About
Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LCMC) aims to be a global leader in promoting evidence-based participatory music practices in Canada and beyond by developing, sharing, and amplifying research that connects scholars, supports community-engaged musicians and enhances musical communities across Canada.
To achieve our mission, we have the following goals:
Knowledge sharing.
To create and support knowledge-sharing opportunities among scholars, community music practitioners, and students.
Community engaged.
To support community-engaged music events and initiatives through knowledge exchange.
Building a vibrant network.
To build vibrant networks of scholars, practitioners, and students focusing on participatory music, within Waterloo region, nationally, and internationally.
Our values:
- LCMC is inclusive of diverse knowledges, communities, and practices.
- LCMC’s work aims to be beneficial to communities.
- The work of the centre is committed to equity and social justice, and we aim to use an intersectional approach in our activities.
- We work from an asset-based approach that builds on individual and organizational strengths.
- LCMC aims to amplify and support work that is already happening, and initiating work where gaps have been identified.
- LCMC is committed to a culture of learning and growing collaboratively in research projects and knowledge exchange/dissemination efforts.