Alice’s Adventures in an Arts Career

As I promised, here are the details about the Music for a Cure concert coming up on March 7th.

Music for a Cure is an annual charity concert.  Now in their 5th year, they have raised over $16,000  with concerts now in London, Barrie and Ottawa . Funds have benefited the Royal Victoria Hospital/ Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre in Barrie and  the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.  This year’s concert will be going towards the Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario.

Date: Saturday, March 7^th, 2009.

Time: 2:00 pm- 5:00 pm

Location: Colborne St. United Church

Address: 711 Colborne St.

TICKETS: are  $10/Students and $15/Adults and are available by calling (519) 902-5159 or emailing music4acure@gmail.com

Tickets will also be available at the door.

As I said before, Vox Humana will be performing a set at this concert and we’re looking forward to it as a good chance to prepare for our upcoming spring concert in April and as an opportunity to increase our visibility within the London choral and music scene.

So come, enjoy some great music and contribute to a worthwhile cause.

I sometimes wonder how social networking, organizing and advertising was done before the invention of Facebook.  Nearly every gig or event I have organized or been apart of has depended heavily on Facebook to “get the word out”.  For arts organizing, it is so useful.  Through Facebook, I have a instant catalog of people interested in the same things I am, and they in turn have more people that are potentially also interested.  With Facebook, we are all linked.  Spreading the word about a gig or an idea or an event can almost be instantaneous and can grow exponentially as each person in turn invites or adds more people.

For example, I doubt our Vox Humana choir would have got off the ground without Facebook.  I think we had more people  learn about our choir and auditions through our Facebook invite than we did through our posters and person-to-person promotion.

Similarly, everyone in my Music Faculty advertises their studio recitals, performance recitals, choir concerts, ensemble concerts and masterclasses through Facebook.  Sure we all put posters up around the faculty, but for the most part they only served to remind us to check our Facebook for an invite.

As much as I resisted joining at first, I’ve come to realize how useful Facebook is for young artists.  Facebook is the social network of our generation, and it would be ludicrous to ignore its power.