Philosophy
“Musical training impacts a set of processes in the brain that are related to many other activities, from intelligence and reading to the ability to focus and do well in school” . Dr. Sylvain Moreno, Lead Brain Fitness Scientist, Rotman Research Institute
While the other arts rely on an established relationship between words or images and everyday life – books, theatre, film, sculpture, painting. all involve words that we use to communicate or recognizable colours and forms – music is different. Music is the international language that transcends all social or cultural barriers. It has an ability to communicate and include. Because music is so ‘user-friendly’, musical ideas have been exchanged around the world for millennium.
“Reconciliation in Action”
Learning and playing music together fosters opportunities for both indigenous and non-indigenous children to build respectful, lasting relationships with one another.
Promoting healing and wellness through the “medicine of music” SATS programs nurture cross cultural relationships and supports the Truth and Reconciliation Report’s 94 Calls to Action.
Student Trainer Andrea Finney, from Sioux Lookout, works with students at the Parry Sound Fiddle School, 2006.