Deanne Hupfield, Fancy Shawl Dancer. CNAL/RCAA Conference 2015.
The Canadian New Music Network is excited to announce the Participatory Creative Music Hub, an online resource for creative music!
Everyone can make music. How do you make yours!
This is the latest in a series of blogs about Community and Art in these times. As writer, visual artist, musician I find myself applying what I've learned in 20 months of Masters study at Laurier as I work through the final four months of course work and research. My task is to ground academic theory in proactive function: projects and approaches that will benefit as many humans as possible (and therefore the planet) in these challenging times.
Video : Why art is essential?
UNESCO’s International Arts Education Week will take place, this year, from May 25 to 31. We are delighted to share a very helpful pdf document prepared by the World Alliance for Arts Education explaining the background of this celebratory week and suggesting various activities that arts educators may wish to engage in during the week to advocate for arts education. UNESCO Arts Education Week Info Pack
“I just want to know if you’re actually going to TEACH my students something.” This is how my first planning meeting went as a teaching artist rookie. Luckily, I had experience in my pocket as a competitive Hip Hop/Street dancer. Opposition creates opportunity, and in the end, this classroom teacher actually did me a favor. He ignited the fire in me, and I was on a mission to conquer and come out victorious.
Lewis Carroll’s immortal children’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long fascinated not just generations of children and readers, but artists in other disciplines. Its irresistible blend of whimsical, fantastical characters and wildly outrageous narrative along with the slyly knowing, subversive strain in its makeup has always attracted the interest of everyone from filmmakers to philosophers. Choreographers are no exception. And in Christopher Wheeldon, the Carroll classic has undoubtedly found its ideal choreographic interpreter.
A new report, published by Arts for Health (Manchester Metropolitan University) on Thursday 12 February 2015, reveals that engaging with the arts and culture generally has a positive long-term effect on health and wellbeing.
This study draws together different strands of research into the impacts of music making on the development of children and young people. Professor Susan Hallam, explores intellectual, social and personal development and the ways involvement in music making can support and influence growth and development.
Read more here.
Kingston, ON - On September 24th, the Canadian Network for Arts & Learning (CNAL) will welcome members and guests for the launch of its first Networking Hub at Queen’s University in Kingston, with a professional development and networking event hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Arts & Learning.
Join the Forum today! Share resources, research and events, catalyze new discussions and facilitate new creative collaborations.
The Arts & Learning Forum is a vibrant meeting place for artists, arts organizations, educators, schools and academia, policy-makers, funders, researchers and all those who believe that the arts are the gateway to creativity and fundamental to the education of the fully realized individual.