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.

The MEC exec are:

• Judith Bell – co-chair
• Kate Husband – co-chair
• Celia Stewart – past president
• Emma Cullen – treasurer
• Julie Wylie – Secretary
• Heather Libeau-Dow
• Heather Gladstone
• Nanako Sato – CWSMTA representative
• Roger Hamilton

Co-opted representatives:

• Katherine Jones – IRMT representative
• Andrew Snell – ARA Music Arts representative
• Francis Yapp – UC Music representative
• Nikki Berry – The Muse
• Linda Webb – INA rep

Administrator – Helen Powell

NB The 2021 AGM is on March 20th at 1:30pm at Chisnallwood Intermediate School following the Makaira Waugh workshops. MEC AGM attendance form

MEC Constitution (2016)