We Can All Make Music.
Training
curriculum
The training
we offer community-based singing leaders covers these
areas:
Music
Active
and experiential teaching, aural and visual transmission techniques, song-leading
and basic conducting, harmonising, part and round singing, improvising, rhythm
and movement, vocal and body percussion, creative and engaging warm-up
activities, and body-work for singers.
Repertoire
Arranging, composing and song-making, collecting and swapping songs,
accessing and appreciating unfamiliar genres, teaching songs in languages
unfamiliar to the participants, communicating song background and appropriately
honouring cultural sources, program choice and design.
Group work
Handling and encouraging
diversity of cultures, backgrounds, abilities and ages, handling change and
difficult encounters within groups, preventing burn-out and managing self-doubt
(one's own and that of participants), fostering mutual respect and dealing with
intolerance, developing effective welcome and farewell processes, giving and
receiving constructive criticism (within the group and among peers), methods
for achieving group focus and engagement, facilitating the group's reflective
processes and identity development, and maintaining the group's openness to
newcomers.
Organisation
Teamwork
and cohesive operation, setting up a new group, achieving a sustainable group,
food preparation and handling, promotion, insurance, copyright and venue
preparation (creating the free and fearless space).
Cognition
Systematic
thinking about the place and context of this work, understanding and honouring
the legitimacy of singing circles, how group singing fosters community,
becoming conscious of what culture is and what values
under-pin the work and the function of group leadership.
CMV - making a
sound world together.
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Community Music Victoria Inc.