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Here is the link to Julie’s earthquake safety song written and recorded yesterday as a fundraiser for the Champion Centre. Many of the families are in shock and all children and parents need something quick and easy that you can remember. They will be teaching this to all families next week. the song will be available on itunes at the end of next week but you can hear it on You tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8DWpBatEw 

Genevieve will hold classes at the Darfield Rec Centre (Civil Defence Headquarters) Friday morning at 10am.

Musikool Kids is on at Christchurch North Methodist Church (previously Papanui Methodist) cnr Chapel St and Harewood Road on Friday at 10am. Older Siblings most welcome.

Breakfast Church with Music and Movement is back on this Sunday at St Albans Uniting cnr Knowles St and Nancy Ave. Bring the family for breakfast and music. 

Music and Movement classes in Mount Pleasant and Linwood will carry on as normal tomorrow. This will give parents in these areas an opportunity to meet up and discuss their situations, while allowing the children to have a little of their routine return.

Kidz Muzic with Eileen and Shirley at the Mount Pleasant Presbytarian Church is on Thursday morning at 10am and 11.30am.

Jody’s Music and Movement is on at Linwood Avenue Union Church at 10.30am.

We will update this website with classes that are happening as we are advised of them.

Keep safe! 

We hope everyone is safe and ok after the quake! 

At this stage while schools, early childhood centres and council facilities are closed there will be many Musical Parenting sessions unable to go ahead due to safety issues. 

If you are a Music and Movement teacher and are still running sessions please contact Jody 027-2260729 and we will post these on this website.

Link to the latest CMPA newsletter: CMPA August Newsletter

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Dr Sheila Woodward from the University of Southern California is visiting Christchurch and is giving a multimedia presentation on Musical Interactions and Interventions with the Foetus, Neonate and Premature Infant.
This is an amazing opportunity to listen to an expert in the field. There will be time for questions.

CMPA members are all invited to the presentation which is on Thursday 22 July at 3pm at the Champion Centre. A $5 donation to the Champion Centre (on which you can claim tax back) is payable on the door.

Attendance will count towards CMPA Qualified Member 2011 status - of which more later…

About Dr Sheila C. Woodward:

 Dr. Sheila C. Woodward is Chair of Music Education at the University of Southern California, USA. She is a native of South Africa and earned her Ph. D. in Music Education from the University of Cape Town in 1993 and a Performer’s Licentiate in Organ from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London). She previously taught at the University of South Florida, USA, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Dr. Woodward has served on numerous professional boards in South Africa, in the USA and internationally; among them being two terms on the Board of Directors of ISME (2004 – 2008), three terms on the ISME Early Childhood Music Education Commission (1992 – 1998, two of those as Chair), and two terms on the Executive Board of the Society for General Music (MENC, USA). Dr. Woodward’s research focus is Music and Wellbeing. She explores this from before birth to adulthood, with studies on the fetus and neonate, the premature infant, the young child, the at-risk youth, the juvenile offender and the adult musician. She has published numerous articles, in addition to chapters in Elliott’s Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues (Oxford, 2005) and in Malloch and Trevarthen’s Communicative musicality: Narratives of expressive gesture and being human (Oxford, 2009). She has been awarded generous grants to promote international exchange programs in which South African musicians visit the USA to work and perform alongside American students and professors, and she has directed numerous outreach programs in both countries 

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