The first River (Re-Imagined) presentation of 2023 will take place on Saturday, February 11 at 10AM EST, at the Canadian Music Centre. In addition, it will be streamed online for those who are unable to attend in person, and recorded for those who are unable to attend in real-time.

Presented in collaboration with the Canadian New Music Network (CNMN), this workshop will be an introduction to the CNMN’s Participatory Creative Music Hub: a new music education resource featuring a collection of videos profiling what creating music looks like in five different music programs across Canada. The videos demonstrate creative exercises, games, warm-ups, and ideas for lessons, units, and courses.

Attending classroom and private lesson teachers will leave with creative music games and exercises drawn from these videos to try with their own students. We will also spend some time reflecting on what role these creative practices might have in disrupting the colonial patterns still often central to institutional music education.

The workshop will be hosted by Doug Friesen, a teacher, musician, and researcher based in Toronto, and Katherine Fraser, a violinist and classroom music teacher also based in Toronto.