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Free Creative Youth Development Workshops

04-03-2024

The Lewis Prize for Music’s Creating Abundance Collaborative is hosting two virtual workshops to level up the field of creative youth development, with a focus on career-readiness and wellbeing.

Apply for the Music Cities Awards

04-03-2024

The Music Cities Awards recognize the impact that music initiatives have on cities’ economic, environmental, and cultural development, inviting nominations from individuals and organizations creating social change through music for their 2024 global competition.

Sistema New Brunswick Announces Wild Symphony Curriculum

04-03-2024

A new music curriculum resource will soon be on its way to orchestral programs across North America.

Afghan Youth Orchestra Makes First Appearance in U.K.

04-03-2024

The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music are no strangers to adversity.

Action Research in the Western Balkans: Music and Social Reconciliation

Ismar Porić, Founder/Director, House of Good Tones

04-03-2024

Can bringing young people from different cultures together, through arts-related experiences, help to promote understanding, communication, and peace building?

This is a question on the minds of many people working in the global field of arts for social change. Over the past few years, my program, The House of Good Tones in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has partnered with two other Balkan programs (SO-DO, in Zagreb, Croatia, and the Music Art Project, in Belgrade, Serbia) on a research project designed to explore this question—a particularly important question in our part of the world.

(Re)Understanding Creativity

Betsaleel “Bets” Charmelus, CEO, ArtistYear

04-03-2024

It’s easy for us, as teaching artists, to believe that all humans can access creativity. As the leader of ArtistYear and a practicing teaching artist myself, I understand the inclination. Any notion suggesting otherwise seems to challenge fundamental beliefs about our purpose—if there are people who can’t access creativity, then a place exists where teaching artistry is rendered ineffective. With this line of thinking, however, some nuance in the conversation is lost.

Suggested Viewing: The Last Repair Shop

03-06-2024

Take 40 minutes to watch The Last Repair Shop, an Oscar-nominated documentary short from L.A. Times Short Docs & Searchlight Pictures.

D’Addario Foundation Grants

03-06-2024

Nonprofit music education programs offering free or affordable instrument instruction can apply for funding from the D’Addario Foundation, with grants averaging $2,500.

Call for Faculty: 2024 Haitian Orchestra Program of Excellence

03-06-2024

BLUME Haiti, a nonprofit serving over 60 music schools across Haiti, is seeking orchestral faculty to lead their Haitian Orchestra Program of Excellence (HOPE) from March 26–31 in Cap Haïtian.

Australians Push Back on Proposed Arts-Funding Cuts

03-06-2024

Arts programs are often the first to be affected by government cutbacks, and proposed cuts are putting the future of the Melbourne Youth Orchestras at risk.

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