Category: Support and sponsorship
It’s all happening now!
A small window on the extensive Summer Music program now taking place in the refugee camps of Beddawi, Wavel and in Saida, involving around 60 Palestinian and Syrian children and adolescents. This year the team of 16 music teachers, facilitators and students comes from Italy, France, Spain and UK, including trainees from our Erasmus Plus project MARS. Many more photos and stories are available here. A special thank-you to our friends and sponsors who have donated funds and instruments from all over Europe and beyond - your contribution is essential and you are all with us in mind and heart. [...]
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 week: a 10-day Community Music workshop in Beddawi and Saida refugee camps, led by Prima Materia and supported by MARS training students from Italy, Spain and UK.
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 donors, who enable us to continue this work; institutional funding is harder and harder to find, and we rely on the initiative of well-wishers in their continued support. You can donate via our crowd-funding campaign - thank you!
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 this mission in our crowd-funding campaign, which is still open, for anyone else who wishes to contribute to M&R! And many thanks also to Welfare Association Lebanon for the direct funding to Assumoud in support of M&R. […]
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. Support us on https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/music-and-resilience-for-refugees.
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 is part of the final documentation produced for the Region of Tuscany, main sponsor of M&R in the period 2013-2015. Enjoy the movie!
Press Release, Montespertoli, 12th January 2015
“Music and Resilience” Orientation for the 2nd year of International Cooperation On Friday 9th January 2015 in the Town hall, Montespertoli, the guidelines for the 2nd year of Prima Materia’s project “Music and Resilience” were illustrated to the public, who were able to witness how international cooperation enriches the proponent communities as much, if not more than the ‘beneficiaries’. […]
New instruments received!
Three new percussion instruments (two congas and a cajon) just arrived to our headquarter to be sent to Lebanon. They were donated by a musician from Turin thanks to the collaboration with the #faigirarelacultura initiative by Ananse Communication.
