Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families
Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families
This report from WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation combines a comprehensive literature and landscape review that highlights the value, impact and scaling potential of music and sustainable music interventions/programs throughout the world.
Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Conference
Dennie Palmer Wolf will be leading a session on research and evaluation at Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Conference, an on-line international gathering of musicians, programs, and researchers using music to support the well-being of young families around the world. The session will take place on June 12th from 10-12.
Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor
WolfBrown has launched the COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor, an international collaboration between top researchers, funders, service organizations, and hundreds of cultural organizations who want to make informed decisions about how and when to re-start programming based on rigorous research data. While health officials consider how and when to re-open venues, we need to gain a … Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor
TYA/USA Virtual Festival & Conference
Alan Brown and Dennie Palmer Wolf will give a keynote titled Trust and Safety: Welcoming families back to performances after the Covid crisis. Read more about the conference at http://www.tyausa.org/festival/
Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor – Update
Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor – Update
More study partners on board; methodological updates; gearing up for results
It’s been nearly a month since we announced the Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor and there is much to report. What germinated in early March as a vague idea about the need to hear from audiences about their feelings about going out again to cultural events has blossomed into an international tracking study of a proportion I never could have imagined.
WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation Publish a New Literature and Landscape Review: Making Joyful Noise
WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation Publish a New Literature and Landscape Review: Making Joyful Noise
Dennie Palmer Wolf shares, “The report is a call to action, urging organizations and governments to invest in the well-being of young families using what we know about the joyous, affiliative, and communicative powers of music.”
Dennie Palmer Wolf is Honored by the Association of Teaching Artists
Dennie Palmer Wolf is Honored by the Association of Teaching Artists
Dennie Palmer Wolf has received the Association of Teaching Artists’ Teaching Artistry Ally Award.
Silver Linings: A Reimagined Revival by Victoria Plettner-Saunders
Silver Linings: A Reimagined Revival by Victoria Plettner-Saunders
In her new essay, Victoria Plettner-Saunders reflects on opportunities to re-open better workplaces in the arts and culture sector in the wake of the pandemic.
Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft
Dennie Palmer Wolf’s article, “Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft” has been published via Navigating the Crisis.
In this piece, Dennie Palmer Wolf imagines the possibilities for teaching artists in the context of COVID-19. She writes “This time, strange as it is, is not time out; it’s time to plunge deep in.”