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CM Updates Archive
CM Updates is our monthly enewsletter, delivered right to your inbox. Each newsletter features research spotlights, upcoming events, and community music research news. LCMC members can submit their publications, events, workshops, and news to be included in the newsletter by emailing lcmc@wlu.ca.
- Summer 2025: LCMC hosts Queer Quoir! Quoir! Quoir! on July 26; Research Fellow Sara Geidlinger's film is shortlisted for best documentary feature; research spotlight on Dr. Gillian Howell
- May 2025: LCMC to co-host the 2026 Community Music Activity Commission Seminar, Research Fellows Karen Cyrus, Mary Cohen, and Mariette Stephenson have works highlighted; Fundraiser for The Lullaby Project with the Kitchener Public Library.
- April 2025: Announcing LCMC's new web site, and a spotlight on Dr. Andrea Creech, focusing on artistic citizenship and lifelong learning.
- March 2025: LCMC hosts Kehewin Native Dance Theatre (Alberta) for a video screening and artist talk back.
- February 2025: LCMC gets funding for a Participatory Music Network; Research spotlight on hip hop artist and community organizer Sam Nabi, and two upcoming events: panel on Ghanaian drum music, and research talk on Indigenous-settler community music spaces by Katie Tremblay.
- January 2025: The Circle of Music Intergenerational Choir announced their grant of $35,950. LCMC’s virtual panel on Ghanaian drum music showed immense success.
- December 2024: New PD sessions for CM practitioners and researchers in 2025; research spotlight on Dr. Lee Higgins (York St. Johns, UK)
- November 2024: Screening and panel discussion for Temple of Love: The Erroll Starr Story. Highlighted in the research spotlight is Dr. Debbie Lou Ludolph’s work on her choir, Inshallah, and her songbooks: Sing the Circle Wide (2016) and Sing the Journey Deep (2024).
- October 2024: LCMC Community Research Fellow Dr. Phil Mullen visits Laurier Nov 5-6. Research spotlight on LCMC Community Research Fellow, Bev Foster, showcases her work on the Music Care certification program and the upcoming Music Care Conference.
- September 2024: LCMC Academics: Dr. Lee Willingham, Gerard Yun, and Deanna Yerichuk presented at the Community Music Activity Commission Seminar. Project spotlight highlights Sara Geidlinger’s MA thesis Hip Hop Hope: Underground Rhythms and Anti-racism in Waterloo Region.
In the News
2025
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- Queer Quoir! Quoir! Quoir! Sings ‘The Village’ by Wrabel
- Dr. Gillian Howell on Sound FX: Revitalizing Language and Affirming Cultural Strength Through Stories and Song
- Dr. Andrea Creech on Artistic Citizenship and lifelong learning
- Kehewin Native Dance Theatre Screening and Artist Talk Back
- Ghanaian Drum Music in Postsecondary Education Panel
2023
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- LCMC Director Deanna Yerichuk wins Early Career Researcher Award
- Visiting Musician: Dr. Sylvanus (Kwashie) Kuwor
- Sing Fires of Justice 2024: Music is Medicine
- New doc: Empowering Indigenous Youth through Songwriting
- Laurier introduces first-of-its-kind PhD in Music with fields in Community Music and Music Therapy