Web Links
Indigenous Musical Sovereignty, Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance
Indigenous Arts Protocols, Ontario Arts Council
Resounding the Orchestra : Relationships between Canadian orchestras, Indigenous peoples, and people of colour Re-sounding the Orchestra, by Soraya Peerbaye and Dr. Parmela Attariwala, is the concluding report after a year of research on the relationship between Indigenous artists and other artists of colour with the orchestral sector. The report ends with advice for orchestras on how to show accountability for imbalances and how to begin rectifying them, starting with a re-evaluation of orchestral culture itself. The report also calls on the CMC to redress appropriated Indigenous music in our catalogue, an important call to action we are presently heeding with the help of a growing Indigenous Advisory Council (insert link to page).
Sphinx Composer Resources Director
Mikaela Session – Jazz is Black American classical music
Truth & Reconciliation Summit, The Banff Centre
Center for Black Music Resesarch
Canadian Art Song Project, Indigenous composers
Vince Fontaine: indigenous Music
Guide to IBPOC musicians and related literature, University of Toronto Research Guide A guide to support research on the musical traditions and scholarship of IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) individuals and groups.
BIPOC Voices A library of music for voice and instruments by IBPOC composers, directed by Rich Coburn, who states that “the arts can provide a powerful platform for us to hold space for those with different histories and perspectives.” Currently accepting works by Canadian and American composers who are comfortable identifying as Indigenous, Black, or a Person of Colour.
Amplified Opera Amplified Opera is a company here to listen, and to challenge the status quo. They seek to hold space where challenging and diverse voices can express themselves and share their experiences in a way that feels authentic and on their own terms. They were chosen for the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021 “Disruptor-in-Residence” program.
Decolonizing Choirs Panel (1-hour and a half panel discussion, video) A panel offered in March 2021 by the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, featuring Andrew Balfour, Dr. Elaine Choi, Hussein Janmohamed, and Dr. Melissa Morgan. Panel-members discuss how choirs can decolonize. They cover many topics, including advice on how to balance the canon repertoire with the works of composers from equity-seeking communities.
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie – Keynote Speech, Humboldt Forum, 2021(video, 20:01)
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie is a well-known Nigerian author who has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, and one of FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders. A McArthur Fellow, she has received honorary doctorates for many universities, and her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her keynote speech at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin in September, 2021 addresses the profound importance of returning cultural treasures looted by European colonizers to the countries from which they were taken.
