Category: Events
M&R @ World Congress of Music Therapy 2026 (Italy)
Music & Resilience took part in the 18th World Congress of Music Therapy, which was held in Bologna (Italy) from 7 to 12 July 2026. Alberto, Luca and Marco gave three separate presentations:
- a pre-conference session on the topic of musical intervention in humanitarian crisis contexts, alongside Indra Selvarajah
- a brief overview of the project, with particular emphasis on our work in Lebanon with Palestinian refugees and in Ukraine with internally displaced persons
- a round-table discussion on the topic of music therapy in crisis contexts, shared with other professionals
M&R @ La musica, la guerra, la pace
Music & Resilience spoke at the conference "music, war, peace" held in Florence on Saturday, 22nd November.
Alberto presented the project, talking about the community approach to music as a means of cultural and psychosocial support for marginalised and deprived communities, with particular reference to our experiences with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and displaced people in Ukraine, and shared this with other projects with a variety of approaches.
M&R @ Savigliano
Music & Resilience spoke at the conference "music, war, peace" held in Florence on Saturday, 22nd November.
Alberto presented the project, talking about the community approach to music as a means of cultural and psychosocial support for marginalised and deprived communities, with particular reference to our experiences with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and displaced people in Ukraine, and shared this with other projects with a variety of approaches.
M&R @ BRIDGES – 13th European Music Therapy Conference
Marco and Luca attended the 13th European Music Therapy Conference in Hamburg (Germany), 23-27 July, whose topic this year was "bridges", with a presentation titled Music & Resilience: Community Music Therapy as a Tool for Inclusion and Well-Being for Refugee Youth. It was a testament to a practice that, day after day, strives to build bridges through music: between people, cultures, fragilities, and possibilities.
Together for Palestine in Bologna
On 13 June M&R participated in the organisation of a fundraising dinner in Bologna together with the local Gaza community and Bologna per Gaza. Together we cooked, talked, watched and shared! It was a great success.
M&R at the Festival Resistente di Montemaggio
Music & Resilience took part in this year's Montemaggio Festival Resistente, in the hills of Siena, collaborating with ANPI Val D'Elsa and delivering live events throughout the festival, offered by key members in the M&R project.
The encounter between Music & Resilience and the ANPI Val d'Elsa has only just begun and has already produced many wonderful things, a fine way to start liberating our future together.
“This is our Resistance” in Agrigento
On april, 8th the documentary "This Is Our Resistance" was screened in Agrigento, at Arci "John Belushi" Agrigento.
M&R in Barcelona
On 11 January 2025, Music & Resilience flew to Barcelona, together with Marco Lolli and Luca Scavone, for an intense day of meeting and sharing. We had the opportunity to meet with students, teachers and activists, talking about our work and sharing experiences on how music can be a tool of support and resistance in the most difficult contexts.
In the morning they met with the students of the Master in Music Therapy at ESMUC, while in the afternoon they moved to Can Battlò, a self-managed social space in the heart of Barcelona, to participate in ‘Existir per/para Resistir’, an event organised by Mediterranea Barcelona.
“This is our Resistance” in Colle Val d’Elsa
The series of screenings of our documentary, beautifully created by Francesco Corsi, are going on. On the evening of december the 18th we were at Teatro del Popolo in Colle Val d'Elsa, for a nice evening organized by Forum per la Pace (Forum for Peace). The evening programme was: A musical improvisation by Emiliano Nigi The screening of Francesco Corsi's documentary "This is our Resistance" Little talk and debate with M&R and Forum della Pace.
“This is our resistance” documentary in Bologna
The M&R documentary by Francesco Corsi, This is our resistance, was screened by the association Percorsi di Pace (in the "house for peace" La Filanda, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna), where two classes from the local Lucio Dalla Music High School joined us too. Before and after the event, between songs and slices of pizza, we dreamed about the future of the project. Between meetings and cups of tea, we envisioned the next steps together.
