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<\/a>\u201cSeeing the kids create a song in five days is an amazing process\u201d says Bulosan. \u201cIt was interesting to see the group of kids I was working with in Vancouver develop over the course of the week as they were working on their song. And you\u2019re really there to just provide an adult presence; all of the creativity and development of the song comes from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
A former music director and women\u2019s radio collective coordinator at UVic\u2019s CFUV Radio, Bulosan\u2019s background is in vocal work, having been a choir member during her early schooling and more recently a member of a Victoria feminist punk rock choir and other local choir projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe documentary film is how I first heard about these type of camps and it really inspired me to do a camp here in town,\u201d says Bulosan. \u201cWe\u2019re just looking to get girls more interested in playing music, or even just being interested in the technical side of things, like mixing sound or working their own music gear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Billed as a \u201cfeminist-based camp,\u201d Girls Rock Victoria is a week-long program featuring female instructors and workshop facilitators. During the camp, girls aged 8 to 18 will be given instruction on songwriting, instrument care, and technical knowledge, as well as awareness of how women are portrayed in music industry and in mainstream culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the question is \u2018Why a girls rock camp?\u2019\u201d says Bulosan, \u201cand it\u2019s because it gives girls the opportunity to play music without having to worry about boys being around, and also seeing women mentor them in playing instruments and teaching them. Because when you look at the music industry, it\u2019s pretty top-heavy with guys, and whenever there are women musicians or an all-woman band, it\u2019s always noted, but there are so many bands out there that are all-guys, and that\u2019s never really an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once the girls have had a chance to learn what being in a band and writing a song is all about, they will then perform their songs at a special concert in front of a live audience at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.<\/p>\n
And when they walk out of rock camp, Bulosan hopes the girls will have newfound confidence in playing music and in themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that they have a really good time and come away realizing that they\u2019re capable of a lot more than they thought they were,\u201d she says. \u201cI know a lot of them will be nervous going in, but if you give those girls the opportunities and they\u2019ll be able to do some amazing stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
A special screening of the documentary film Girls Rock!<\/em> takes place on July 3 at 7 pm at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss St.). Admission is free or by donation and seating is limited.<\/p>\n Registration for the camp is still open and spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Go to www.girlsrockvictoria.ca<\/a> or email info@grcvi.ca<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Geraldine Bulosan saw a documentary film called Girls Rock!, about a camp in Portland that teaches young girls how to form a band and write a song together, she knew she wanted to do a similar camp in Victoria. After communicating with the international Girls Rock Camp Alliance and volunteering for a camp in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22952,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions\/22952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}