Guest Lecture: How Music Can Help

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Monday, October 16th, 2017
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Ethnomusicologist Klisala Harrison is Academy of Finland Research Scholar at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interest is how music may be used to address concrete social problems.

In this special lecture-presentation titled “How Music Can Help: Human Rights Deficits and Early Deaths in Urban Poverty,” Klisala will look at how popular and Indigenous musics are used in Canadian efforts to address human rights deficits occurring in poverty, which academics and activists link to premature deaths, as well as how music can benefit urban poor in life-affirming ways. This lecture is presented by the University of Victoria Orion Series in Fine Arts.