Finding Music

Obviously, much of the music we have suggested may not be in your music collection! Replace music for a specific activity, such as dance music for a movement exercise, with anything you already own and like. Let your imagination flow and think of music you can listen to and the purposes it might serve.

Some recordings may be available through your local library. You can also listen to selections or find new materials on the internet.

• Go to Google: http://www.google.ca
• Type in the title and artist, or a phrase from the song. For example: Beatles + "Hey Jude" or "Take a sad song and make it better." (The quotation marks are important. They indicate that words you've typed are a phrase and that the program should look for them all together in that order.) Google will then return results. In some cases, you may find only lyrics.
• To search for a sound recording, try: Beatles + "Hey Jude" + sound file.

Exploring Learning Visual Art: Observing and Creating

We have provided reading lists on critical materials, fiction and biography. It is harder to identify a "looking list" of visual materials! We do want to invite you to explore looking at art and graphics, as well as creating visuals yourself as another way of exploring the issues of violence and learning and experimenting with different ways of knowing.

A Note on Visual Arts

Even if you don't think of yourself as artistic, try some of the visual exercises. Try to focus less on the product that you are creating and more on the process and how your thoughts or feelings change as you work.