The Modal Voice: Facilitating improvisation with secondary students using modes
Amber Thomas 
This session will focus on using Australian Popular Music in the classroom. Participants can use their voices, their own instruments, or tuned/untuned percssion, and will participate in activities which extend their understanding of metre and pitch (specifically modal harmony). Pieces are carefully selected to utilise different modal patterns, and demonstrate changing metre. These pieces are then also linked to recent Australian Art Music repertoire.

Tell it like it is: travelling musically with stories
Bethany Rowe 
Storytelling is an age old tradition that lets us pass on information, keeps us captured in the journey and allows imaginations to run wild. Experience a musical adventure down the road, to Salzburg and back.

Elemental Composition
Christoph Maubach 
Composing with children: From playing with movement, speech and improvisation.

Singing Games for Young Children
Heather McLaughlin
Using traditional children's games from the songbook "Catch a Song", this session will involve addition of classroom instruments to extend well-known and less well-known singing games such as "Lucy Locket" and "Little Mouse be Careful".

Reach for the Spheres: Advanced recorder and Alto recorder
Marcelline Moody 
This workshop develops soprano recorder range and skills and includes use of alto and tenor recorders. We will explore mixed metre, ensemble playing, improvisation, and different articulations.  Bring alto and tenor as well as soprano. Be prepared to move.

Cirque du The Swan
Robyn Windham
The world renowned, Cirque du Soleil, recently turned 25 years old. To celebrate, a unit of work was taught from Reception through to Year 7 that exposed the students to their history, their performances. From there each class created their own performance which the whole school viewed at our own school Cirque du performance. Participants will be participate in this process, and using boomwhackers, ribbons, pom poms, hoops and fit ball, will create their own Cirque du "The Swan" performance.
 

Rock on Orff
Gabrielle Ryan
In this session Gabrielle will use some of the classic contemporary repertoire in developing Orff-style performance pieces. No prior knowledge or instrumental expertise is required for the session.

Developing connections the Orff Schulwerk Way between music and literacy for Indigenous children
Jackie Ewers
What comes before reading?
In this practical session participants will explore musical and literary ideas developed with Indigenous Students in the Kimberely. This work is the culmination of a project combining a collaboration of Musica Viva and the Thyne Reid Foundation.

 
Singing and Playing in the Schulwerk
Julie Scott
If the Orff Schulwerk media are best known as 'singing, saying, moving, and playing', why do many people seem to think of this approach as 'the one with the instruments'? In this hands-on workshop, we will explore song settings of the Schulwerk.

 
Finding the Swan's Voice in Orff Percussion
Stephen Hutton
This is an opportunity to play through some new music for Orff percussion instruments, suitable for more advanced students, from the recently published teaching resource 'Jumpin' Round', and how the challenge of playing gracefully and reflectively (swan-like) was approached in this book. The ability to read music notation is needed to fully participate in this workshop.

 
Orff-ulele
Vanessa Ransley
Integrating the ukulele into an Orff music program. CD player with ipod connectivity, large/advanced instruments, ukuleles.

Take Orff with improvisation
Susie Davies-Splitter
Sing, move, play, scat, and jam whilst promoting self expression, joy, confidence and well being through musical improvisation.