Latest NewsThe Song Room wins the
Victorian AbaF Giving Award
In conjunction with the wonderful support from Foster’s Group and its Community Grants program, The Song Room has been awarded the AbaF Giving Award for 2009.
The Song Room would like to thank all of its supporters for their assistance, and especially Foster’s Group for its fantastic backing, which has helped to leverage support for programs across New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and nationally.
Paul Curran and Richard Price from The Song Room join with Lil Barac from Fosters Group and Rob Bazzani to accept the 2009 Victorian AbaF Giving Award
Photographer - Mili Wijeratne
Hear About the Value
of Arts Education
The Song
Room’s CEO, Caroline Aebersold, and the Australian Council for Education
Research’s Dr Jennifer Bryce, talk to Radio National’s Richard Aedy on the Life
Matters program about the value of arts education in children’s lives and the
inclusion of the arts in the national curriculum.
Click here to
download the interview: Hear About the Value
of Arts Education (MP3)
Article in The Australian Newspaper- Changing our tune on education -17 April 2009
Network Ten’s 9AM with David and Kym interview with CEO, Caroline Aebersold, and Musica Viva’s David Hobson on the benefits of music and arts education for children - 23 April 2009. Click here to view: Network Ten’s 9AM with David and Kym Interview
The Prime Minister Acknowledges The Song Room
The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, gave a landmark speech recently to an exclusive Centre for Independent Studies think tank in Coolum, Queensland.In the context of the Australian Government’s focus on building a framework for social inclusion for all Australians, he confirmed the importance of The Song Room’s partnership model with the philanthropic, corporate and government sectors:
"..recent years have seen some valuable individual initiatives. Macquarie and other corporates are financing The Song Room project, to bring music and the arts to children in disadvantaged communities. These are outstanding examples of where the business community is improving opportunities for people in Indigenous communities”, the Prime Minister said.
