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Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to welcome I Dewa Made Suprata as an Artist-in-Residence at the Music Department at the University of Waterloo. With specialties in Balinese gamelan music and composition, Dewa’s residency will increase the University of Waterloo’s reputation as a centre for Indonesian music in Southern Ontario, and strengthen the school’s global music program.

Sound continues to fill the halls over the spring term in the University of Waterloo’s Department of Music, housed at Conrad Grebel University College. This summer, there were several courses and numerous studio lessons taught, along with many ensemble rehearsals and concerts. The end of August is also a time when Grebel hosts Ontario Mennonite Music Camp which also brings energy and creativity to the halls of Grebel.

Plans are underway at Conrad Grebel University College to host a Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival on June 9-12, 2016.  In addition to academic papers, workshops, and networking opportunities, the event is intended to be a festival that will include art, drama, and music on the campus of this Canadian Mennonite College.

More than twenty choristers with ties, past and present, to Conrad Grebel University College’s Music program joined a cast of nearly 1000 for the Luminato Festival’s epic production of R. Murray Schafer’s Apocalypsis at Toronto’s Sony Centre on June 26-28.  

Thanks to a partnership with Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Global Peace Centre Canada (GPCC), and the Women’s Executive Network (WXN), Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to offer a $10,000 scholarship to a female Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPACS) student.

This spring, Waterloo Region elementary school students will be discovering something normal and radical all at once: peace and justice. Peace Camp, a peace education organization at Conrad Grebel University College, will facilitate peace-building and conflict resolution workshops with elementary school students for the third consecutive year. School participation numbers have increased each year, and in May and June alone, 121 classrooms will participate in Peace Camp workshops.

Musicians in Waterloo Region have joined together to raise funds for earthquake victims in Nepal.

Under Grebel prof Mark Vuorinen's baton, the Grand Philharmonic Choir, together with many community partners (including Grebel students,) is organizing a free concert Sunday May 24th, 4 p.m. at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 49 Queen St. N., Kitchener.

At the concert, audience members will be invited to donate to Mennonite Central Committee's Nepal earthquake relief fund. The federal government will match any donations made at the concert.

The Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors is pleased to announce the hiring of Maisie Sum as Assistant Professor of Music, in a tenure track position commencing July 1, 2015.