Sydney Symphony

At a time when a number of orchestras around the world are facing bankruptcy and adverse operating conditions, we are proud to be announcing that 2011 was a year of record ticket sales and occupancy rates for the Sydney Symphony.  Full report downloadable by clicking here.

This exciting new book, Transforming Education through the Arts, will be officially launched by The Hon Minister Dixon next Tuesday 3rd April at NGV in front of over 100 education and arts experts, researchers and industry stakeholders

DMDS is a secure software system which enables labels and artists to send high quality audio files to music directors and decision-makers within the media. AIR will run the program on behalf of its members and the wider independent community.

AIR has successfully used a similar service over the last 3 years to deliver hundreds of independent tracks to music directors at radio networks (commercial, ABC and community), television, print media and background music providers. While the success of our previous provider exceeded expectations, we're excited to now partner with D-Star in order to provide  significant savings and better results for the independent sector.

D-Star's DMDS is fast becoming one of the industry preferred standards of music delivery in Australia and the partnership will allow AIR to introduce other D-Star services including radio monitoring with SPINS and D-Star Digital music video clip delivery members in the future.

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Sydney Symphony has published an excellent teacher checklist for taking school children to an SSO concert/excursion.  The little publication would be useful for any excursions.  Download it by clicking here.

Music Play for Life

The More Music Toolkit shares the experiences of real Australian schools. Most are Flame Award winners with longstanding, successful music programs. The principals, teachers, parents and students at these schools have worked together to create engaging and creative music programs - sometimes overcoming significant barriers to do so.  Website.

Art Access Australia

What words do you use when you talk about disability? Are you confident that you know what to say and how to say it? The language of disability changes quickly and different terms are used within and outside of Australia. Here's some AAA Advice to help get you on the right track... Download AAA Advice on Disability Language here.

Arts and Culture in Australia: A Statistical Overview, 2011 (cat. no. 4172.0), also known as the Arts and Culture Compendium, was updated mid-December 2011.  For details go to website.

International Music Council

Nearly 300 music actors from some 50 countries all over the world participated in the Forum took from 26th September to the 1st of October 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. The documentation of the 4th IMC World Forum on Music is now complete and available on the Forum website.

Huff Post

During World War II, Britain's finance minister recommended to Winston Churchill that they cut arts funding in order to better support the war effort. Churchill's reply was, "Then what are we fighting for?" This remark resonates with an enormous difference in values between the U.S. and Europe.  Read more.

National Dance Education Organisation

The Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts: Ages 5-18 serve as a guide for dance teachers, artists, administrators, and students for the benchmark years of 4th grade (9-10 years), 8th grade (13-14 years), and 12th grade (17-18 years). They outline what students should know and be able to do in the art of dance in the arts-making processes of Performing, Creating, Responding, and Interconnecting dance to life and other disciplines.  For details go to website.

The BISG delivered its final report to Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research in September 2011. The report  was publicly released on 9 November 2011 following a launch held at Parliament House in Canberra. The BISG's report contains a series of recommendations to Government along with a proposed suite of actions for industry. Over coming months, Government will consider the BISG's recommendations in the context of whole-of-Government priorities and provide a preliminary response in early 2012.   For full report, click here.

Musical Futures
Refresh your stock of Warm Ups here! Great for leading to on to whole-class music learning or to get those musical brains switched on!
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Arts Management Network

Our December newsletter addresses the connection between arts and sports. What are the commons, what the differencies of both spheres? The idea to this special topic appeared at the 2nd Kufstein Summer School in Epidavros/Greece this year. While discovering the ancient sights we wonder why the originally close relationship between arts and sports has been developed into a distance.
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The annual report is a report on the operations of the Australia Council for the 2010-11 financial year.

Australia Council for the Arts

This Register, designed, populated and maintained for the Musicological Society of Australia, spans the period 1917 to 2011 and contains 2829 records

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MyLanguage is perhaps one of the most valuable tools for living that newly arrived Australians can get their hands on today. It provides a whole suite of important pieces of information – and in more than 65 languages.

IFACCA

WorldCP will be a central, web-based and continuously updated database of country-specific profiles of cultural policies modelled on the Council of Europe/ERICarts Compendium. The database will also provide the capacity to monitor and analyse global trends in key aspects of cultural policies.

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Arts Law Centre
Artists in the Black (AITB) is a legal service for Indigenous artists, communities and arts organisations. It is operated by the Arts Law Centre of Australia (Arts Law), the national community legal centre for the arts.
AITB aims to provide access to legal advice and information in a culturally appropriate way. We are here to help you.
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This is an essential guide for anyone teaching music.
We explain the different copyright provisions that apply when teaching in educational institutions, as well as when you are teaching privately or for a private organisation.
Details and order from Australian Copyright Council

Arts Law is the national community legal centre for the arts. Arts Law provides legal advice and information on a wide range of legal and business matters for musicians

Whether the art form is theater, dance, music, festival, or the visual arts and galleries, the arts manager is the liaison between the artists and their audience. Bringing together the insights of educators and practitioners, this groundbreaker links the fields of management and organizational management with the ongoing evolution in arts management education. It especially focuses on the new directions in arts management as education and practice merge. It uses cases studies as both a pedagogical tool and an integrating device. Separate sections cover Performing and Visual Arts Management, Arts Management Education and Careers, and Arts Management: Government, Nonprofits, and Evaluation. The book also includes a chapter on grants and raising money in the arts.

More information and Ordering:
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765617412/ref=nosim/artsmanagement0b

Senior managers can apply practical insights from neuroscience to make themselves—and their teams—more creative.

Source: McKinsey Quarterly

The Arts in Psychotherapy publishes 5 issues per annum, and is an international journal for professionals in the fields of mental health and education. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists

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Organisation: Freemuse

When you deal with visa issuing offices and embassies it may sometimes be useful to refer to various points set out in international conventions and recommendations.

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