Canterbury

Welcome to MENZA Canterbury – Music Education Canterbury – MEC

Music Education Canterbury meet once a term and exchange emails, phone calls, and can be seen meeting over coffee or at workshops in between.

We run Strum Strike and Blow, a festival for ukuleles, marimbas and recorders, which sees 1,200 students perform together in the Horncastle Arena with the support of the Christchurch Civic Music Council. This has three workshops leading up to it.

We run workshops through out the year for Music Educators and have worked in with and support the other local music education providers including IRMT, ARA, CSM, the Muse, CWSMTA, Musical Parenting and the University of Canterbury.

In 2019 our focus is running the MENZA national conference in Christchurch in October.

The MEC exec are:

• Judith Bell – co-chair
• Kate Husband – co-chair
• Celia Stewart – past president
• Emma Cullen – treasurer
• Julie Wylie – Secretary
• Annie Rodgers
• Heather Libeau-Dow
• Heather Gladstone
• Helen Powell – administrator
• Nanako Sato – CWSMTA representative
• Maree Parr

Co-opted representatives:

• Katherine Jones – IRMT representative
• Nick Hollamby – ARA Music Arts representative
• Glenda Keam – UC Music representative
• Nikki Berry – The Muse
• Linda Webb – INA rep