Help our friends at Musicounts win a $100,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant

Dr. David Alter is one of our new Champions for Music Education (to be announced September 2010) and head Vigour Projects. For a look at their cool summer initiative, please visit www.vigourprojects.com.

Papers are invited on any aspect of the UNESCO Roadmap for Arts Education for Volume 11 - Navigating the UNESCO Roadmap for Arts Education: Current directions in research and best practice (Fall 2010) This issue will focus on current developments in arts and learning in the context of the UNESCO Roadmap for Arts Education. The Roadmap was an important outcome of the first UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2006.

The popular band-and-strings program in the Vancouver School District has been saved from the chopping block while budgets still have to be finessed to support the program. There are hopes for an emergency meeting with the Education Minister before the budget is finalized in June.

The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) recently announced they will have to cut up to 165 positions (including teachers) as a result of a significant funding shortfall. SOFA (Save Our Fine Arts) has learned this will likely mean the reduction of up to 4 teachers per school. In addition, this could have a negative impact on the CBE’s ability to provide funding for a number of locally developed courses, including a number of fine arts programs.