Education & Outreach
Education and Outreach is a large part of the NSO’s vision. The Education and Outreach program is a diverse, comprehensive program which brings NSO musicians into schools and community programs, in person and virtually, as well as bringing schools and community groups to concerts and other activities with the NSO. As part of the education piece, the NSO creates learning materials for educators to use. All of our learning materials, including our extensive library of NSO arrangements, listening activities, composition unit/lesson plans, composer posters, PowerPoint presentations, activity sheets, videos, audio, accompaniment recordings, and curriculum outcome documents are available for free! Materials are matched to NL Department of Education Music Curriculum outcomes.
Our partners:
Upcoming Fine Arts Fridays Virtual Sessions
- Friday, March 21, 2025 – Engage Musically and Personally with the NSO and Guest Artist: Isabella D’Éloize Perron Target Audience – 4-12
- Friday May 9, 2025 – Experience Symphonic Music for Youth with the NSO! Target Audience – K-12 NOTE: This session will be live-streamed and presented to an in-person school audience.
- Friday, May 30, 2025 – Explore the Music of Favourite Cartoons and Movies with the NSO! – Tune Toons!! Target Audience – K-12
Past Fine Arts Fridays Sessions
Recordings of past sessions can be accessed by signing into the Department of Education’s Professional Learning site, www.k12pl.nl.ca. Fine Arts Friday’s recordings are managed and housed by the Department of Education. Any inquiries regarding recordings can be directed to marydinn@gov.nl.ca.
- Experience Harmony in Ulliasuk: The Story of Martha Joshua (an Inuit woman from Labrador) with the NSO! (24/25)
- The NSO and Newman Sound Men’s Choir… Sharing Songs and Singing Together! (24/25)
- Come Along to NSO’s Hallowe’en Spooktacular Joined by Well-Known Witches of Disney and Broadway! (24/25)
- Come to the Circus with the NSO with St. John’s International CircusFest (23/24)
- Snap! Snap! – Wednesday Addams & Friends with the NSO with Best Kind Productions (23/24)
- Engage Artistically, Musically and Personally with Mark Fewer (23/24)
- Celebrate Women in Music with the NSO – Les Femmes (23/24)
- Experience and Make Joyful Music with the NSO – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – Ode to Joy (23/24)
- Experience Sci-Fi Music – The Final Frontier (23/24)
- Soar Through the Planets with the NSO, Calos Youth Orchestra and Chorus! (22/23)
- NSO Hallowe’en Spooktacular: Who Ya Gonna Call with Best Kind Productions! (22/23)
- Engage Personally and Musically with NSO and guest artist pianist 10-year-old Ryan Huang! (22/23)
- Pass the Baton….a journey in symphonic conducting! (22/23)
- Explore the Appalachians – Experience Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring with the NSO and Kittiwake Dance Theatre! (22/23)
- Sing with the NSO – Join the NSO and three local school choirs to sing some of your favourites songs including Sound of Music Medley and Maroon 5’s Memories! (22/23)
- NSO Hallowe’en Spooktacular: Henry Hiccup and the Forbidden Orchestra with Best Kind Productions! (21/22)
- Paint Music with the NSO and Visual Artists Keli-Ann Pye-Beshara and Nelson White! (21/22)
- Take A Musical Journey with NSO’s Atlantic String Quartet! (21/22)
- Behind the Scenes with the NSO! (21/22)
The Fine Arts Fridays (FAF) Educational Series is an initiative of NL Department of Education that engages community arts organizations to bring curriculum-based arts and cultural learning experiences and/or products to the provincial K-12 public school demographic. FAF is intended to engage learners, both students and teachers, with digital products and/or in interactive live streamed sessions, as facilitated by professional artists, that explore the province’s arts and culture. The program is supported under the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Cultural Connections: A Provincial K-12 Arts and Cultural Strategy.
