Association of Canadian Women Composers
Registered Name: Association of Canadian Women Composers (ACWC) L'association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes (AFCC)
Business No: 806378139RR0002
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and has been issued a charitable registration number.
The ACWC actively supports music written by Canadian women and women-identified persons.
Our Mission
The ACWC wishes to build on the achievements of the past, encourage women and women-identified composers of the present and develop a body of well researched, catalogued and preserved archival material accessible to students, researchers and performers in the future.
It would like to increase and broaden its membership base to reflect the varied cultures, which have made their home here, and to raise its profile in the Canadian and International Music scene.
About ACWC
The Association of Canadian Women Composers is the only professional association of women composers and musicians in Canada. The ACWC actively supports music written by Canadian women and women-identified persons.
Since its beginnings in 1981, ACWC has supported a number of projects that advocate and celebrate music composed by women in Canada. It supports educational activities, which promote the history of music by women in Canada, and maintains an Archive of over 120 years of materials related to the music of Canadian and other women composers.
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