Category: Psychosocial Music Programme
M&R in Ukraine: December 2025
We have just returned from our sixth mission to Ukraine in support of the displaced population in Lviv, accompanying Mediterranea Saving Humans once again on what was their 22nd mission there, that took place from 29 November to 7 December.
It is wonderful to see how the Ukrainian refugees are still alive: finding tables laden with food waiting for us is not only a warm welcome and a testament to how important ‘being together’ is at all levels, but also how this population has not given up and succumbed to despair, but is still capable of rejoicing and sharing, of creating and sharing human warmth.
M&R in Ukraine: July 2025
M&R is actively carrying on with its missions in Ukraine with our friends from Mediterranea Saving Humans: the two organisations joined forces again for Mediterranea's 20th mission in Lviv, from 10 to 20 July. Our joint work is progressing. We have noticed an improvement in musical relationships with the people involved, a greater ability to engage in sharing and creation (two skills that are fundamental to psychosocial well-being).
We also participated in a day organised by the local music therapy association, offering a workshop on psychosocial activities.
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.
Music & Resilience in Lampedusa
From 18 to 23 March 2025 Music & Resilience joined the festival BOZA! The Mediterranean resounds in Lampedusa, invited by Mediterranean Hope. The M&R crew joined the festival staff working in music with the whole community in a truly transversal way: children and adults, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, the elderly; in schools, on the streets, in libraries, on farms; using idioms, techniques, voices and instruments from every part and culture of the world.
M&R in Ukraine: March 2025
From 1-10 March 2025 Music & Resilience was back in Ukraine together with Mediterranea Saving Humans, to continue supporting those displaced by the war with Russia. Alberto V., Luca and Marco joined Mediterranea’s Emilia-Romagna ground crew completing a crew of 19 for this mission to Ukraine: the fourth for M&R. M&R’s psychosocial musical interventions took place in Lviv at the same locations as the previous mission, further deepening the synergy between the project, Mediterranea and the local people.
Music & Resilience in Ukraine
During 2024 Music & Resilience started to collaborate with Mediterranea Saving Humans on their supply missions in Ukraine. Mediterranea has been operating in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, providing human and material support to refugee populations.
During 2024, M&R participated in 3 resupply missions, adding their musical activities to the donations for refugees in the Lviv area. The latest of these missions was from 29 December to 6 January, involving Alberto, Marco, Maria and Sara.
“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!
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 [...]
Preparations for M&R activities 2023
Marco and Alberto have just returned from a field visit to Lebanon to define the activities for this August. Through a series of meetings it was decided to involve the students in a Summer Camp with a final concert, similar to last year, and also to continue with the psychosocial activity in Wavel camp (in Baalbek). M&R has a new local coordinator, Ahmad, with whom the whole team is looking forward to working together! On the last day of their stay, Marco and Alberto joined Ahmad in a music day at the Beddawi centre (in Tarablus), which involved students from [...]
