2020-2021 Workshops
For this upcoming year, we will be hosting three online workshops. Details for each workshop will be announced prior to the event. There will not be a subscription membership this year. For updates, please follow us on social media, sign up for our mailing list, and check out our website. We are here to support you!
You can also use your Carl Orff Canada Membership, access workshops (at member pricing) hosted by Orff Chapters across Canada.
You can also use your Carl Orff Canada Membership, access workshops (at member pricing) hosted by Orff Chapters across Canada.
Virtual Chat NightOur next Virtual Chat Night is TBA . Please stay tuned for upcoming details on the next chat night.
Questions? Email Sarah at: president@calgaryorff.com . Director NominationsThe current term for the Calgary Orff Chapter Board finishes this year. At our next AGM (immediately following the March 13, 2021 workshop), we will be electing a new slate of directors: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary.
The nominee for each position must have served a full term on the Calgary Chapter Board within the past two years and be a member in good standing with the Calgary Orff Chapter. They must be nominated by two other members also of good standing. Please use this link to nominate an individual for a director's role on the Calgary Orff Board. We also need more individuals to serve on the board as members at large. Members at large provide a broader representation to the board: they attend board meetings, assist with workshops, and can take on other duties as needed. This is an unelected position, but integral to the future of the Chapter. Calgary WorkshopsMarch 2021 workshop and AGM meeting to follow
We are excited to welcome Sue Harvie as the clinician for our March 2021 virtual workshop! The workshop link will be sent to your registration email the day before the workshop. To access member pricing, your Carl Orff Canada membership must be up to date. We hope to see you there! (online)
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Using your Carl Orff Canada Membership, access workshops at member pricing hosted by Orff Chapters across Canada.
- Carl Orff Canada presents: Developing Critical Views for the Music Classroom with Brandi Waller-Pace and Syreeta Neal. Saturday, March 20, 2021. Free for members of Carl Orff Canada. http://www.orffcanada.ca .
- Ontario Orff Chapter Presents: Everyone Brings Something with James Harding. Saturday, April 10. See this link for further details: https://sites.google.com/view/ontarioorffchapter/teacher-training/orff- workshops-online?authuser=0
What is the Calgary Orff Chapter?
The Calgary Orff Chapter is a chapter of Carl Orff Canada and is dedicated to providing high quality professional development opportunities for music teachers. Through our workshops and courses we aim to help improve the quality of music education in both Calgary and the surrounding areas.
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Carl Orff Canada’s new Mentorship Program* offers additional support to educators who have engaged in Orff training, and assists them in linking the pedagogy of the Orff process with the realities of individual teaching situations. Educators experienced in the Orff process will partner with a teacher who is new to the Orff process to co-create an individualized mentorship program, meeting the mentee’s needs in developing their practice, deepening their understanding of Orff pedagogy, refining their artistic intentions and developing their teaching style and profile. Direct and consistent communication will occur between mentor and mentee, using a wide variety of platforms (including online and face-to-face).
If this sounds like something that you’ve been looking for, please go to the COC website, Members Only, P & P, Section R for more information, including an application form, or contact Liz Kristjanson, Mentorship Committee, Chair at past-president@orffcanada.ca. *The new Mentorship Program is not to be confused with the Levels Course Instructor Internship Program, formerly known as the Mentorship Program. |
What is Orff Schulwerk?
Orff Schulwerk, an approach to music education developed by Carl Orff, is experiential and holistic and is for all types of learners, aural, visual and kinesthetic. In Orff Schulwerk, children learn in an active way, where imitation and exploration lead to improvisation and music literacy. Speech, song, movement and instruments are the vehicles used to teach rhythm, melody, form, harmony and timbre. Carl Orff defined the ideal music for children as “never music alone, but music connected with movement, dance, and speech – not to be [merely] listened to, meaningful only in active participation.”
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
