"[use music] to heal the scars that the hostilities [in Colombia] left"
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Reincorporation of victims, "as a project in which the labels of victims or ex-combatants do not fit, no matter the origin nor the difficulties that its members have experienced."
Transformar conflictos y manifestaciones violentas en cultura viva que genera cambio. Nuestro reto es formar una nueva generación de líderes artísticos en la comuna 13, creando sociedades resilientes, pacificas y socialmente sostenibles.
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Musical performances and musical group organization in Comuna 13, Medellin. https://issuu.com/sonbatac13
Sankofa.org educates, motivates, and activates artists and allies in service of grassroots movements and equitable change.
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Some of the key issues we are currently addressing include: the systemic violence that has poisoned our society and is being reinforced by legislation such as Stand Your Ground, rampant over-incarceration rates including the cradle-to-prison pipeline and an unequal justice system; income disparity, where wealth is concentrated at the top and the earnings gap between has only grown more pronounced since the 1960's. https://www.sankofa.org/how-we-work
'This musical and cultural collaboration between Pakistan and Jordan acted as a mechanism for cultural diplomacy by bringing together humanity through art and music, said the artists. As musical ambassadors, they facilitated cross-cultural understanding and promoted unity and peace between their two nations by singing songs in various languages and dialects. The goal of the concert, which was the first collaboration of its kind, was to engage the public with both countries’ cultural and societal aspects through the blending of Arabic and Punjabi music, while also supporting an independent, local band like SemaZen. “[The concert] is about us showing our cultural to them,” commented Khan during the performance. “The idea of the show is to fuse our cultures together."
All programs and special projects and initiatives are undertaken with the understanding that to reach all sectors of society each community must be approached on its own terms. Co-existence and tolerance are foundations upon which we build our approach to education.
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The singers of the Shani Girls' Choir are Jewish, Arab, Christian and Muslim girls between the ages of 13 and 18, from the towns and villages of the Central Galilee. The girls rehearse twice a week under the baton of Ms. Pnina Inbar.Their repertoire includes classical and folk music, as well as songs in Hebrew and Arabic, most of which were composed especially for the choir.Performance venues have included the President's residence in Israel, The Vatican in Rome in the presence of his holiness Pope Benedict XVI, and the Mormon Church in Jerusalem. The choir has also been invited to sing at multicultural events in Germany, Italy and the United States.
'Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world.'
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'Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking cultural collaboration and high quality arts education to help build a more hopeful and inclusive world. What does this look like? The Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble — Silkroad thrills audiences worldwide with a collective of artists representing dozens of nationalities and artistic traditions, demonstrating how great beauty can emerge from great difference. Creation of new music — Silkroad builds upon a musical language founded in difference and collaboration that draws on the rich tapestry of world traditions that make up our many-layered contemporary identities. Social impact initiatives — Silkroad brings music, hope, and healing to underserved, culturally rich, urban, rural, indigenous, and refugee communities. Educational partnerships — Silkroad uses the arts to ignite passions and foster education in students, teachers, and musicians through training workshops and residency programs in public schools, universities, prisons, and indigenous and refugee communities.
Sing Human Rights is: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UHDR) set to music with catchy tunes. Here you find free sheet music und free mp3s – it’s musical human rights education.The German composer Axel Christian Schullz has had the idea and has composed the music. But any other composer or songwriter is invited to make their musical version of any of the articles of the UDHR and send it to Axel.
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As a choir conductor I came across uncountable musical versions of Bible verses but I did not find one musical version of human rights, although the UDHR is basis of the international community. That is why I set myself to scoring the UDHR. Anyone remembers words better if they have a melody to them, and I think it is important that many people know human rights. The more people know their rights, the more people will claim their rights. And if more people claim their (and everyone else’s) human rights, the world will hopefully become a better place.
Singing for Change (SFC) helps people living in reduced circumstances become more self-sufficient and create positive change in their lives and communities.
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Singing for Change funds organizations that inspire personal growth, community integration and the enhanced awareness that collectively, people can bring about positive change. We believe people can achieve sustainable self-sufficiency when they live in vibrant, diverse communities. We focus our resources on inclusive, grassroots organizations that rely strongly on volunteer efforts, where foundation support makes a significant difference.
Som da Maré articulates small fragments of all this cultural expression through sound. Between technologies and everyday life, these experiences can echo in the form of memories but also future ambition, re-signifying space and place through time.
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The result of four months of workshops and fieldwork forms the basis of two cultural interventions: an exhibition in Museu da Maré and guided soundwalks in the city of Rio de Janeiro. These interventions present realities, histories and ambitions of everyday life in the Maré favelas through immersive sound installation, documentary photography, text and objects. Soundwalk: https://somdamare.wordpress.com/soundwalk/
LA ESCUELA QUE QUIERE RECONCILIAR A EXCOMBATIENTES Y SUS VECINOS EN EL CESAR
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se inauguró la línea de música del proyecto Son de Paz, la cual permitirá que niños, niñas y adolescentes, tanto de la vereda Tierra Grata, como de la comunidad vecina de San José de Oriente, del municipio de La Paz, puedan acceder a clases gratuitas de música en una formación con enfoque de derechos y construcción de paz.
Expand current knowledge and understanding of how listening, performing, or creating music involves intricate circuitry in the brain that could be harnessed for health and wellness applications in daily life; Explore ways to enhance the potential for music as therapy for neurological disorders; Identify future opportunities for research; and
create public awareness about how the brain functions and interacts with music.
Our mission is to promote research and public awareness about the impact of music on health and wellness.
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Vision: We envision a network that engages a broad range of multidisciplinary stakeholders - including scientists, music therapists, musicians, clinicians, patients, music and arts organizations, funders and the general public. Through our coordinating role, we will facilitate individual and collaborative efforts that promote the quality, quantity, and relevance of research at the intersections of music, neuroscience, health, and wellness across the lifespan, advancing the potential of music to improve all our lives.
creates unique video content, experiences, and events to provide awareness, education, resources, and direct paths to treatment—especially for youth and marginalized communities.
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1: Reduce Stigma, Raise Awareness, Spread Hopefulness
By spreading personal stories from artists and fans about managing mental health struggles, we create dialogue that minimizes shame surrounding discussions of mental wellbeing.
2: Educate & Engage
We host and appear at live events to provide resources about mental health to music fans of all genres, with extra focus on under-represented communities and young people who may be unaware of, or even feel alienated by, the existing culture of mental health care.
3: Provide Pathways to Treatment
Through the SoS Therapy Fund, we offer grants to fans and artists that cover up to 12 psychotherapy sessions with experienced and culturally competent clinicians in their area or online. We partner with specific clinical networks to increase the likelihood that participants are able to financially afford treatment if desired following the grant period.
"to involve asylum seekers and refugees, housed in reception centres, in music improvisation workshops coordinated by them within their own reception centres" (Della Puppa and Storato, 2021).
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music improvisation workshops: "Each workshop, consisting of two or three meetings, is aimed at creating a temporary band and, therefore, working towards a live performance, outside the reception centre. Usually, improvisation starts from the sounds that asylum seekers have on their cell phones (ringtones, music samples, video soundtracks and,sometimes, music tracks they composed in the country of origin), to make sound creation possible using common and easy to find instruments and to underline the fundamental role that mobile phones play in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers." (Della Puppa and Storato, 2021).
'Promote music as a tool that transforms the lives of people, especially children and youth, through the formation of integral performers in their interpretations with a culture of peace and happiness for mankind.'
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Form integral musicians: Heart (or soul), spirit and body Promote a trade or profession for children and youths in different Latin American countries. Promote a change in frequency, from 440 hertz (Hz), which is used today, to 432Hz, which is considered the natural frequency of the human being, the frequency of peace. Cultivate and broadcast music for peace through their presentations and productions
Our mission is to initiate processes of upholding the values of quality and multicultural music. To Foster appreciation, increasing knowledge and understanding of the music language among young people and the general public in Israel. Thus to influence a better society, which is more tolerant and open to all kinds of people and cultures.
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This unique orchestra consists of twenty-four young musicians, instrumentalists and singers, most of which are students at various music academies in Israel. They are volunteers, aged sixteen to thirty-four, coming from all parts of the country, Arabs, Jews and Druse. The orchestra meets every Thursday for a rehearsal in Tel-Aviv, playing a repertoire of newly composed or arranged works taken from Oriental Arabic or Jewish tradition. The works are adapted for the mixed ensemble of Western String Instruments and piano with Eastern instruments such as Oud, Darbuka and Arab Violin.
to harness the power of technological innovation, advance education, and create meaningful human connections in communities around the world through authentic virtual experiences with music
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committed to preserving and innovating musical traditions and cultures from around the world.
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We connect musicians, teachers, classrooms, and audiences across world regions through online cultural exchange programs and services.
My vision is to use music as a kind of emotional technology tool to extend this dialogue beyond the music – to unite people from dissimilar cultural, ethnic or national backgrounds, overcome barriers, and improve society in Israel and worldwide.
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Leshman describes how, at student workshops, the MFD method breaks down barriers. Before their first weekly meeting, students enter songs that are most meaningful to them onto the website Pick-A-Music (www.pickamusic.com). The site was conceived by Leshman as a social platform for sharing musical and personal experiences and facilitating the group activities that are part of the MFD in-depth process. /'Then, during the workshop, something amazing happens,/” says Leshman. /“In no time participants begin sharing intimate personal stories with one another though they never met before./” Workshop participants often surprise one another with their musical preferences and even more so with their stories. /“We can see that we mustn’t judge people. They’re much more complex than we think, as are their musical identities,/” he says.
We are a network of academics and practitioners aimed at building expertise to critically assess the role of performing arts practices for peace education and inclusion in conflict settings.
Our mission is to stimulate cultural equity through preservation, research, and dissemination of the world's traditional music and dance, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage. ACE is a living archive that puts its collections and works at the service of communities of origin, endangered cultures, emerging cultural leaders, students and teachers at all levels, and the scientific community.
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ACE is custodian of the Alan Lomax Archive. We are currently updating and making Internet-compatible the Global Jukebox, the remarkable multi-media research and educational program spearheaded by Alan Lomax in the early 1990s. This will enable us to share the research paradigms, findings, and data of Lomax's research initiatives with musicologists, movement specialists, evolutionary anthropologists, and other scholars worldwide, as well as with the general public.
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus is a choral and dialogue program for Palestinian and Israeli youth in Jerusalem. Our mission is to provide a space for these young people from East and West Jerusalem to grow together in song and dialogue. Through the co-creation of music and the sharing of stories, we empower youth in Jerusalem with the responsibility to speak and sing their truths, as they become leaders in their communities and inspire singers and listeners around the world to work for peace, justice, inclusion, and equality.
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The Jerusalem Youth Chorus is unique in its combination of music and dialogue programming, providing a transformative experience for our singers that yields both friendship and understanding on an individual and collective level across lines of religion, nationality, language, and culture. We go beyond simply singing together, delving deeper into one another’s identities, life experiences, communal narratives, religious traditions, and national histories through dialogue, all within the safe space of the musical ensemble and the strong personal bonds and community it creates.
Fostering interracial understanding through music. "contribute to a change of attitudes towards immigrants among Norwegian elementary school pupils through an educational program rooted in the immigrants own cultural heritage, and with the main emphasis placed on music and dance"
Together In Hope Project serves as a catalyst for healing and reconciliation among people and communities through the transformative power of music. The Together In Hope Project carries out its purpose by creating unique, music-anchored projects to address a need and an opportunity for healing and reconciliation.
Together with Music is an intergenerational programme created to encourage and inspire community connections both now, in this new virtual world and in the future when we can be together in person once again.
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We have created a platform that will inspire, support and empower care homes, schools and community groups to play an active role within their neighbourhood. Through music and the act of music making, sustainable and creative connections can be made which will, in turn, build stronger, healthier and more integrated communities for years to come. Whether you are a care home, sheltered accommodation, school or community group, we want you to be a part of the first UK wide, intergenerational network of connection!
"use entertainment and artistic expression to promote intercultural harmony, mutual understanding, and peaceful coexistence between refugees and their host community."
Defending Freedom of Expression Around the Globe. In the fight against oppression and injustice, the first step is having the freedom to speak out, to raise one’s voice. Often it’s artists and activists who sound the alarm and call others to join in action. These early responders to injustice and oppression need to be able to do so free from persecution and prosecution. Movements and issues ranging from the environment to equality and fighting global poverty are dependent on the individual’s ability to advance these causes via this foundational human right; freedom of expression. Our goal is to be on the front lines defending those who use their voice to speak out. In this era of greatly increasing globalization, and what seems to be a concomitant marginalization of human rights, we’ve seen increased pressure brought to bear to limit freedom of expression and prosecute those who speak out, so we feel this work is more relevant and more important than ever.
foundation for art in conflict regions, initiates its own art projects, accompanies their realisation and studies how providing room for art can promote conflict mediation and peacebuilding. It is an independent, politically unaffiliated, active foundation.
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As part of the process of reconstructing society in the wake of wars and violent conflicts, artasfoundation initiates art projects and accompanies their realisation. Art and peace-building. artasfoundation explores ways in which diplomatic conciliation processes and peacebuilding mediation can be supported by specific artistic interventions. Art and peace-mediation. artasfoundation networks people and organisations involved in peacebuilding and conflict mediation by means of art. It studies this field of activity and reflects on its own practical work. https://www.artasfoundation.ch/en/activities#art-and-peace-building
To empower leaders of cultural and creative spaces to make smarter decisions through evidence-based tools, resources and insights.
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More sustainable arts and cultural organisations for a greater social impact.
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Artsmetric is a free digital benchmarking platform for arts and cultural organisations to learn from their peers. It allows you to get an overview of your organisation, track it and compare it with other organisations. Moreover, it allows you to find new partners across Europe. Artsmetric also contains selected resources for arts and cultural managers on themes such as arts business models, urban regenerations, leadership, etc. And we are constantly looking for new resources to add. Projects include: Stronger Arts and Cultural Organisations for A Greater Social Impact; Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities; Shift Culture: Shared Initiatives for Training
we use sound to enable people with learning disabilities to express themselves, connect with others, and feel the warmth of music.
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now a national charity that has pioneered the use of music, rhythm and sound to give children and adults with disability a voice, a way to express themselves and be listened to.Our training programme in schools has continued to expand and develop around the specific needs of staff in SEN Schools and professionals who support people with severe learning disabilities. Training is delivered by our highly skilled Soundabout practitioners. Some of our practitioners also work as special needs teachers in schools and some are Music Therapists. However, all are highly skilled specialist practitioners with a national reputation for delivering unique in-classroom training. In addition, we offer children, young people and adults along with their families and carers, regular community sessions which encourage absolutely everyone to take part in their own way, in a relaxed and friendly environment. Once again, all of these sessions are lead and developed by our highly skilled music practitioners.
A groundbreaking initiative which aimed to promote artistic collaborations that look to the past & future for new dialogues between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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the {Re}conciliation Initiative aimed to promote artistic collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, investing in the power of art and imagination to inspire dialogue, understanding and change.
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sponsored several different projects (some seem to continue on their own)