Aimee Copping
Social Practice and Transformational Change
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Social Practice and Transformational Change
About
Aimee Copping is a Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD candidate researching the unstable state of music education in Ontario.
Aimee creates self-sustaining music education programs for children and youth. Her longest-running program is Blackball, now in its eleventh year. Blackball is a Sistema-inspired electronic music program currently sited at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
In collaboration with the restorative justice initiative Pros and Cons, Aimee established a dedicated music production space at a federal prison, Grand Valley Institution for Women, and produced two albums of original music composed and performed by imprisoned people.
Aimee volunteers with Girls’ Rock Camp Guelph and has held board and committee seats with the former ARCH Guelph and the Upper Grand District School Board Equitable and Inclusive Schools committee. Aimee sits on the Guelph Youth Music Centre’s board of directors.
Aimee Copping’s article When Bad Things Happen to Good Programs was published in Revista Aspas, the journal of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo. Aimee has received a Canada Council for the Arts grant for her novel-length fiction work, Promise.
Aimee’s the creator/producer of REALLY, an on-campus bullying-reduction campaign to be launched at the University of Guelph in the fall of 2026.