Welcome to the Curious Collaborative Creativity project for musical learning and sharing!
  • Transforming traditional musical groups into innovative, inclusive, democratic communities. 
  • Making music learning and music-making exciting and meaningful for life-long enjoyment and healing.
  • Infusing peace-building into participatory "musiking" experiences. 
If we want kids to love music we have to rethink a lot of what we do around the way things are taught in general.  Give kids more choices about what they’re doing.  Stop offering rewards for success which implicitly devalue whatever you have to do to get the reward and above all stop turning it into a contest. 
~Aflie Kohn

     News:

  • Participatory-community Music-making is here!  Learn more at Pierrepont Players. Next event: Winter Solstice Campfire Jam, December 21st from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.  Email for info.
  • Congratulations to Ryan Diefenderfer from Phoenix, Arizona for his nomination for the 2024 Music Educator Grammy Award. He has been utilizing our CCC approach in his ensembles at Paradise Valley High School.
  • Join us on Facebook for more ideas for collaboration with other musicians and teachers!
Caron Collins, is Professor Emerita at The Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.  With 40 years of teaching experience in K-12 and higher education, she continues to teach her online graduate music course, "Peace Building through Music Education".  Dr. Collins earned her Ph.D. in music from The Ohio State University, the Master in the Art of Teaching from Marygrove College, and her Bachelor of Music Education (instrumental music, flute major) from Indiana University. She has published articles and/or presented clinics for state and national music organizations. Her first book, Messengers of Music: The Legacy of Julia E. Crane, Information Age Publishing (2011), shares music teacher stories matched with the philosophy of Julia Crane.  She co-authored her Curious Collaborative Creativity e-book (2017),  with Dr. Danni Gilbert, as a helpful resource for all music teachers. She lives in the northern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains with her husband, Philip, and enjoys nature and improvising on Native American Style flutes and percussion with the Pierrepont Players.
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