Category: Events

The series of screenings of our documentary, beautifully created by Francesco Corsi, are going on. On the evening of december the 18th we were at Teatro del Popolo in Colle Val d'Elsa, for a nice evening organized by Forum per la Pace (Forum for Peace). The evening programme was: A musical improvisation by Emiliano Nigi The screening of Francesco Corsi's documentary "This is our Resistance" Little talk and debate with M&R and Forum della Pace.

The M&R documentary by Francesco Corsi, This is our resistance, was screened by the association Percorsi di Pace (in the "house for peace" La Filanda, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna), where two classes from the local Lucio Dalla Music High School joined us too. Before and after the event, between songs and slices of pizza, we dreamed about the future of the project. Between meetings and cups of tea, we envisioned the next steps together.

On Saturday 30 November, an evening in support of Music & Resilience took place at Prima Materia. The evening featured discussions, interviews, music and food: Ahmad El Kheir - M&R project coordinator in Lebanon Jana Alyussif - Palestinian student from Sidon refugee in Lebanon First ever screening of the documentary about M&R "This is our resistance" by Francesco Corsi Presentation of the Min 3youni recording project by Samuele Strufaldi M&R in Ukraine. Voices from the new musical frontier Staff and volunteers of the M&R project returning from their last mission in the refugee camps in Lebanon. Musical interventions by [...]

Chiara, Marco and Sara presented Music & Resilience in Trieste on 26 October, at the Knulp bookshop bar, in an event organised thanks to APS Aulòs Musicoterapia.

Deborah, Marco and Sara took part in the conference Music and Music Therapy for Dialogue between Cultures held on Saturday 19 October at Sermig in Turin, where they presented the Music & Resilience project. It was a wonderful experience and opportunity for mutual exchange, and for reflection on how music and music therapy can be bridges for dialogue between cultures. Thanks to Gerardo Manarolo for inviting us, to Elizabeth Coombes and to all the people who shared the stage with us.

On Saturday 10 August, the final concert of this year’s M&R activities took place, rounding off the Summer Camp 2024 organised as always with our partner Beit Atfal Assumoud.
The Summer Camp was hosted by the Orthodox College of Bkeftine, in the district of Koura, south of Tarablus. Here all the students (a total of 53 boys and girls) from all the camps involved in this year’s project (six: Nahr-El-Bared, Beddawi, Shatila, Burj El Barjeh, Ein-El-Helwa and Rashidiye), the entire M&R team (12 people), the Al Kamandjati musicians, and all the Assumoud staff gathered.
To have completed the difficult task of preparing a full concert in one week is not only a technical and professional achievement: it is an act of resistance against adverse historical, social and political conditions, a demonstration of how the human soul can stand firm and strong in friendship and beauty.

On Saturday 29 June, at the Civic - urban innovation laboratory in Mazara del Vallo (TP), Music and Resilience, music as good practice to support the community was held.

This event, organised by Casa della Comunità Speranza, Prima Materia and Music & Resilience, in collaboration with the Conservatory of Palermo (through the Erasmus+ project KA171) and the Municipality of Mazara del Vallo, discussed experiences and testimonies of music and music therapy activities in Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia and Italy.

On 17 May, Sara spoke about her experience in the Music & Resilience project at the Oratory of San Giovanni al Natisone (in the province of Udine). It was a wonderful evening full of intense emotions. We sincerely thank the organisers for the invitation and the wonderful welcome!

As part of a series of monthly events in support of the Palestinian community at this terrible moment in its history, organised by Prima Materia, yesterday Music & Resilience participated in organising the event Cultura come arma, identità come resistenza [Culture as weapon, identity as resistance] which took place in Prima Materia's premises starting at 5pm (local time). The evening featured a series of talks:

• Marco, Emilia and Luca (Music & Resilience)
• Olga Ambrosanio (founding president of ULAIA ArteSud ODV, on video call)
• Jana Alyussif (Palestinian student from Sidon, Lebanon).

On 10 December, Dario moderated a debate on the humanitarian situation in Palestine organised by Music & Resilience and Prima Materia with Il Paese che vogliamo (and with the support of Il coraggio della pace disarma). Participants included:

• Luisa Morgantini, former Vice-President of the European Parliament in charge of human rights (via video connection)
• Leo Schaefer, jurist, from the Italian-Palestinian Friendship Association
• Safy Hindi, Palestinian in video connection from Nablus
• Sandra Zimbardi, photographer, who exhibited her photographs from a trip to Palestine.