ISME Sistema SIG News Update #16

ISME world conference Brazil July 2014

Good news for busy colleagues – in response to requests, the closing
date for submission of posters and presentations has been extended to
20 November 2013 to enable all colleagues who wish to, to submit.
Sistema-related submissions already include 4 symposia, each with 4
papers as well as other posters and presentations. It looks like being
a very good conference. I know of submissions from New Zealand,
Canada, USA, South America, Israel, and Europe. Thank you to all who
have contributed.



North America

Ensemble – November 2013. The latest edition of The Ensemble has just
been published and is on our shared drive.
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9V1AkgQ8qNjai1IVXIyUXFJZVU along
with all back copies. Please contact Etienne if you don't know how to
access our shared docs on Google Drive. etienne.abelin@superar.eu



Japan Tricia Tunstall's blog of the visit to Japan by the Youth
Orchestra of Caracas is well worth a read:
http://www.changingliveselsistema.com/?cat=5



Richard J Hallam MBE
mobile 07850 634 239
phone 01908 690078
www.dickhallam.co.uk

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION IN POLAND

 

Pałac Młodzieży in Bydgoszcz (YOUTH CENTRE) invites to the participation in international festival  - 37^th Bydgoszcz Musical Impressions which be held in July, from 30^th June to 5^th July, 2014 . The festival is organized under auspices of Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Just we hosted the groups from 36 countries.

We offer the participation in the competition and  integrating and recreation program(concerts, national evening, a parade, a  sightseeing in the Bydgoszcz and the region, a gymnic hall and a swimming pool). The participants of the XXXVII Bydgoszcz Musical Impressions can be youth groups:

• choirs
• orchestras
• instrumental groups
• vocal and instrumental groups
• jazz and popular music groups
• folkloristic groups
• old music groups
• other forms (vocal groups, rock bands for example)

Conditions

-          age of participants- no more than 25 years ,  band of folkloristic groups can be older

-           only live music, the playback is forbidden

-          Polish piece in repertoire of competition obligatory

-          accreditation fee- 60 euro or 260 PLN per person

The detailed information (full version of regulations, application and  the gallery) will be available in website www.bim.palac.bydgoszcz.pl (English version)

We invite for the cooperation.

Mrs. Beata Przybojewska, secretary of BIM

impresje@palac.bydgoszcz.pl

 

 

 

MSA Student Prize - Announcement of a 2nd prize for 2013

 

MSA Student Prize 2013

 

We are happy to announce that for the joint MSA/NZMS conference, Brisbane, November 2013, a second prize to the value of $300 will be on offer, in addition to a first prize of $500.

 

This second prize has been kindly funded by the New Zealand Musicological Society, and eligibility for both prizes has been extended to include New Zealand as well as Australian students.

 

Please see the revised notification as follows.

 

MSA/NZMS Prizes for Student Delegates presenting at the National Conference in Brisbane, November 2013

For 2013, two cash prizes of $500 and $300 respectively will recognise excellence in the research endeavours of a student member of the Musicological Society of Australia or the New Zealand Musicological Society presenting a scholarly work at a National Conference. Submissions will be judged on their scholarly content and argument as well as their presentation.

Students are eligible to enter if they are either:

• Studying in an Australian or New Zealand Institution of Higher Education; or
• Australian or New Zealand citizens studying overseas.

Entrants must be financial members of the MSA or the NZMS at the time of the conference.

Entrants should supply, sent in an email:

1. Name and contact details (home address, email, mobile);
2. Institution and course;
3. Contact details of your principal supervisor;
4. Title of your paper as it has been approved by the Program Committee;
5. A copy of the paper in Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF format attached to this email, and supporting material as may be required; Powerpoint presentations need not be submitted;
6. The main file of your paper should include your abstract as approved by the Program Committee and a bibliography/reference list.

Deadline: Midnight EST, Monday, 11 November 2013

Entries should be sent to: John Phillips, MSA Awards Committee Chair, jphil@iprimus.com.au. Immediate confirmation of receipt of your entry will be sent.

The Prize will be announced on the final day of the conference, Thursday, 21 November 2013. Further details will be found in the conference booklet.

For further information please see the MSA Guidelines for this Award, http://www.msa.org.au/about/grants-bursaries-prizes/student-prize/ , noting in addition to this the following: 

1.     1. Re 4.4 of the guidelines: While leeway exists for differing presentation styles, the submitted paper should be largely the same length as the read version. Please do not submit 10,000-word research reports. Powerpoint presentations are not acceptable as submitted papers and need not be submitted in advance; they do, however, count significantly towards the marks allotted for the presentation.

2.     2. Re 4.7: Joint student-supervisor papers will not be accepted for the award. Other forms of joint authorship, such as the involvement of an indigenous presenter or an interviewee, are acceptable.

We warmly welcome student delegates to enter for these prestigious awards.

With best wishes,

John Phillips

Awards Chair

ISME Sistema News Update #15

Dear all,

 

ISME World conference submission deadline extension

In case you missed it, the deadline for submissions for posters and presentations was extended to November 1^st so there is now just two weeks left to submit for the World conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from July 20 to 25^th 2014. We have some excellent submissions relating to Sistema inspired projects but there is always room for more and, of course, we are all interested in other areas or music education related work so do share what you are doing by submitting a poster or a presentation or a workshop www.isme.org

 

Sistema England

Sistema England has secured a grant from Youth Music to spotlight best practice. Building on lessons learned from their visit to Venezuela in January 2013, colleagues from a number of English projects will be evaluating the changes they made to their own programmes after applying some of what they learned from seeing Sistema in action. Over the next year they will be exploring and evaluating further adjustments. The intention is to produce podcasts and share information through social media. Watch this space for further information. www.ihse.org.uk

 

Superar Austria

Superar Austria is coordinating an El Sistema European Development Project (ESEDP) which, together with colleagues from Italy and England will provide support for colleagues throughout Europe, train teachers and provide further networking opportunities. More news to follow in due course. http://superar.eu/

 

We are also looking at calendars for 2014 and planning events so do share anything that you are doing.

 

North America

The attached October issue of The Ensemble focuses on a two day meeting about the U.S. El Sistema-inspired movement that happened recently in Cambridge, Mass. The front page is dedicated to this topic and invites you to read all the notes from the meeting [http://goo.gl/xhkM90] and jump into follow-up conversations about the subjects that were raised. The authors hope you will put your energy into emerging efforts to activate participation in the national movement, and join in nationally-focused projects that raise the level of all our programs. As the article states: "We advance together, or we struggle alone."

 

This reflects the spirit of El Sistema I have experienced throughout the world – what unites colleagues, stemming from the example set by the Venezuelans, is an openness and willingness to share freely, to collaborate with a generosity of spirit for the greater good.

 

 

Richard J Hallam MBE

mobile 07850 634 239

phone 01908 690078

www.dickhallam.co.uk

 

Status of Arts Education within UNESCO's Priorities - Online Petition initiated by Yvette Hardy, South Africa

Ensure Creativity remains a UNESCO priority!
It has been widely recognized that creativity is the vital ingredient that needs to be cultivated if we are all to survive and flourish in this 21st Century.

"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status" says noted educationalist, Ken Robinson. One of the best ways to nurture creativity is through arts education, something which should be available to every child. Creativity is urgently needed to promote economic, social and cultural development and to generate solutions to the numerous challenges facing the world today.

UNESCO has been busy analyzing and ranking the areas of their work by priority, with those areas that receive the lowest ranking being marked for elimination. The Creativity programme, within which arts education falls, was ranked at the very bottom of UNESCO's 48 priority areas and is at risk of elimination. If this happens, UNESCO's invaluable work in this area, including the Road Map for Arts Education, the World Conferences for Arts Education, the International Arts Education week, and all the other projects related to both arts education and creativity in the broadest sense, will be terminated and will no longer receive support. An additional consequence will be to give our governments yet another excuse to de-prioritise Arts Education and to deny both promotion of and access to the arts for children and young people.

However, this situation is not hopeless, if action is taken. When the Member States meet at the November General Conference of UNESCO, they will be the ultimate decision makers. If we can convince our national delegations that creativity should be accorded a higher ranking, we can prevent it from being eliminated.

We urge you to sign this petition requesting, in the strongest terms, that UNESCO keeps Creativity and Arts Education as a fundamental priority within its work. We also ask you to contact the National Commissions of UNESCO within your own countries to express your urgent concern about the future of creativity as a priority within UNESCO programming, to seek their advice and to ask them to co-operate.

A list of National Commissions, including the names and contact information of current Presidents/Chairs and Secretary-Generals can be found at the following site: http://www.unesco.org/nac/index.php?lc=E&module=national_commissions&showall=1

Thank you for being a part of this critical movement
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ensure_Creativity_remains_a_UNESCO_priority/?tTqfFfb

Sent by Avaaz on behalf of Yvette's petition

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Dr. Ernst Wagner

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg

UNESCO-Lehrstuhl Kulturelle Bildung

Koordination der Lehrstuhlaktivitäten

 

Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education

Executive Coordinator

 

Bismarckstr. 1 a, R. 2.024, D-91023 Erlangen

+49 160 845 07 99

ernst.wagner@paed.phil.uni-erlangen.de

 

 

 

The ISME website is now powered by Google Translate!

The ISME website is now powered by Google Translate and speaks many
more languages (besides the language of MUSIC!!!!)

We know that automatic translation can never be perfect, but did you
know that you could help improve it? Google translate is accepting
suggestions (for more information see:
http://translate.google.com/manager/website/suggestions).

Spread the word!!!

[Health and Wellness SIG] News

ISME Musicians' Health and Wellness

Special Interest Group

We want to notify the ISME membership of these upcoming meetings devoted to the topic of musicians' health and wellness taking place around the world.  Add these events to your calendar and if you are available, we hope you will choose to attend.

 

October 26, 2013	11th Symposium Swiss Association for Music Medicine  Zurich, Switzerland www.musik-medizin.ch info@musik-medizin.ch
January 26-February 2, 2014	Havana, Cuba Health and Safety in the Arts Program www.artsmed.org/cubaprogram
February 8-9, 2014	PAMA (Performing Arts Medicine Association) Regional Meeting Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, Canada Music...Movement...Mood www.artsmed.org
March 7-9, 2014	PAMA (Performing Arts Medicine Association) Regional Meeting University of South Florida Tampa, FL   USA FREE to PLAY www.cme.hsc.usf.edu/freetoplay
March 21, 2014	PAMA (Performing Arts Medicine Association) Regional Meeting Chicago Downtown Marriott Hotel Chicago, IL USA www.artsmed.org
March 22, 2014	MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) and PAMA  Pedagogy Saturday MTNA National Conference "A Pioneering Partnership to Keep Musicians Performing" Chicago Downtown Marriott Hotel Chicago, IL  USA www.mtna.org