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January visit 2019
The Prima Materia M&R team was back in Lebanon for a week in early January 2019, to set the actions for the year: - the final touches were put to the music therapy theses of Liliane Younes and Mohamad Orabi, ready for discussion at the Assisi school of Music Therapy [...]
M&R contributions to Assumoud’s Mental Health Conference, October 2018
Prima Materia contributed to Assumoud's annual Mental Health Conference with a paper by Deborah Parker on the Musicality of Infant-Parent Communication and a workshop for conference participants on Vocality by Emiliano Nigi. Emiliano also trained Assumoud staff for 2 days on vocal techniques. The Community Music groups in Beddawi [...]
Thank you Cheap Street Church!
Assumoud Kindergarten teachers in music training with PM, July 2018 In August we received a further, generous donation from our friends in Sherborne (Dorset), UK, through the Cheap Street Methodist Church committee, to help us to continue "Music and Resilience". Our warmest thanks to everyone who [...]
Music & Resilience 17-18 Annual Report
In 2018 M&R completes its 7th year of continuous support and action for the development of music resources as a protection factor for the young generations of the Palestinian and other refugee communities in Lebanon. The prime actors of the project, Prima Materia and NISCVT, are supported by a large [...]
Baalbek mission completed!
Our 2 weeks in the Assumoud Centre in Waevel refugee camp are over - many fruitful and enjoyable moments with the staff groups from Assumoud and Inaash association, and with the children ... training, playing, singing, dancing ... the instruments collected in Italy are safely stowed in their [...]
We’re ready for the next adventure!
Here are just some of the percussion instruments which we have collected, thanks to the generosity of many friends and supporters, which will enable us to establish a new permanent Music Worshop in the Wavel refugee camp in Baalbek (Beqaa valley). We will be in Lebanon form [...]
Call for volunteer music teachers
Volunteer Community Saxophone, String, Guitar and Oud Teachers needed to participate in the “Music and Resilience” Summer Music Camp in Lebanon, last 2 weeks in June 2018. […]
Community Music Spring Workshop 2018
A week of Community Music workshops just ended for the team of Prima Materia in Lebanon, with the support of Taawon – Welfare Organisation. The team spent three days in the refugee camp of Beddawi (Tripoli, in the north of Lebanon) and three days in Sidon (south Lebanon) to start [...]
2018 action planning meetings
Meeting with Wavel coordinator Aziza (17 Feb 2018) Pm coordinator Deborah Parker is in Lebanon this week for meetings with 'Beit Atfal Assumoud', our local partner, and Welfare Association, the principal sponsor of the music programmes; and field visits to the centres where this year's actions will take [...]
Reportage on Summer 2016
We invite you to take a look at the beautiful photo reportage of the activities of project Music And Resilience in summer 2016. The photos are courtesy of our great friend Francesco Sonetti, who followed most of the actions of the project with his loyal camera! To see the photo [...]
M&R Annual Report 2017
We are happy to publish the Full Report of our activities and progress in Music and Resilience for the period September 2016-October 2017. It has been a busy year with many challenges, but also a lot of satisfaction. M&R Full Report 2017 Warm thanks to all the organizations who have contributed: [...]
It’s all happening now!
A small window on the extensive Summer Music program now taking place in the refugee camps of Beddawi, Wavel and in Saida, involving around 60 Palestinian and Syrian children and adolescents. This year the team of 16 music teachers, facilitators and students comes from Italy, France, Spain and UK, including [...]
