MUSIC 101
Career Presentations & Workshops for Youth
When: Saturdays October 5, 19, 26 & November 2 at 2 p.m.
Where: The Sarah McLachlan School of Music / 138 East Seventh Ave. Vancouver
Admission: Free / No reservations
MISCELLANEOUS Productions, Canada’s leading community-engaged arts organization working with underserved and at-risk children and youth, will present MUSIC 101, a series free two-hour workshops sharing knowledge and resources and fostering connections between musicians, composers, and other professionals and marginalized youth interested in pursuing careers in the music industry who do not otherwise have access to professional training. Our target audience is youth and young adults interested in the music industry and music education.
The Susan Pond Music 101 Program for Youth workshops will take place Saturdays October 5, 19, 26 and November 2 before a live audience at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. Each workshop will feature an interview with a music industry professional, unplugged live and video components of their music, and roundtable discussions with the youth in attendance. Workshop topics will topics including: how to access grant; scholarships and bursaries; creating an electronic press kit; harm reduction and substance misuse; sexual harassment and mental health in the music industry; and digital hygiene, privacy and dealing with cyber bullying. Participants are encouraged to be aware of their own comfort levels and potential triggers. Recommended age of audience members is 11 years and older.
Each workshop/presentation will be videotaped and posted to the MISCELLANEOUS Productions YouTube account after the four events are completed.
The program is named in memory of music teacher and activist Susan Pond (1939 to 2019) and her important contributions to the work of MISCELLANEOUS Productions.
The participating panelists all have varied career trajectories, and all are successful working musicians, composers, producers, and educators who have previous experience working with at-risk youth.
The panelists will include:
Oct.5 – Grammy-award winning, Canadian urban music singer, musician, and producer Chin Injeti;
Oct. 19 – Renae Morriseau is a Cree (nehiyaw iskwew ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ) and Saulteaux woman (nahkawiskwêw ᓇᐦᑲᐃᐧᐢᑫᐧᐤ) from the Treaty 1 Territory on the lands known as Manitoba. Actor/Director of many popular film/TV shows (X Files, North of 60), Community-Engaged Artist collaborating with Indigenous musicians. She is the Leader of M’Girl, a percussive-based hand drum song group;
Oct.26 – gospel, jazz, funk, musical theatre and World music singer/songwriter Dawn Pemberton;
Nov. 2 Contemporary New Music classically-trained composer, kooky rock band songwriter and producer, keyboardist/multi-instumentalist Jaya Story has composed for ensembles Standing Wave, Ecstatic Waves and two MISCELLANEOUS Productions films. The first three workshop guest artists will be interviewed by MISCELLANEOUS Productions’ artistic director and artistic producer/co-programmer of the 2011 and 2013 Raincity Rap urban music festivals and conferences, Elaine Carol and the final workshop interviewer will be Juno-nominated percussionist, Robin Layne.
About MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTIONS: Founded in 2000 in Vancouver, Canada and currently in its 25th year of working with youth in creating performances and film and media works for the public, the company is best described as “a hip hop theatre boot camp” for culturally and socially representative youth who face multiple barriers. MISCELLANEOUS Productions presented the two largest Canadian urban music festival/conferences in Western Canada. The company presents an original work every two years, continues to tour, give free peer-run workshops to at-risk youth, and make films about their performances.
