What's New Archive 2004

• Tripod to open the 30th National Conference
• Keynote Speaker for Conference - Denise Grocke
• 14th National Professional 30th Sep - 1st October 2004, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
• Music Therapists in the News
• Sing and Grow wins further funding
  

Archive of What's New items from 2003, 2002, 2001

Tripod to open the 30th National Conference, 2-3 October, 2004 at the Victoria Arts Centre, Melbourne

Tripod to open the 30th National Conference, 2-3rd October, 2004, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. You are in for a real treat. Tripod will perform for our opening Session on Saturday 2nd October. Here's how they describe themselves:

TRIPOD -- Musical Comedy Never Tasted So Good

Scod, Yon and Gatesy are Tripod, three 'men' who are in serious danger of making musical comedy cool.

These boys are all over this wide, brown land. They have sold-out shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe as well as the Sydney Opera House, Brisbane Powerhouse and various theatres in Perth. Triple J listeners have become taken with the silly yet brilliant songs they come up with in their Song-In-An-Hour segment every Tuesday morning on the breakfast show the highlights of which have spawned two albums.

They are also on the box, as part of the team in the Ten Network sketch show skitHOUSE, which they end every week with a song (what else?).

So while the cool kid and the geeky kid are taking a while to catch on, the rest of the nation is already here.

"A beautifully performed rollercoaster ride of captivating nonsense, fabulous comedy and music... definitely go and see them!" (The Scotsman)

"Obscenely talented. A festival highlight." (The Age, Melbourne)

"The funniest musical comedy act in the country." (Herald Sun, Melbourne)

"Terrifically funny. Out of this world" (Sun Herald, Sydney)

www.3pod.com.au

For further conference information click here

Keynote Speaker -- Associate Professor Denise Grocke

Associate Professor Denise Grocke PhD, RMT, MT-BC, FAMI is Head of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She directs the undergraduate and Graduate Diploma courses in music therapy and the Graduate Diploma in Guided Imagery and Music (Bonny Method), and is the Director of the National Music Therapy Research Unit. She has co-edited 2 texts, authored 14 chapters in books and 50 articles on music therapy and Guided Imagery and Music. She served 3 terms as Chair of the Commission on Education and Training of the World Federation of Music Therapy and was President of WFMT from 1999-2002. Currently she is Chair of the Education Committee of AMTA, and is Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 11th World Congress of Music Therapy to be held in Brisbane 2005.

14th National Professional Development Seminar 30th Sep - 1st October 2004, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

Further details can be found on the PDS page.

Music Therapists in the News

Living Soul

Emma O'Brien RMT is the music therapist on the Oncology Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Living Soul is a unique triple CD which is the culmination of four years of songwriting by Emma with cancer patients and their carers.

Sing & Grow wins further funding.

Congratulations to the Sing & Grow early intervention project (Brisbane) which has been funded for a further 3 years under the REACH program (Responding Early Assisting Children) within the Federal Department of Family & Community Services.

Kate Williams, Acting Director of Sing & Grow,
accepts a 2003 Highly Commended National Child Protection Award for the project,
from Professor Alan Hayes, Chair of the Australian Council for Children and Parenting.

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