Our friends at the Maritime Museum graciously shared these awesome photos taken by Christian Zane. This was December 12, 2024. Kids from at least 8 different schools joined forces for the celebration.
Maritime Museum – Light Up The Harbour 2024
We invited our Senior Choirs from all over the city to join the Maritime Museum in its annual Light Up the Harbour celebration. On December 12, 2024 we arrived with 47 kids and their parents to help with the festivities. Catherine Campolin, our Choral Program Director led the kids. Dave Dagta our pianist kept the…
Musical Halloween 2024
We have below a selection of “scary” music groups from October 31, 2024. Don’t anyone say that choir and band isn’t spooky fun!
Can you help with our Fall Fundraiser?
The Vancouver Extracurricular Music Society (VEMS) was incorporated as a BC Society in May 2023. VEMS currently provides 36 choirs and 2 beginner band offerings in 22 elementary schools as extracurricular activities. We are a charitable organization registered with the CRA. Our goal is to bring as much music as possible to kids in Vancouver…
Fall 2024 Registration
We are currently loading up schools for registration. Some are already up and some will come later. To check it out, please visit www.vems.ca/signup.html Email president@vems.ca if you have any questions.
Fundraising for the Bursary Fund!
We are excited to say that on April 8 we obtained our Canada Revenue Agency Charitable organization status. This means we can issue tax receipts! And pursue other grants. We provided $9,352 in financial assistance in Term 3 and could use some help to ensure we finish the year in the black and can fund…
How does a Tax Donation Work?
VEMS is a CRA registered charity and we rely on generous people. Donate pages like this one abound. But how does it work. Assuming you pay tax on every pay cheque, some of your charitable donations reduces the tax you pay. For example, if for an entire year, you donate $250 to charities that issue…
Charitable Status Achieved!
VEMS is pleased to announce that, on April 1, 2024, the Society was granted tax-exempt status as a registered charity under the Income Tax Act. Our CRA number is 71264 3543 RR0001. apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyBscSrch As of today, April 9, we have 562 children singing in 15 schools in 25 choirs. This is a huge number and…
VEMS at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
On December 14, kids from Beasonsfield Elementary, False Creek Elementary, Hudson Elementary, Laura Secord Elementary, Maple Grove Elementary, Mount Pleasant Elementary, Pierre Elliot Trudeau Elementary, and Trafalgar Elementary went to the Maritime Museum in Kitsilano to help cheer on the lighting of the harbour boats. It was cold and wet and Miss Catherine our Choral…
Singing on Halloween
VEMS has 13 schools running choirs this Fall term. A couple of rehearsal days landed on the every fun, highly excitable, Halloween. Our conductors dug into it and did warm-ups with minor keys and made sure the rehearsal was fun. Please enjoy some photos. Faces are blurred on purpose; they didn’t all wear weird masks!…