Category: Music Therapy 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 [...]
M&R at the 7th Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Conference
We were honoured to be able to present the results of M&R music therapy at the LPHA conference in Amman, 7-8 March 2016. The conference brought medics and researchers from many countries together to discuss strategies for supporting the health of Palestinians living under permanent harassment and threat by the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the West Bank, in particular under the drastic siege conditions in Gaza, and as diaspora refugee communities without rights. read more ...
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 / [...]
Thank You Tuscany!
We have come to the end of the 2-year period of co-funding granted by the Region of Tuscany, which has enabled us to consolidate our work with Beit Atfal Assumoud and to develop future threads to follow. Here is the Music Therapy Research Report. Coming soon: the video-synthesis of activities during the 2 years! M&R project meeting in Beirut, November 2015: sitting from left to right, Sirkku Kivistö, (coordinator Finnish Psychologist for Social Responsibility, Kassem Aina (director general NISCVT), Liliane Younes (coordinator mental health NISCVT), Deborah Parker (M&R project coordinator); standing, Dr. Madeleine Badaro-Taha (psychiatrist NISCVT), PhD student from [...]
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
Professional Music Therapy Training in Italy for 2 Assumoud psychologists
Mohamad Orabi and Liliane Younes, Assumoud psychologists, have just completed the first step towards their Music Therapy Diplomas from the Assisi Music Therapy School. Read the full report: Eng. report training Assisi 2015 Thanks to Ulaia Artesud, Rome, the Tavola Valdese and 'Pro Civitate Cristiana' Assisi for funding and support.
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.
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
