DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: An activity which is a gift or service, of benefit to the community at large, above and beyond personal benefit
PURPOSE: To encourage students to take their music out into the community.
ELIGIBILITY: Students of any age or level of music study, studying with a BC Registered Music Teacher or STA member.
BENEFITS TO THE STUDENT AND THE COMMUNITY:
- To give students recognition for sharing their music and encouraging a practical use for their musical education.
- To take students out of the private music studio and their home and into the musical community.
- To give students a greater awareness of how their music can be used throughout their lives.
- To give a student an additional musical goal to strive for.
VOLUNTEERING CRITERIA:
- Since recitals put on by one’s own teacher are deemed to be part of musical education they are not considered community service.
- Performances open to the public should be for the primary audience of the public rather than for the benefit of the performer, teacher or branch.
- When assisting or playing at a concert or church service, the entire duration of the concert or service can be counted.
- If one hour or more of travel time is involved to get to an event, the travel time may be included
- Rehearsal time for the community service concert/event as well as performance time can be counted.
- NO tangible recompense - including school credit, payment or gift card - can be received for the volunteer activity.
VOLUNTEERING SUGGESTIONS:
Musical volunteering ideas might include:
- Playing music at care homes, hospitals, or to shut-ins.
- Taking a senior citizen to a concert.
- Helping with musical programs in churches.
- Helping with extracurricular music programs at schools.
- Assisting a music therapist.
- As an unpaid piano accompanist for singers, instrumentalists or dancers.
- Helping with various tasks at a music festival or exam venue.
- Assisting at concerts with creating or distributing programs, staging, lighting, setting out chairs etc.
- Playing as a guest performance at an event sponsored by someone other than their own teacher.
- BRONZE CERTIFICATE: requires 10 hours
- SILVER CERTIFICATE: 10 hours from Bronze Certificate plus 25 hours =35 hours
- GOLD CERTIFICATE: 35 hours from Silver Certificate plus 25 hours = 60 hours
- Please count time in quarter hours (.25, .5, .75) rather than in minutes.
- The Musical Community Service Awards are cumulative and do not have a time limit. Hours can be accumulated over several years if so desired.
- A special thank you to the Victoria Branch for presenting this submission to the Provincial Council.
- Individual teachers will be responsible for circulating the Record Sheets to students and forwarding the completed forms to the address below.
- Click HERE for the Music Community Service Award PDF and the form will load up in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format.
You may print the form from this page and mail/email to: BCRMTA Registrar, PO Box 11060 Abbotsford RPO McCallum, BC V2S 0B4 registrar@bcrmta.bc.ca
Certificates are issued twice a year following the BC Council meeting. Deadlines for submission are: OCTOBER 1 and MAY 1