Building Social Equity through Arts Education

Access to arts education is not equal in Australia and especially in Victoria.

Research tells us that all children experience benefits from music education but those from low socioeconomic backgrounds benefit the most. More than Music supports parents to improve their capacity to educate their babies, toddlers and preschoolers at home, it supports schools and teachers to deliver effective singing programs in the early years classrooms and it provides a pathway to musical excellence for children who show high musical potential where there is no access to extracurricular programs in their suburbs, even if their families could afford to pay for them.

 
 

Current programs include:

  • First Steps in Music

  • First Steps in Nature

  • Instrumental Music for Young Singers scholarship program

  • little bluebirds

  • NORTH Children’s Choir

  • PlayLinks

  • SingingLinks

  • Young Piano Accompanist scholarship

“While recovering from birth the program gave a fun and appropriate way for me to move my own body and gain back some of the strength nexeded to be an active parent to a newborn and toddler and our family has made multiple connections through the program. I have personally always had a love of the creative arts and music and seeing this develop in my children is also an utter joy!”

Bluebird Foundation Inc. is endorsed as a Public Benevolent Institution and is a Deductible Gift Recipient. Donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible.