Songwriting Workshops for Youth

May 31, 2017

Project Information

Songwriting Workshops: For Youth ages 12 to 18, there are three in-community workshops where youth will be working with singers and artist facilitators to co-create a music piece about immigration and encounter. There will also be mentors (Stewart MacNeil, Bryan Cherwick, and Robert Deveaux) at each of the locations giving information and telling stories of their experience or families experience with immigration to Canada and Cape Breton. For more information please call (902)563-1696. The deadline for registration is June 15th.

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Songwriting Workshops for Youth

May 31, 2017

Project Information

Songwriting Workshops: For Youth ages 12 to 18, there are three in-community workshops where youth will be working with singers and artist facilitators to co-create a music piece about immigration and encounter. There will also be mentors (Stewart MacNeil, Bryan Cherwick, and Robert Deveaux) at each of the locations giving information and telling stories of their experience or families experience with immigration to Canada and Cape Breton. For more information please call (902)563-1696. The deadline for registration is June 15th.

Tagged 2017, Adam Farrow Adam Farrow, Bryan Cherwick, Canada 150, Canada Research Chairs, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Cape Breton University, Community Foundations of Canada, Foundations Communautaires du Canada, immigration, Innovation.ca, June, Library, Membertou, multiculturalism day, Multiversity, Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust, NSRIT, Register, Registration, Robert Deveaux, SOcial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Songs and Stories of Immigration, songwriting, SSHRCC, Stewart MacNeil, The Centre for Sound Communities, workshops

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Songs and Stories of Immigration and Encounter

May 23, 2017

More Updates Coming Soon

Project Information

Songwriting Workshops: For Youth ages 12 to 18, there are three in-community workshops where youth will be working with singers and artist facilitators to co-create a music piece about immigration and encounter. There will also be mentors (Stewart MacNeil, Bryan Cherwick, and Robert Deveaux) at each of the locations giving information and telling stories of their experience or families experience with immigration to Canada and Cape Breton. For more information please call (902)563-1696. The deadline for registration is June 15th.

Tagged 2017, Adam Farrow, Bryan Cherwick, Canada 150, Canada Research Chairs, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Cape Breton University, Community Foundations of Canada, Foundations Communautaires du Canada, immigration, Innovation.ca, June, Library, Membertou, multiculturalism day, Multiversity, Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust, NSRIT, Register, Registration, Robert Deveaux, SOcial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Songs and Stories of Immigration, songwriting, SSHRCC, Stewart MacNeil, The Centre for Sound Communities, workshops

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Your invitation! Launching the Centre for Sound Communities

September 18, 2016

Dear colleagues and friends,

Please join us next Thursday, September 22nd, as we celebrate the launch of our new research space, the Centre for Sound Communities!

Please extend this invitation widely – all are welcome.

Refreshments will be provided.

The launch of the new Centre for Sound Communities will be broadcast, live, on Mainstreet Cape Breton, CBC Radio One, with host Wendy Bergfeldt.

For more information, and to RSVP, contact Brittany Erickson, Special Research Projects Manager at the Centre for Sound Communities:

brittany_erickson@cbu.ca / (902) 563-1613.

Tagged Barra MacNeils, Cape Breton University, CBC Radio One, Centre for Sound Communities, Innovation.ca, Launch, Mainstreet Cape Breton, Marcia Ostashewski, NSRIT, Wendy Bergfeldt

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