Deanne Hupfield, Fancy Shawl Dancer. CNAL/RCAA Conference 2015.
Calling Artist Educators, Arts Administrators, Arts Funders, and Arts Learners who care about social change across Canada & the US to be part of a powerful initiative to uplift the Community Arts Education Sector.
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning is pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Canada Summer Jobs program to hire four young professionals for the jobs listed below. All positions will be working remotely from home. Applicants must be:
We are delighted to welcome Lynn Medi to The Network as Communications and Research Coordinator. With a degree in Communications, Culture and IT, and a Certificate in Digital Communications, Lynn’s skills will be put to good use through developing The Network’s website, expanding Canada’s Map of Arts & Learning, building our social media platforms and more.
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning is bidding a fond farewell to our Researcher and Database Manager Kaitlyn Bois, who is heading to a new job at Conestoga College in Guelph.
Kaitlyn has been an integral member of The Network’s core team since September 2016. She was responsible for the programming and implementation of Canada’s Map of Arts & Learning, overhauling the website, ensuring that the database was current and functioning well, and a myriad of other tasks big and small.
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning is pleased to announce that we have received the support of the Azrieli Foundation as our Arts Education Professional Development Partner. Through this exciting partnership, The Network will be able to offer more valuable resources to Canada’s arts and learning practitioners through practical webinars, engaging roundtable discussions, a handbook for virtual arts instruction and increased focus on Canada’s Map for Arts & Learning.
Making music with untrained musicians (aka ‘amateurs’) is a long-time passion of mine. It started over twenty years ago when I walked in to a dance studio with a terrible sound system, a piano that was beautifully twangy and out of tune, and twenty hyper 8-year-olds who had just eaten copious amounts of chocolate during their lunch break. Teaching them how to read quarter notes was clearly going to be excruciating, and not my cup of tea at the best of times. Helping them to become a multi-headed monster chatting away in an invented language – now that was fun!
Ahead of World Mental Health Day (10 October), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has released key findings from recent research into music and mental health.
Asking a nationally representative sample of 2,110 adults, the survey found that:
