Category: Community Music Programme
Orientation Days 2016
The 2016 M&R team have just held the Orientation Days, to plan for the August trip to Lebanon where we will be developing both aspects of the project: music therapy and community music with 'Beit Atfal Assumoud'. PM staff and students, together with training students and voluntary workers, will support community music workshops and music therapy cycles for some 50 children of Saida and Beddawi, and local staff training for both music therapists and music teachers will be offered. The team also did some busking at the Montespertoli Wine Festival, to raise funds for the trip. [...]
Follow-up M&R, NISCVT Annual Conference, March-May 2016
After our follow-up meetings in March for the Music Therapy and Comunity Music programmes of M&R, Prima Materia is in Lebanon for participation in Assumoud's 10th Annual Conference on Mental Health, with a paper presented by Dario Gentili: 'Shared Roots and Chosen Routes: Indentity and Community Care in the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon'. Other days were spent visiting the projects in the camp locations of Saida, Beirut and Beddawi, and in planning meetings with coordinators and donors for the project's continuation, in particular for the Community Summer Camp to be held in August, supported by a team of 10 [...]
Journey to MARS!
We have just embarked on a new voyage, thanks to a UE funded Erasmus+ project coordinated by the International Music Council (France) for the development of an online resource centre and specialized training course for psycho-social music interventions in deprived and marginalised communities, in Europe and beyond. We are proud to participate in a very strong partnership, together with IMC, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (UK), Moviment Coral Catalan (Spain), Euridea Education Agency (Italy) and of course our Palestinian partner NISCVT 'Beit Atfal Assumoud' (Lebanon). Visit the project's new site! Attention all community musicians, music therapists, and social / health / [...]
A new report is online
Another year of project just ended with plenty of activities, important results and news. Some parts of the project were reinforced, some others just started and were implemented during the last missions. The main points in last year's "Music and Resilience" project are reported in the final documentation. Here is the file: Annual Report M&R 14-15
Orientation Meeting for Volunteers
We held our 2nd M&R Orientation Meeting, 10th-11th July, for volunteers and training students. Liliane Younes and Mohamad Orabi from Assumoud were with us, and were able to update information about the project's development. 2 music therapy training students from the Assisi school will be with us in Lebanon in late August, working in Saida with Mohamad Orabi and the team there.
Project news, July 2015
M&R opens a new exciting chapter today, with the arrival in Italy of Liliane Younes and Mohamad Orabi, Assumoud psychologists and music therapy trainees since 2012. Liliane and Mohamad will participate in our Orientation meeting for volunteers, 10-11 July. Then they will attend the first year of the Music Therapy Diploma Course at Assisi (CEP Citadella), together with Deborah Parker as translater/tutor. Our sincere thanks to Ulaia Artesud Rome and CEP Assisi for the generous sponsorship offered to Mohamad and Liliane.
New video added!
We have just uploaded a new video about August 2014's activities in the Community Music Programme. You will find it in the Multimedia session! Here is the Report about our mission in August 2014. (PDF) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ifqTj_Puo
M&R, May 2015, Beirut
We have so many friends in Lebanon now. We're always so happy to return and to continue our work with Beit Atfal Assumoud and the Palestinian refugee community. We've just attended Assumoud's 9th Annual Conference, and conducted follow-up meetings for project planning. And we have had the great pleasure of Mercedes Pavlicevic's company and contribution to M&R ... Read more here Final report M&R May 2015
with our Syrian friends again …
On 4th and 5th May, we continued our project with Sonbola Education initiative, in the Syrian refugees camps in Marej, (Chtaura, Bekaa valley, Lebanon), throught the field-visit of trainer Deborah Parker, to run workshops for the children and supervise their teachers. Read full report here Report sv and follow-up 4-5- May 2015
Solidarity for Lebanon’s young Syrian refugees
Prima Materia is beginning a new project in support of the young Syrian refugee population based in Lebanon, in partnership with SONBOLA, a registered educational initiative under the French Umbrella NGO CODSSY in France, which works on providing quality education and interactive learning for Syrian refugee children in Bekaa while investing in empowering and developing teaching skills of Syrian professionals, and Nai Foundation Austria, which is financing the project. Prima Materia will provide training in psycho-social music education for 15 teachers working in the Bekaa valley with Syrian children. The first course, which will be led by Deborah Parker, is [...]
