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		<title>Tonight (25/8) superb doco &#8211; The Music Instinct: Science &amp; Song</title>
		<link>http://www.fourthpillar.biz/2010/08/26/tonight-258-superb-doco-the-music-instinct-science-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this fantastic show on PBS back in June 09 in Canada and have been waiting since for it to reach our airwaves. Hosted by Daniel Levitin and Bobbie McFerrin, it&#8217;s been split into two parts for Oz showing, the first part at 9.35 tonight on ABC1
I can&#8217;t recommend it too highly &#8211; it pulls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quebecoise initiative goes national</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 05:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past thirteen years, Quebec has had an annual ‘Journées de la culture’ (3 day) event designed to raise ‘public participation and engagement’ in culture-making.  It appears to have been enormously successful, if measured by the numbers of people who engage on the day.
Finally, after a feasibility study confirmed the obvious (commissioned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the children play</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 27/5/10, Kate Ellis, the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Child Care, announced that the Commonwealth Government is developing the country&#8217;s first Outside School Hours Care Learning Framework.
I can find no details about what the content of this Framework will be, beyond the report in The Australian on 28/5 that ‘children in before- and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four new books worth looking at</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 06:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonhawkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently come across four books that look as if they will be well worth a solid examination by those involved in grassroots cultural action/policy making (those that have time to read, that is).  I haven’t had the chance to get my hands directly on any of them, but given what I know about many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has probably never been a liberation struggle that has not had a musical backing track.  And in many cases this has been superbly documented – for example, Rhythm of Resistance – Beat of the Heart and Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (South Africa) and The Singing Revolution (Estonia).  The function of music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food glorious food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ways that a group gather, prepare and consume food offer unique insights into their values, that is, their culture.
Not surprisingly, there are strong connections between their arts and their attitudes to food.  Many anthropologists believe that the preparation for and celebration of the hunt formed the basis for early human music and dance, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They do it more in the bush</title>
		<link>http://www.fourthpillar.biz/2010/03/26/they-do-it-more-in-the-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonhawkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have confirmed that yet another piece of common observation is really so.  Country folk sing and dance together more than city folk.
And along with this revelation, comes another reminder of the definitional hoops we are constantly being expected to jump through. This time, it&#8217;s the faintly dismissive phrase &#8216;informal arts&#8217;, which, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just do it</title>
		<link>http://www.fourthpillar.biz/2010/03/18/just-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 3 edition of Arts Watch pointed me to the recent discovery by the LA Times that making music has more profound effects than listening to it. Given that we know that babies aren&#8217;t made by watching blue movies, it is perhaps surprising that this revelation is deemed newsworthy.
I guess the not inconsiderable investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need a new language?</title>
		<link>http://www.fourthpillar.biz/2010/03/18/do-we-need-a-new-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonhawkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Ivey, U.S. author and advocate for matters creative has been struggling for years to make a new language for arts policy.
Douglas McLennan, the editor of Arts Journal, recently hosted a week-long conversation dissecting Ivey&#8217;s concept, Expressive Life.
Douglas begins by asking, &#8216;are the terms &#8220;Art&#8221; and &#8220;Culture&#8221; tough enough to frame a public policy carve-out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Labor shows its true colours</title>
		<link>http://www.fourthpillar.biz/2010/03/18/nsw-labor-shows-its-true-colours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonhawkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ccdnsw shut up shop last week after failing to renegotiate continued financial support from the NSW state government.
In justifying the decision, NSW Arts Minister Virginia Judge, is quoted in the Sun-Herald as saying:  ‘ccdnsw is an advisory body.  It does not create or program any arts events.  [That is, it doesn’t offer me enough photo [...]]]></description>
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