We hope you find something you could try with your students and/or inspiration to dream up other possibilities!