Coming Together at the Crossroads: Music Study in Canada in 2026

Join us in Winnipeg, Manitoba for a joint conference of the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan), Canadian Association of Music Libraries (CAML), Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSTM), and Canadian Network for Musicians’ Health & Wellness (CNMHW).

Dates: May 21-24, 2026

Location: Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba (view map). Enter through Concert Hall doors on Maclean Cres.

Format: Hybrid (in-person/online)

Final program is now posted.

Zoom Links

The Zoom coordinates for Coming Together at the Crossroads, May 21 to May 24 are in the Fourwaves schedule. The same Zoom coordinates will be used for each day of the hybrid sessions.

In the event of technical difficulties please use the Zoom coordinates in the Fourwaves schedule

Coming Together at the Crossroads will bring together community members, musicians, artists, and members of four scholarly societies who will engage with local public-facing venues to allow for cross-sector dialogues and exchange.

The themes that will be explored throughout this gathering include:

• Music, Migration, and Diaspora

• Identity, Gender, and Diversity

• Indigeneity, Reconciliation, and Relationality

• Precarity, and its Implications for Music-making

• Digital Technologies, AI, and Music

• Crisis in Post-Secondary Education

• Music Study in Canada in the 21st Century

• Expanding Music Librarianship & Archival Practice 

• Collaborative & Interdisciplinary Approaches to Music Library & Archival Research 

• Reconciliation, Stewardship & Decolonizing Practices in Music Libraries & Archives 

• Innovative Outreach & Community Engagement in Music Library & Archives 

• Rethinking Selection, Deselection & Collection Development in Music Collections 

• Practical applications: Emerging Techniques & Technologies 

• Sustainability & Environmental Impacts of Music Collections