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VERY grateful to for support by Music BC, Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia to attend the CAPACOA conference that took place at the National Arts Centre. Here are two photos Gregory and Justine took there! We made great contacts at the conference and honestly it was so good!

Gregory Kozak and I are thrilled to join the Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico next week (Feb 15–20, 2026) as part of the Creative Industries delegation.

It's an exciting opportunity for Scrap Arts Music — a Victoria-based performing arts company with bold ambitions to expand into the Mexican touring market — to connect, network, and build bridges in this vibrant country.

Canada-Mexico trade is booming, with nearly $56 billion in two-way merchandise in 2024 and strong growth continuing — a perfect backdrop for creative exports!

Wish us luck as we dive in and make meaningful headway.

https://youtu.be/SOt7Aw_fPKw?si=JZhC5ote14zpMGqL

Graeme Leak's World Percussion Spectacular FINALE A six-minute edit of the eighteen minute FINALE composed for the 'All-Star World Percussion Spectacular' concert for the Commonwealth Games cultural festival...

🎉 It’s been 2 years since we released Children of Metropolis!
An album of 16 original tracks, all played on over 100 instruments we built from industrial scrap.
💥 Sound wild? It is — and it sounds beautiful, too.

🎧 Listen (or Buy!): https://linktr.ee/scrapartsmusic
🎬 Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/jK1nvVhTW9U?si=0JEp1T4t4QDwLT8_
💡 Learn more: https://www.scrapartsmusic.com

Children of Metropolis (official teaser) "Children of Metropolis" - A Scrap Arts Music ProductionFrom the innovative creators at Scrap Arts Music comes a playful tale of urban renewal, featuring the...

Pssst!! Spread the word! We are doing a FREE concert of "Children of Metropolis" on Earth Day 2025!

Morrison Center to host free concert for Earth Day April 22 Looking for a new way to celebrate Earth Day? Why not embrace an eco-friendly “reduce-reuse-recycle”...

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🔃 During the Coca-Cola company’s early years, it led a waste-free system for fountain drinks and created a successful deposit return system that ensured an impressive 96% of its glass bottles were reused.⁠

⚠️ And today? Coca-Cola is the largest consumer-facing global seller of plastics, producing 134 BILLION – almost one quarter – of the world’s PET plastic bottles. ⁠
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👀 Between the 1950s and 1970s, the company gutted its own refillable infrastructure in the US, opting for single-use containers that externalized the cost of its new packaging waste onto the public and ratepayers. ⁠
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🔎 The Story of Stuff Project's report reveals that Coke knew at the start of the 1970s that switching to single-use containers would be worse for the environment, but doubled down regardless. ⁠🥤🥤⁠
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⚠️ Then the company set about battling federal and state legislative efforts to hold the beverage industry accountable for the lifecycle costs of its packaging through bottle bills and bans on single-use containers.⁠
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⚠️ In 2022, Coca-Cola announced its intent to sell 25% of its beverages globally in refillable containers. But there’s a glaring hole in its flagship market, the US, where the company has virtually no refillables in circulation apart from one small pilot project in Texas. ⁠

⚠️ What's more, in 2024, Coca-Cola quietly dropped its reuse targets and decreased its plastic recycling goals from previous initiatives, doubling down on polluting plastic and the failure of plastic recycling.⁠
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TAKE ACTION TODAY ✅ Join us in calling on Coca-Cola and its bottlers to change the course of history and lead the beverage industry once again by bringing back refillable bottles and supporting state-mandated refill quotas.⁠

✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/bringbackrefill
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What a fascinating interview with Justin Gray, the man who mastered our immersive (and binaural) mixes for Children of Metropolis. Check it out!
Congrats Justin Gray and https://ImmersiveMastering.com !

Q&A: Justin Gray on mastering immersive music, remixing Snoop Dogg in Dolby Atmos, and more! | IAA The Toronto-based mixer and mastering engineer talks all things immersive audio, including remixing one of the biggest hip-hop albums of all time in Dolby Atmos.

Must be amazing to have Harry Partch's instruments back in San Diego after all this time. I remember having the chance to see them on the east coast when we were on tour one year but we ultimately never saw them - we were so bummed! But now they are back!

EDIT - Canadians can't see what I attached so I included one of the photos of the article and encourage you to search out Harry Partch and San Diego to get this article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/harry-partch-s-priceless-musical-instruments-return-to-san-diego-after-33-year-odyssey/ar-AA1rPGs6?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

Justine woke up this morning with the sad realization this might be the only live performance featuring Gregory's long strings... 😢

Concerto for Chariot of Choir and Strings Perhaps one of the last times you'll ever see the Long Strings created by Gregory Kozak performed in concert. This is from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's ...

We were searching for a completely different video and found this one made by Socorro NM a number of years ago. It aptly demonstrates what an educational show and/or lecture by Scrap Arts Music is! Enjoy...

Scrap Arts Music in Socorro County Scrap Arts Music outreach activities in Socorro County April 16th through the 23rd 2015. We had such a great time with this group, hope you enjoy the video!