Radio Maillardville CFMA is a dynamic and collaborative three-hour workshop that integrates music and drama with local history. In 2007, Place des Arts brought together local theatre professionals to develop perform and record three radio episodes called Radio Maillardville: A Vaudeville. Celebrating Maillardville’s unique history and the golden age of radio, these original scripts provide the foundation for this enrichment opportunity for the intermediate-level learner (Grades 6 – 8). The fictional radio station Radio Maillardville CFMA takes the student back to the time when Canadians gathered around the radio for news and entertainment. Based on true stories of real Maillardville characters and current events of the period, students will recreate and record adapted versions of the original scripts. During this process, they will use traditional Foley sound effects and Reader’s Theatre techniques combined with modern-day recording technology to create a compelling radio play. The Radio Maillardville CFMA workshop is a one-of-a-kind experience that broadens students’ arts education. They will have opportunities throughout the workshop to participate as arts practitioners themselves, creating music and drama and bridging audio technology from yesteryear to today. Along with developing creative skills, they will also learn about technical aspects of radio drama production. Radio Maillardville CFMA has been developed by qualified educators using techniques, activities, content and methods that meet diverse student needs, cross-curricular outlines, and enrichment to the prescribed learning outcomes of the BC Ministry of Education Integrated Resource Package for Drama, Language Arts (French and English), Music and Social Studies.