Free Workshop 2025

We are offering a free workshop led by experienced clinicians for young musicians aged 12-20, that are interested in developing their composition, and improvisational skills. The course runs for 4 days beginning Monday June 30th, 2025.

Details:

Dates: (There is no class on Canada Day July 1st, 2025)

Day 1: Monday, June 30th, 2025

Day 2: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025

Day 3: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025

Day 4: Friday, July 4th, 2025

Time: 9:00am-2:00p

Venue: The Clarence Hale Room

St James Anglican Church

10 Union St

Kingston ON

(crn of Barrie St and Union St near Queens campus)

Description:

MusicWorks is a dynamic program designed to help youth participants unlock their musical potential through immersive, collaborative learning.

As passionate coaches, we guide participants through immersive, hands-on sessions where they learn by doing—experimenting, creating, and performing music with their peers in a collaborative space. Ditching the rigidity of traditional music education, MusicWorks champions curiosity, creative freedom, and real-world learning that connects with how young people think and grow today.

The Goal: Bringing Music to Life.

Through MusicWorks, students strengthen their artistic voice and deepen their connection to music. Whether composing, collaborating, or performing, they grow in confidence, creativity, and musical fluency.

MusicWorks in Community aligns naturally with experiential learning, offering a flexible, experience-based approach that encourages curiosity, self-expression, and lifelong learning.

This course is aimed for students or youth members up to age 20 at any level of experience on any instrument and is free.

To register: contact kingstonmusicians@gmail.com by Saturday 28th June 2025 for the Registration Form or call the office directly: 613 542-3732 or 613 484-3554

Funding opportunities

Music Performance Trust Funds

To apply for funding fill in the google application form: https://forms.gle/RYh8Qt8tb3rqhVTS9

All streamed concerts are funded at 100%. If you are streaming a concert, contact us to see if it is eligible for funding from the Music Performance Trust Fund. The fund pays musicians and a tech at scale and including pension. For more details on scale visit the members area. Password is sent out in the newsletters or can be requested by members from the secretary.

UPM 2025 Activities

Jazz Appreciation Month:

April 2025.

Speak to your union rep or office about performance opportunities in Gananoque, Kingston, and Peterborough.

Streaming Concerts:

Visit our Facebook page on current information regarding streamed concerts

https://www.facebook.com/kingstonmusicians

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INFORMATION SESSIONS

1.SPECIAL PAYMENTS RECORDING FUND- Allistair Elliot

2. MUSICIANS PENSION FUND OF CANADA- Julia Train

3. CROSSING THE BORDER- Liana White

4. 10 MORE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE UNION- Alan Willaert