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M&R Summer Camp 2024
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.
M&R summer activities 2024, first week done
The first week of activities of the Music & Resilience project in Lebanon has been concluded. It was a week marked by interruptions, programme changes, sudden decisions and a lot, a lot, of adaptability.
There is anticipation for next week's summer camp, which should finally bring together students from five refugee camps: Nahr-El-Bared, Beddawi, Shatila, Ein-El-Helwa and Rashidiye to build together the repertoire for a big final concert.
Day and night there is always extra attention, care and hospitality that make us feel part of a big Palestinian family.
Music & Resilience in Mazara del Vallo (TP)
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.
Getting ready for M&R 2024
The almost complete Italian team met at Prima Materia over the weekend of 22-23 June to prepare for departure.
In the same days we met with another group, present at Prima Materia to receive training in Community Music as a resource to counter social marginalisation through inclusive collective music actions: the MUSA project. As always, these kinds of meetings are very beautiful and fruitful for our way of working and seeing the world!
Musica & Pace
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!
M&R T-shirts!
Thanks to a collaboration with our friends from Arché onlus and the Libera Orchestra Popolare di Marsala, we are making t-shirts for Music & Resilience! They are mde at the Sappusi Social Centre, in collaboration with the Juvenile Justice Centre of Palermo in the detached office of the Marsala Juvenile Social Services Office.
The t-shirts will be available soon for those who want to support the project, stay tuned!
Culture as weapon, identity as resistance
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).
Music & Resilience at the “human rights day” in Montespertoli
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.
European MusicTherapy Day 2023
Marco, Alberto, Jacopo, Sara and Emilia participated as main speakers in the conference entitled 'Community Music Therapy. Experiences of music therapy to support marginalised communities', organised by the 'Bruno Maderna' Conservatory of Cesena. The conference was opened by Barbara Zanchi (lecturer in music pedagogy and music therapy) and Maria Teresa [...]
Music Therapy: The Transcultural Challenge
Deborah was invited to speak about music therapy in a transcultural context at the study day of the same name organised by the Music Therapy Centre in Milan, on 28 October 2023: she presented a talk entitled 'Music therapy and transculture - problem or resource? Experiences from the Palestinian refugee [...]
Music & Resilience Sicily Tour 2023
Marco, Chiara and Alberto have just returned from a mini-tour of Sicily to deliver three presentations of Music & Resilience at some local venues: 20 October at the Associazione Finestre sul Mondo (Marsala). Salvatore Inguì of Finestre sul Mondo and the Libera Orchestra Popolare organised the meeting. 21 October at [...]
M&R activities summer 2023
The final concert is starting! The M&R team has just completed its activities for Summer 2023, which took place from 7 to 19 August. This year the team (consisting of a total of 17 people) worked separately in the first week, and then came together in Baalbek for Summer Camp [...]
