News
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 @ 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 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.
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.
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.
Collection of musical instruments for Palestinians in Lebanon
Do you have an instrument you no longer play, hidden in the attic or in the wardrobe?
We are collecting all kinds of musical instruments in good conditions, which we will donate to young Palestinian musicians.
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 [...]
“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 at the Music School of the People Ivan Illich in Bologna
The last musical meeting between Music & Resilience and the Palestinian community in Bologna took place on 5 April at the Scuola Popolare di Musica Ivan Illich. The collaboration with the Ivan Illich school also extended to the following day, for a musical Sunday of internal work by the M&R staff to prepare the repertoire for the next Community Music activities and, in the evening, another screening of our documentary, ‘This is our resistance’.
