Page 362 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 February 2010
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members to learn that it has won the national music in communities award for the best all-round community music program in Australia. The award, decided from 170 entries from organisations all around Australia, recognises the unique qualities of Music for Everyone in providing such a broad range of music programs that can make active participation in music an enjoyable part of life and achievable for people of all ages and abilities.
The music in communities awards are an initiative of music, play for life, the Music Council of Australia’s grassroots music advocacy program aimed at getting more people musically active in Australia. Inaugurated last year, the award offers a prize pool of $20,000 as an encouragement to groups that are often the unsung heroes of Australia’s cultural life. This year, the award carried a wellbeing theme, to draw out stories of local music groups and programs whose activities contribute to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. The award judges made this statement about Music for Everyone:
With a mission to make music accessible to everybody in the community, regardless of background, age or ability, ACT community music organisation, Music for Everyone, is a model of success: much loved and much used.
The prize money from this latest award will support the programs that Music for Everyone offers to the disability sector, especially a new project they are building with ACT special schools to create a performance troupe of young drummers chosen from local children with special needs. I am pleased to acknowledge the important work of Music for Everyone in our community, and I heartily congratulate them on their well-deserved award.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 4.42 pm until Tuesday, 23 February 2010, at 10 am.
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