Music Circle: In-Person Workshop

for students with exceptionalities
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Music Classical music Workshops Special needs

In school

Ages 5+

The Music Circle is a unique opportunity for students with exceptionalities to explore orchestral instruments and their sounds, while also developing their auditory, motor, social and motivation skills through an interactive workshop with a trained NAC Orchestra musician and an adaptive music educator. (Elementary and secondary grade levels). 

Watch the Music Circle video series and download the free guidebook for information and strategies to foster musical engagement for the special needs community.

Learn more about the artists

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    Second Horn (retired) Elizabeth Simpson
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    Founder and Director, Lotus Centre Erin Parkes, Ph.D.

Learning and engagement at Canada’s National Arts Centre is made possible through the support of many generous individuals and organizations from across the country. Arts Alive is generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation, the Government of Nunavut, Canadian North, Calm Air, The River Philip Foundation, The Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation, and The Thomas Sill Foundation. Thank you also to Grant and Alice Burton, Canada Life, A Donor-Advised Fund at the Community Foundation of Ottawa, Friends of the NAC Orchestra, Donors to the NAC Foundation's Future Fund, The Janice and Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence, and the donors and sponsors of the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust, the primary resource for youth and education funding at the National Arts Centre.

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