This music festival taps into secret talent “living behind suburban doors”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Richard Gill AO, Australia’s most iconic music educator, believed that all of us have the potential […]
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This family is composing kids’ tunes with real-world messages that matter
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) What are children’s songs normally about? Some kid called Mary who had a little lamb? Some […]
Moorambilla Voices brings music to children of “this magnificent country”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We all know that kids in regional Australia do not have access to the same musical […]
8 ways music affects our emotions
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) In this companion piece to her live review of Music and Mental Health at Vivid, Jessie […]
LIVE REVIEW // Jessie Wang learns about music and mental health
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Music and Mental HealthVivid FestivalMuseum of Contemporary Art, 8 June As a musician who’s also passionate […]
Jenna Pratt: Mental health sounds like…
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Sydney-based musician and charity worker Jessie Wang is a mental health advocate and studies psychology at […]
How I discovered the Alexander Technique (and why you should, too)
BY CHLOE CHUNG AS TOLD TO JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We recently published an interview with Alexander Technique teacher-trainee Chloe Chung, […]
Sarah-Grace Williams is saving The Metropolitan Orchestra’s concert series
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) When you hear the word ‘charity’, what kind of image is conjured up? Chances are, you […]
Lyn Williams AM talks us through the Gondwana World Choral Festival
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) There are some incredible people in the Australian music industry who make a difference by doing […]
Tenzin Choegyal: “Music is life, no matter where I am”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We’re lucky we live in a country that boasts itself as being one of the most […]