Success: Year 1

A review of what success looks like at Music Interchange in Year 1:
 
​Kids expressing themselves musically in their home environment!

Teens feeling more confident about their abilities to create music!

Adults having fun, positive, group singing experiences and gaining confidence in their singing abilities!

• Crash courses in basic music theory for 15 adults support the music-making activities they are involved in
• A dozen 5-6 year olds make friends through music
• Working with early-childhood organizations to bring interactive music classes into their spaces, impacting 50 kids aged 1-5 years old.
• Engaging 100 adults in a pop song choir event, mixing choral singers and self-declared non-singers, without sheet music, and HAVING A BLAST delivering this experience!
• Expanding piano playing skills of a dozen kids who confidently performed at an end of year recital for their family and friends. Five of these kids participated in the Yellowknife Music Festival.
• Expecting 15 people to register for a program, and being overwhelmed with 35!
• Expecting 30 people at a drop in event, and welcoming 60!
• Helping a group of Francophones and a group of New-to Canada teens write lyrics and music for two songs about Yellowknife!
• Receiving grant money to run programs and buy necessary instruments + office equipment to deliver programs!Thanks for NT Arts Council!!  Thanks to ITI SEED grant!
• Being organized, delivering well-planned programming and making it happen!​
• Being overwhelmed with the number of program requests in this community

And now onto year two!

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