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The Great Gatsby Gala - Melbourne’s benevolent lend their support for disadvantaged kids despite the challenging economic climate
The Global Financial Crisis might mean that times are much tougher than usual, but that didn’t stop many of Melbourne...
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Melbourne’s Dazzling Children Sing n’ Swing into Action!
The Sing ’n Swing Show was a celebration of what happens when song and dance come together in a great genre of music that took the world by storm in the 1920s and 1930s. On 20 November ...
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Geelong’s Children Hear their Voices in the Air!Over 200 children from all over Geelong who had participated in free, tailored workshops provided by The Song Room performed at the I Hear the Voices in the Air event at Deakin University’s C...
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Students Sing Among the Stars for this year’s Education Week Celebrations
‘Fly me to the moon and let me sing among the stars’ was the theme for this years’ Song Room Education Week Event. Celebrating the International year of Astronomy and the f...
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Sydney comes out to support The Song Room
The Boston Consulting Group’s Sydney offices were the scene of an event to help raise support for The Song Room. The Song Room thanked its major supporters and detailed its exciting plans to use the arts as an ...
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The Song Room Choir shows its True
Colours! Education Week 2008, BMW Edge
Education
Week’s theme of Learn, Thrive and Grow came alive when over 300 children from 9 disadvantaged primary
schools come together in a wonderful celebration of singing, d...
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The Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra and Christ the King
Primary School
collaborate in a performance to remember
The Song
Room facilitated a wonderful artistic collaboration between The Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra, Christ the King
Primary School,
B...
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Memphis’ famed Stax Music Academy
and The Song Room rev up Melbourne!
In June
2008, the renowned Stax Music Academy
from Memphis, USA
teamed with The Song Room to give some migrant children and youth recently
arrived in Australia
the sort of oppo...
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It’s a long way from Limopo, South Africa to Federation Square!
In August 2008 the talented children from Debney Meadows, Fitzroy and Carlton Primary Schools, Collingwood and Noble Park English Language Schools and adults from Belgium Avenue Neighbou...
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The Song Room Starts Up In Western Australia The Song Room is very pleased to announce the commencement of innovative programs in Mandurah, Western Australia, south of Perth. ...
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The Song Room Launch in the Northern Territory
The Song Room was pleased to announce in July 2007 the launch of its unique, innovative programs in the Northern Territory at a luncheon hosted by Minister Chris Natt at Parliament House, Darwin.
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The Governor joins The Song Room at KPMG Cocktail Party
At a function in May 2007 in KPMG’s magnificent Collins St Atrium, and in the presence of the Governor, Professor David de Kretser AC, The Song Room thanked its major supporters and detailed its e...
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NGV & Arts Alive The Song Room and The National Gallery of Victoria have formed a partnership to produce “ARTS ALIVE” for grades 3 and 4 students. Arts Alive comprises a guided tour of some of the gallery’s finest works and a one hour live performan...
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A Night at the Opera, Sydney Opera House
The magnificent Sydney Opera House was turned over to The Song Room on 31st of August to allow disadvantaged children from across Sydney to participate in an opera theatre event at this amazing venue during the da...
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It’s Showtime – The 7th Annual Song Room Soirée
Melbourne charity’s night of nights, the 7th Annual Song Room Soirée was held on 23rd of August at the Sofitel’s magnificent Grand Ballroom, to raise funds for arts intervention programs as a mean...
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The Song Room Wins Tasmanian AbaF Award Each year the Australian Business Arts Foundation award arts and cultural organisations and business organisations for best practice in partnering, volunteering and giving. We are very excited to announce that The S...
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Fosters Group supports The Song Room in the NT
Fosters Group CEO, Trevor O’Hoy, had great pleasure in presenting a cheque for $50,000 to The Song Room under its ‘Foster’s in the Community’ program to be put towards development of an early interve...
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I Hear the Voices in the Air! “I Hear the Voices in the Air” was a statement written to The Song Room by a Grade Three boy in 2005 after his experience of being in a Song Room Choir. These words inspired a massed choral event sponsored by The Strategi...
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Music Helps Refugees Settle into Their New Home
New migrants experience cultural, socio-economic, language and literacy barriers. Many are refugees and have endured lives of displacement and confusion. Many have no first language literacy skills and th...
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The Song Room’s Multi-Lingual Hip Hop Event for Young People – Mental Health Day 2007As part of World Mental Health Day’s theme of The Impact of Culture and Diversity, secondary students from some of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged and culturally d...
