Category: Events

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.

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.

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!

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).

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.

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 Palermo (lecturer in music therapy), who outlined the community approach in music therapy with a speech entitled 'Community Music Therapy: history, evolution and perspectives in contemporary music therapy'. Music & Resilience also participated last year in the conference organised by the Conservatory on the occasion of the European Music Therapy [...]

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 camps in Lebanon'.

On February 23, Music&Resilience’s team went to Padua, in Pedro’s Social Center, to talk about art and music as a form of resistance, in relation to our project that has been going on in Lebanon for ten years, within the Palestinians refugee camps. The evening also hosted the stories of past projects, such as Gaza is Alive, an initiative that brought the study and practice of Hip Hop to the Gaza Strip in 2019; and the presentation of the books “No sleep till Shengal” by Zerocalcare and “La Montagna sola. The Ezidis and the democratic autonomy of Sengal” by Chiara [...]

For the 9th European Music Therapy Day, the "Bruno Maderna" Conservatory in Cesena organized a music therapy conference on November 18 and 19. Alberto Balducci was invited, along with Jacopo Camillini and Sara Tosolini, to speak at the conference, to present M&R and share the work done in the August 2022 music therapy internship (completed by Sara and Jacopo at the El Jalil camp in Baalbek). Alberto introduced the project to the audience, explaining its genesis and activities, and speaking about the civic and social situation of the Palestinian community, while Sara and Jacopo expounded on the music therapy work [...]