Program

 

AIRS Workshop Program (tentative)


Wednesday July 30th, 2008
Steel Recital Hall, University of PEI


9:00-9:20

Registration

 

9:30

Opening Remarks: Her Honour the Honourable Barbara A. Hagerman Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

Welcome: Dean Richard Kurial (Faculty of Arts, UPEI)

 

9:45

Overview: AIRS- Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing - Annabel Cohen (Project Leader)

 

10:00

Theme 1 - Development

 

Jenna Coady & Marsha Lannan (Psychology, UPEI) – Acquisition of children’s singing: a preliminary study

 

Leslie Phillmore (Psychology, Dalhousie) - What birdsong can tell us about human communication

 

11:00

Coffee and refreshments

 

11:20

Vickie Armstrong (CMTC, UPEI)- A demonstration of the Digital Library and its applications for researchers and practitioners of singing

 

11:40

Theme 2 - Pedagogy

 

Sung-Ha Shin-Bouey (Music, UPEI) - Workshop on Knowing Your Singing and Speaking Voice

 

12:15

Lunch

 

1:30

Theme 2- Pedagogy (cont’d) Moderator: Nancy Beck

 

Panel - The wisdom of voice teachers: Learning to sing across the lifespan

Pamela Campbell (PEI), Suzanne Campbell (PEI) and Monette Gould (New Brunswick)

 

2:15

Singing Interlude Anne Mazer -- Student vocalist

 

2:30

Theme 3 - Well-being- Cultural & Intergenerational Understanding

Moderator: Godfrey Baldacchino

 

Jean Mitchell (Sociology, UPEI)- Singing among the ni-Vanuatu

 

Kati Szego (Folklore & Music, Memorial University) Non-Hawaiian speakers singing Hawaiian-language songs: Lessons for the Canadian and Global Context

 

Rachel Heydon (short video): Introducing a model of an intergenerational art program

 

3:30

Break

 

3:50

Theme 3 - Well-being (cont’d) Moderator: Corrine Hendrikson-Eldershaw

 

Betty Bailey (Exec. Director, PEI Health Sector Council) – Holistic Health Effects of Group Singing: An International Study

 

Peter Mutch (Music Therapist, PEI)– The music therapist perspective: value of singing in dementia

 

4:30

General discussion

 

5:00

Singing interlude - Teresa Doyle

 

5:15

Closing remarks

 

5:20 – 6:45

Dinner In Faculty Lounge

6:45 – 8:00

Concert featuring Monette Gould, Take Note Quartet, Nancy Beck, Meaghan Hoople, Bryson Guptil, Jacqueline Scott, O Beautiful Gaia, among others

 

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