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Preparing the Summer Music Camps in Lebanon
The PM M&R and MARS teams and supporters are getting ready for the July Summer Music Camps with Assumoud, to be held in the Beddawi and Saida centres, involving children in the Community Music groups, with a residential course for 30 children in the mountains, before the final concert in [...]
A new donor for M&R
We have just received a generous donation from Cheap Street Church, Sherborne, Dorset (UK). THANK YOU to the Church council, congregation and community for supporting M&R; we look forward to coming to present the project locally. Anyone else who would like to support M&R can do so via our crowd-funding campaign. [...]
Fund raising evening for M&R
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our "Serata Palestinese" on 18th March; a highly enjoyable evening with presentation conference, a delicious Arabic supper, and lots of music. Funds raised will go towards covering the live costs of this year's project actions, the next of which starts next [...]
Planning for April …
Beddawi Community Music group at work, Friday 3rd March 2017. This week PM has completed follow-up visits to Beddawi and Saida Community Music groups, for detailed planning of the April workshops, when a team of 6 musicians from Italy, Spain and UK (including 4 students from the Erasmus [...]
Report M&R 2016
Here is the full report of our actions in 2016: we invite you to read what we were able to achieve in the Music Therapy and Community Music programs, and how much it meant for some of the children involved: mr-full-report-for-sponsors-and-donors-nov-2016 Thank you, as always, to our many sponsors and [...]
Final Concert of Summer Music Camp, Beddawi, 14th August 2016
https://youtu.be/wJYl9DsLXFY
August 2016 – M&R continues …
We are just back from a 3 week stay in Lebanon, continuing M&R in both its aspects of Music Therapy (MT) and Community Music (CM). The Prima Materia team numbered 12, including the project coordinators, 6 CM teachers, 2 MT trainees, and 2 volunteers. Thank you to everyone who supported [...]
2nd year professional music therapy training for Assumoud psychologists
The 2 Assumoud psychologists, Mohamad Orabi and Liliane Younes, have just completed their 2nd year of training at the Music Therapy School of Assisi. Assisted and tutored by Deborah Parker, they attended the 15 day intensive residential course, and passed all the exams for the 1st year subjects with high [...]
Support Music & Resilience 2016!
We just started a crowdfunding campaign on generosity.com to support project Music and Resilience in summer 2016. This year a group of volunteer teachers and students from Prima Materia will follow and develop the musical resources in two refugee camps together with our partner Beit Atfal Assumoud بيت اطفال الصمود. [...]
New video online
Here it comes! We have just published a new video about last two years in Music and Resilience project, it is available in the Multimedia section of the blog! The documentary covers the activities in the Community Music and Music Therapy programmes from June 2013 to November 2015. The video [...]
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 [...]
diario di un viaggio infinito …
Pubblicato dai nostri amici dell'associazione PerCorsi nella rivista quadrimestrale PerCorsi Bio Salute (febbraio 2016: anno VIII: n°1) un articolo sullo scambio M&R 2013. Scritto dalla coordinatrice dello scambio, Rebecca Brown, e una delle giovani partecipanti, Silvia Filipponi, con estratti dei diari che i ragazzi hanno tenuti durante la permanenza di [...]
