1. Understanding the theory and practice of Music in the Community

2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 27 Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

3. Theory… Who told you that you couldn’t do this? Welcome to a newer you. (Community Music Handbook, Pete Moser) Community music comprises music activities in a community control those activities. (federation of Music Collective, based on the wrings of Anne Cahill)

4. Theory… The Personal touch is everything (Phil Mullen) Creative work is organized chaos (Evelyn Grant) In Community Music, the group is the curriculum (Frances Shanahan) A “community” doesn’t have to be a geographical one (Sound Sense)

5. Theory… Community Music activities are based on the premise that everyone has the right and ability to make music… … Such programmes can act as a counterbalance and/or complement to formal music institutions and commercial music concerns… (ISME Commission for Community Music Activity Many Music's- One Circle 1998)

6. Theory… Community Music activity is often a process in which the participants themselves change and develop making new discoveries about themselves, empowering themselves, finding new identity within a community… gaining new understanding and tolerance. These achievements result when the participant has direction of the process… the empowerment of the community music worker and Trainee must also be borne in mind. (ISME CMA Commission The Role of Music in a Changing World 1992)

7. Practice… Participatory Facilitates creativity/listening/performing Develops skills Inspires/enables/shares Encourages ownership Inclusive- all ages, skills, background, culture

8. Practice… Workshop Fundamentals Safe Place Circle (trust, belonging, caring, empathy) Facilitation Commitment to creativity Within a particular genre All styles accepted Access-Space Access-Language

9. Practice… Positive Reinforcement Inclusive approach Inclusive approach Together empowered Towards democracy of process Individuation Process and product of equal value Acceptance that a person’s musical and personal growth are of equal importance Commitment to evaluation and accountability fun

10. Practice… What is it? Who is it for? Where does it happen? What happens? Why?