We Can All Make Music.
Onward
Our goals and strategies
We have
a plan. It’s the way we intend to
go about achieving our fundamental aim: to make a significant contribution to
the development of a state of singing by building the confidence of everyday people,
in all their diversity, thereby enabling them to re-discover their own innate
capacities to enjoy making music together.
We've
established six areas in which development is necessary and possible, and have
devised strategies which will achieve positive results in each area.
Goals
Skill Development
To facilitate the development of useful skills among all those involved in
group music-making.
Practice Development
To extend and develop the concept of group music-making so that it becomes
a widespread and joyful part of Victorian culture.
Resource Development
To provide access to the materials and information necessary to facilitate
universal participation in group music-making.
Network Development
To assist the development of active and independent networks of
individuals, groups, organisations and agencies that are, or have the potential
to become, involved in group music-making.
Advocacy Development
To develop effective arguments for the public support of group music-making
and to effectively express these arguments in advocacy of group music-making.
Infrastructure Development
To develop an organisational base for the support of group music-making which is effective and sustainable.
Strategies
Skill Development
Develop the skills of emerging community activists to establish, lead and
manage singing and instrumental circles, sessions and groups.
Develop the skills of working musicians to lead community-based singing and
instrumental circles, sessions and groups.
Develop the skills of established community singing leaders and community
music facilitators and encourage them to pass on their skills to emerging
leaders.
Develop the skills of singing leaders and community music facilitators to
work with un-willing or reluctant participants in problematic contexts.
Develop the skills of singing leaders and community music facilitators to
work with un-expecting or nervous participants in public gathering contexts.
Develop the skills of singing leaders and community music facilitators to
practically demonstrate the joyful effects of singing together to sceptical
participants.
Practice Development
Extend the art of group
singing through the introduction of different forms (vocal percussion, beatbox,
instrumentally accompanied singing, collective karaoke, singalong, rhythmic and
percussive movement, etc).
Introduce group singing
into new communities, demographics and locales.
Assist community groups to
establish singing circles (particularly within marginalised and isolated
communities).
Facilitate visits to
singing circles and groups by specialist skill developers.
Assist individuals to find
places to sing with others.
Apply the group singing
model to other arts practices (instrumental music, poetry, story-telling, etc).
Resource Development
Distribute new and locally
composed repertoire across the network and beyond.
Develop versions of popular
musics suitable for choral performance.
Document and distribute
effective practices and methodologies.
Develop comprehensive and
distributable data about group music makers (groups and leaders).
Distribute useful
information to those with the potential to take advantage of it.
Network Development
Facilitate the face-to-face
exchange of repertoire, skills and experience.
Nurture and support
emerging leaders as they develop group singing in their communities.
Assist singing groups to
integrate into their wider communities.
Advise groups on
sustainability and independence strategies.
Assist leaders to understand
and implement community development principles.
Counsel leaders through
difficult situations and times.
Assist the development of
active community of singing leaders.
Assist the development of
active community of singing groups.
Welcome isolated singing groups
into the network.
Encourage established
singing leaders to participate in these activities.
Develop partnerships with
agencies which would benefit from group singing activity.
Advocacy Development
Advocate the cultural and
social importance and benefits of singing together.
Promote the activities of
singing groups and leaders.
Expand the awareness of
CMV's services among communities and public agencies.
Infrastructure Development
Develop a competent team of
community music catalysts and facilitators with the capacity to offer skill
development to existing individuals and groups as needed, and to assist
agencies and communities in the establishment of new group singing
opportunities.
Develop the organisation's
responsiveness to those it serves.
Consolidate and develop the
organisational base for the provision of services.
Continue to provide a base
for the on-going development of effective methods, resource materials and
advocacy.
CMV - making a sound world together.
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Victoria Inc.