By Mike Chunn is the CEO of the Play It Strange Trust and a former member of Split Enz and Citizen Band
Now could be the perfect time to encourage your teenager to take up songwriting, explains Mike Chunn.
Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn met a young autistic drummer and quickly realised how hard things were for those with ASD, especially the young.
Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn reflects on the first year of songwriting as an NCEA subject and shares two of his favourite songs to come out of the initiative with stories by their writers.
Sacred Heart College opened its music-focused School of Imagination last week. Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn says it a guiding light for how schools can nurture and embrace creativity.
New Zealand needs to celebrate its songwriting to ensure great songs get written here, says Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn.
Songwriting has been accepted as a Level 3 NCEA subject from 2017. Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn got the scoop and asked some of New Zealand's best songwriters what they thought about it.
The Nobel Committee’s recognition of Bob Dylan shines a light on the transformative power of songwriting – a craft that very much belongs in New Zealand schools, writes Mike Chunn.
