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Our goals and strategies
We have a plan. It is the way we intend to go about achieving our fundamental aim: to make a significant contribution to the development of a State of singing through building the confidence in everyday people, in all their diversity, to rediscover 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 to achieve useful 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 group music-making so that it becomes a widespread and joyful part of Victorian culture.
Resource Development
- To ensure 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 deliver these arguments.
Infrastructure Development
- To develop an organisational base for the support of group music-making that 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 to pass on their skills to emerging leaders
- Develop the skills of singing leaders and community music facilitators to work with unwilling / reluctant participants in problematic contexts
- Develop the skills of singing leaders and community music facilitators to work with unexpecting / 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 in 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 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 an active community of singing leaders
- Assist the development of an 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 that 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 ongoing development of methodologies, resource materials and advocacy.
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