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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:

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Knowledge sharing.

To create and support knowledge-sharing opportunities among scholars, community music practitioners, and students.

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Community engaged.

To support community-engaged music events and initiatives through knowledge exchange.

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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.