Stage fright, performance anxiety, nervous butterflies-in-the-stomach before speaking? It might not be as scary or uncommon as you think! Dr. Susan O’Neill, RYME’s Project Director has been in Australia, and was recently interviewed about something that is quite common and frustrating for many musicians, performers and public speakers: Performance Anxiety. Susan O’Neill was featured [...]
Musical Futures Comes to Canada: Engaging Students in Real-World Music Learning
An article by Dr. Susan O’Neill and Dr. Kevin Bespflug was recently published in the Canadian Music Educator: Research to Practice journal about the fascinating Arts Matters Project at Southridge School in British Columbia. The article and more information about the project can be found below. This article reports on a research-practice collaborative work [...]
In the News: A Meeting of Artists and Art Teachers
RYME recently put together an event, Arts Matters, at Simon Fraser University where students from Langley Fine Arts School and students from SFU’s teacher program gathered together. Recently in the Langley Times, an article about this event was featured in the Entertainment section. The article by reporter, Dan Ferguson, details the events and includes a [...]
Arts Matter Lecture Series
Between October 2011 and June 2013, several Canadian artists will share their experiences and address the topic “Arts Matter”. We are honoured and excited to welcome dancer Margie Gillis, painter Tony Scherman, conductor Bramwell Tovey, and many more artists to the Chief Sepass Theatre at the Langley Fine Arts School. To start the series, we are thrilled to [...]
