Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association

Victorian Orff-Schulwerk Association

58 Koonawarra Street, North Clayton, Vic 3168

Phone: 03 9562 6122
Fax: 03 8610 1936
email: click here

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Orff Music Education

The nature is joyful
The goal is music
The focus is on listening
The pathway is creative
The teaching is an art

updated 8 December 2004

Attend a PD Day to get lots of ideas for 2005! - click on underlined headings for lots more information
Professional Development dates for 2005
Level 3 & 4 courses Some pre-course work now available. Updated 8th Dec. Accomodation options listed	*Orff Courses - Levels 3 & 4 10th - 14th January, 2005 Venue: Glen Waverley Anglican Church Hall, 800 Waverley Road, Glen Waverley Presenters: Gerard Van der Geer from Tasmania & Carol Richards** from Newcastle University Enquiries: Melissa Dods on 9849 0501 or email Melissa (click here)
.	Singing Works! singing leader workshop for teachers, choir leaders & community singers - Saturday 12th February 2005 - 9.30am to 3.15pm Presenter: Christoph Maubach, Australian Catholic University (ACU) Venue: Recital Hall, ACU, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy Cost: $50 normal, $45 for VOSA members Workshop content details: Christoph on 9953 3279 or email Christoph (click here) Enquiries: Glenys Gijsbers on 9562 6122 or email Glenys (click here)
.	Living Music & Dance Conference - Thur 17th to Sat 19th March 2005 Featured presenter: James Harding from the USA Venue: Darebin Arts Centre, Preston Enquiries: Sarah Brooke 03 5474 2404, email Sarah: click here
Level 1 & 2 courses	*Orff Courses - Levels 1 & 2 11th - 16th April 2005** Venue: Glen Waverley Anglican Church Hall, 800 Waverley Road, Glen Waverley Presenters: Sarah Brooke, Susie Davies-Splitter, Melissa Dods, Sara Glenie, Judy Johnston, Christoph Maubach, Carolyn Royal, Barb Shearer Enquiries: Melissa Dods on 9849 0501 or email Melissa (click here)
*ECCPA_05 Presenters:* Stuart Manins, Julie Wylie, Janet Channon and Wendy Jensen - all from New Zealand - plus many more!	The Ninth Early Childhood Conference of Performing Arts (ECCPA) 4th & 5th June 2005 *"Health and Wellbeing Through the Performing Arts"* Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June 2005 @ Genazzano FCJ College, Cotham Road, Kew Enquiries: Glenys Gijsbers on 9562 6122 or email Glenys (click here)

Congratulations to Christoph Maubach who was awarded the
Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk Award of Honour
at the ANCOS National Conference, Hobart, January 2004
Click here to go to photos and speeches.

Dear VOSA Members

VOSA is in the process of developing an online early childhood music education resource centre supported by a grant from the Forest Hill Foundation. The first stage is to make available most of the ECCPA session notes. Could you please assist by downloading the following two trial documents and see if you can view them OK. Just click on the titles to download. You may get a message about some features may not show but ignore this as there are no special features in these documents.

Then could you send me an email letting me know if you were successful or not and the computer operating system you used (eg Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Macintosh OS9, Macintosh OSX, etc) and the version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (eg Version 5, 6, 7 - these files will not be able to be read by version 4 or earlier - but you can get a free updated reader from www.adobe.com/acrobat). I would also like to know roughly how long it took once you clicked on the link.

Many thanks, Paul Sierakowski - my email (click here)
Hilary Henshaw - 2002 ECCPA "Your Turn" (4 pages, 68K)
Tanya Batt - 2002 ECCPA "Imagined Worlds" (7 pages, 92K)