Purga Music Museum Outreach 2021

Purga Music Museum was established in 2003 as a meeting place for people interested in music-making in the local area (Ipswich and surrounds). The original site began in 2003 at the Purga Community Cultural Centre at 68 Purga School Road, beside the Purga United Church and the old Purga State School. The collection includes information about local music history, including musical pioneers of the region: Harold Blair, Meta Maclean. Information about Purga History is available online at https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/purga-history-150-years-since-european-settlement

Some resources have been digitised for wider circulation and sharing with schools and cultural organisations.Volunteers are needed for further digitisation and recording of music stories. The Purga Music Story and Harold Blair (2005), is a children's story which was told by Purga Elders and descendants, and local people. Read more at Purga Music Story on Facebook, or Ipswich Library Historical Collection.

Digital Technologies
Read more about 'The impact of new technologies on musical learning of Indigenous Australian Children' (Kirkwood & Miller, 2014).

Music Museum Outreach

Musical activities are arranged through various funding sources. Locations are chosen according to the participant's goals. Read more: This article describes local community-based music museum outreach: Doing, being and becoming more active through playing part in community-based museum scenarios

Natural Environments for Listening and Creating Music Stories

Locations for Listening, Photography, Bush Walking, Observing and Recording Natural Soundscapes in the local area, include: Purga Nature Reserve, and Goolman Conservation Estate

CREATING MUSIC STORIES

'Creating Music Stories' was developed by Sandra Kirkwood for Gunawirra Services, Redfern, Sydney (2012). The presentations below, were used with Indigenous and other Australian children in 43 preschools in New South Wales.

Musical Storytelling: 

Dancing   https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/dancing-creating-music-stories

Shake a leg and stomp a footDANCING – CREATING MUSIC STORIES MUSIC HEALTH AUSTR...

Listening   https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/listening-creating-music-stories

LISTENING – CREATING MUSIC STORIES MUSIC HEALTH AUSTRALIA

Playing Musical Instruments   https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/playing-musical-instruments-creating-music-stories

 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS:CREATING MUSIC STORIESSandra Kirkwood Photograph by Babasteve ...

Working Together  https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/working-together-creating-music-stories-about-places

Sandra KirkwoodMUSIC HEALTHAUSTRALIA

Voices    https://www.slideshare.net/musichealthaustralia/music-tutorial-2 

VOICES – CREATING MUSIC STORIES Sandra Kirkwood MUSIC HEALTH AUSTRALIA

Music Tuition and Resources

For further information, please contact:

Sandra Kirkwood mobile: 0488 624 362; Email: kirkwood13@bigpond.com

Bio: Sandra Kirkwood

Sandra Kirkwood is a Consultant Occupational Therapist currently employed in primary healthcare and child health, in Ipswich, Queensland. Sandra founded Music Health Australia, and continues to support the growth and development of community music in South-East Queensland. She is a published author and provides consultancy and professional development. Sandra is experienced in project management with a focus on equity and cultural diversity. Qualifications include: Bachelor of Occupational Therapy; Bachelor of Music; Master of Philosophy; and Graduate Certificate Education (Digital Learning and Leadership).

References

Kirkwood, Sandra.  Doing, Being, Becoming more active through Playing Part in Community Based Museum Scenarios.
https://www.academia.edu/915929/Doing_being_and_becoming_more_active_through_playing_part_in_community_based_museum_scenarios

Kirkwood, Sandra (2008) Ethnomusicking: Valued Music Occupation or Audacious Antics in the Purga Music Museum. Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/1491407/ETHNOMUSICKING_A_VALUED_MUSIC_OCCUPATION_OR_AUDACIOUS_ANTICS_IN_THE_PURGA_MUSIC_MUSEUM

Kirkwood, Sandra (2012) Creating Music Stories -- presentations available on Slideshare.net

Kirkwood, Sandra & Miller, Adrian (2014) The impact of new technologies on musical learning of Indigenous Australian children. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 39 (1), pp. 94-105. Retrieved from https://eprints.qut.edu.au/104791/

 



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