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ChoirKids: Helping Kids Thrive Through Song

November 9th, 2018 | Children's Music, For the Love of Music, VCM Fundraisers

Music empowers children by unlocking their creative potential. It allows them to explore their emotions and creative ideas to help them push past their limitations and barriers. An approach that is often not possible through other forms of instruction or intervention. The Victoria Conservatory of Music is doing just that – helping kids in local […]

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Victoria Part of Children’s Music Journey

July 10th, 2017 | Around Town, Children's Music, VCM News

The Children’s Music Journey is one of the newest and most innovative approaches to learning music currently in use by over 80,000 participants world-wide, including six elementary schools in the Greater Victoria area through the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Award-winning computer software flips the traditional approach to learning music and puts the student in the […]

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Early Childhood Music and Music Therapy Newsletter – November 2016

November 4th, 2016 | Children's Music, VCM News

Early Childhood Music and Music Therapy Newsletter PRELUDE The frenzy of September is winding down and we are welcoming it in our daily routine The usage of electronic devices (ED) among children has tripled since 2011. According to research, some children can spend an average of 7 hours daily on combined TV, computer, smartphones and […]

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Early Childhood Music and Music Therapy Newsletter – October 2016

October 3rd, 2016 | Children's Music, VCM News

The frenzy of September is winding down and we are welcoming it in our daily routine. There is a certain crispness in the air and at this time your children are attending music classes or music therapy sessions. The children are learning and growing, the teachers and therapists are adapting and adding their classes and […]

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Music in Early Childhood: Best Apps for Listening to Children’s Music

July 15th, 2016 | Children's Music, For the Love of Music

Best Apps for Listening to Children’s Music Guest Post by: Cassie of Culture Coverage Music at an early age is a wonderful tool to help aid development. Not only does it improve mental and emotional health, but it has also been linked to academic achievement and logic skills later in life. It’s never too early […]

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ChoirKids now part of the Victoria Conservatory of Music

June 2nd, 2016 | Children's Music, VCM News

James Bay’s ChoirKids gets noteworthy sendoff Richard Watts | Times Colonist June 2, 2016 10:10 AM   What: Arbutus Singers Where: First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd. at Quadra Street When: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 for adults, $30 for families and $12 for seniors and students; 250-384-2840   Since seven-year-old […]

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