FCMF National Music Festival Alumni Outreach and Impact Collection

The Federation of Canadian Music Festivals (FCMF) seeks to reconnect with alumni of the National Music Festival to gather updates on their current endeavors and achievements. The goal is to collect personal stories, photos, and impact statements that highlight how the festival has influenced their lives and careers. This project aims to create a comprehensive alumni database that will serve as a valuable resource for future promotional materials and community engagement. By leveraging classroom knowledge in communication, data collection, and digital archiving, learners will gain practical experience in alumni relations and project management. The project will involve reaching out to alumni through various channels, conducting interviews, and compiling the collected information into a structured format. Key tasks include: - Identifying and contacting National Music Festival alumni. - Conducting interviews to gather updates, photos, and impact statements. - Organizing and archiving the collected data for easy access and future use. - Using FCMF social media platforms to promote alumni and their projects. - Creating a summary report that highlights key findings and alumni stories.

2024 FCMF National Music Festival

We would like 1-4 students to assist with marketing and administrative tasks to host the annual National Music Festival for youth music students. The National Music Festival offers 5 streams of programming - the Emerging Artist Stream for advanced-level students, the Developing Artist Stream for intermediate-level students, the Non-Competitive Education Stream for junior-level participants, the Composition Stream for youth composers at all levels,, and the Ensemble Stream for chamber ensembles, choirs, and orchestras. Tasks include creating content for social media posts to promote the virtual, processing registrations, hosting virtual adjudication workshop with professional musicians, and preparing videos of winning performances.   We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization.

Administration, Marketing and Communications

We would like 1-4 students to assist with administrative, marketing and communication tasks to host festivals for youth music students. Tasks include creating content for social media posts to promote the events, process registrations, and reconnect with alumni of the festival to gather updates on their current endeavors and achievements. The goal is to collect personal stories, photos, and impact statements that highlight how the festival has influenced their lives and careers. This project aims to create a comprehensive alumni database that will serve as a valuable resource for future promotional materials and community engagement. By leveraging classroom knowledge in communication, data collection, and digital archiving, learners will gain practical experience in alumni relations and project management. This part of the project will involve reaching out to alumni through various channels, conducting interviews, and compiling the collected information into a structured format.

Marketing - Video Creation and Website Updates

We would like a bilingual [French-English] student to assist with creating content and a second student with technical skills to create animated videos for use on social media posts that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector that raises awareness of FCMF and the National Music Festival; fostering connections with alumni, partner connections and donors to enhance fundraising efforts. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. You will be working on creating animated videos to promote our organization, and member festivals, on social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools, communicating with alumni, partners, and donors. The students would also work on updating our English and French websites for our new year of programming.