The 8th SIMM-posium (Social Impact of Music Making)

Authors

Catherine Threlfall University of Melbourne, Australia https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7058-3152

Social Impact of Music Making 8th SIMM-posium, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University 20-22 November 2023, Australia

Catherine Threlfall, University of Melbourne, Australia

Catherine Threlfall is an experienced music therapist, community music leader, teacher, and researcher passionate about making participatory music making accessible to communities in regional Australia. Catherine is deeply committed to health equity and the social impact of participatory artmaking, the subject of her current PhD research. Since 1993 she has worked in community, education, special education, post-school options, community health, aged care, research and tertiary settings as a community music leader, teacher, therapist, advisor, practitioner scholar, mentor, writer, and presenter. Catherine’s career has taken her from Gippsland to the Yarra Ranges, Melbourne, Darwin, rural Northern Territoty and to the Mallee. Catherine is a change leader, driving the growth of community music, music therapy, and participatory artmaking in the Mallee’s regional centres and remote towns, including intergenerational programs, inclusive community music groups, and outreach music therapy with underreached children, young people and families in partnership with place-based change organisation Hands Up Mallee. [catherine@sunraysiaartsandlearning.com.au]