Category: Community Music Programme
Assumoud Music Flotilla
This July, Music & Resilience took part in the MUSA & Resilience 2026 project, a training exchange that brought a group of Palestinian students from Lebanon to Italy. The project aimed to deliver a non-formal education programme involving young musicians from Palestinian refugee camps as peer educators.Three public concerts were given at the end of the two weeks programme.
Music and Resilience Flottilla
During the summer, 10 young Italian musicians will participate free of charge in a non-formal education program alongside 5 young Palestinian musicians who, as peer educators, will share their musical heritage, their stories, and their experiences of resilience. Together, they will create an original concert born from the meeting of different traditions, languages, and sensitivities: a true musical crossing that portrays the Mediterranean as a space of dialogue, solidarity, and freedom.
We need your help to make the dream come true!
M&R Lebanon Summer Camp 2025
Music & Resilience continues its work with its Palestinian friends, and this year's eagerly awaited August Summer Camp involved around 80 young people from seven different refugee camps, with the traditional final concert featuring Arabic pieces and original arrangements of European songs.
Planning & monitoring visit in Lebanon
Part of the M&R team was in Lebanon with our Palestinian friends at the beginning of May, from 1st to 7th. We were able to have a number of institutional meetings that we hope will allow us to expand the project's network of partnerships (such as UNRWA and the Italian embassy) and we made friends with Captain Majdi Majzoub, a basketball and football coach who has built a centre inside the Shatila camp. On Sunday, May 4th, at the Beddawi camp, a whole day of music, study and sharing was organised with the students and teachers participating in the [...]
“This is pur resistance”: M&R documentary
Francesco Corsi made a wonderful documentary about our project, following us this summer during our Community Music activities, while in South Lebanon the conflict was escalating and we, a group of around 50 Palestinian musicians and 10 Italians in the Tarablus District in North Lebanon, were organising a summer music camp and preparing for a concert. Discover our work through the voices of its participants, the rehearsal footage, and the musician interviews!
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.
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!
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 the Conservatorio 'A. Scarlatti' in Palermo, we gave a presentation open to students and citizens, with some more technical details on the musical and psychosocial nature of the work we do with our Palestinian friends. Prof. Rosa Alba Gambino, lecturer in music pedagogy, introduced the topic of Community Music, while [...]
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 in the second week, which culminated in the final concert on Saturday 19. During the first week, Community Music work was carried out in the camps of Beddawi (Tripoli) and Mar Elias (Beirut); in the latter, we began a collaboration with Al Kamandjati, a long-standing Palestinian association that has always [...]
Almost ready for M&R August 2023!
At Prima Materia this Saturday we hosted a large part of the Italian team to organise the imminent departure for Lebanon. The Community Music team met to work on the repertoire that will be studied with the Palestinian students and performed at the final concert on 19 August, and we had some fun playing, rehearsing and discussing together. This year the Italian team amounts to 17 people! This is a very large number, which testifies to the interest in this project. We are grateful to all those who support M&R directly or indirectly… only through synergy on many levels is [...]
