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Almost ready for M&R August 2023!
At Prima Materia this Saturday we hosted a large part of the Italian team to organise the imminent departure for Lebanon. The Community Music team met to work on the repertoire that will be studied with the Palestinian students and performed at the final concert on 19 August, and we [...]
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 [...]
Music & Resilience @ CSO Pedro, Padua
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 [...]
M&R at the 9th European Music Therapy Day in Cesena
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 [...]
M&R at the 3rd Mediterranean Music Therapy Meeting
On September 24th the 3rd Mediterranean Music Therapy Meeting took place in Padua, a conference organized by the "Giovanni Ferrari" music therapy school of Padua, in which music therapy professionals from the Mediterranean area met to discuss the topic "musical spaces in music therapy, between the analog and digital world". [...]
Summer Camp 2022
The 2022 Summer Camp was a great success, with 2 full weeks of music making and fun for around 80 children and adolescents from the camp communities of Beddawi, Ein Elhilweh and Baalbek, together with PM's team of 10 volunteers, between professional musicians, music therapists, journalists and student trainees. Special [...]
HELP US TO TAKE OFF IN AUGUST!
To donate, in support of our 2022 M&R Summer Camp in lebanon - thank you! PM has just held the Orientation week-end for the Italian team who will support the 2022 M&R Summer Camp, which will take place during the first 2 weeks in August, involving over 100 children and [...]
Preparations for the Summer Camp 2022
Prima Materia is ready to go with the new Summer Program after two years of COVID-induced prohibitions. Two members of our team (Deborah & Alberto) are completing the field visit to all the centers involved in Music & Resilience for planning details and also training where possible. We were never [...]
Community Music workshops, December 2021
2 members of the team, Chiara Trapanese and Marco Lolli, were back in Lebanon for a week last December, running workshops with the Community Music groups in the Assumoud centres of Eni Elhilweh (Saida) and Beddawi (Tripoli). The workshops consolidated the developments of our [...]
M&R and MARS in Madrid!
On 10-11 November 2021, we were invited to present our projects in Madrid, during the 6th Conference organized by AEOS (the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras) under the title: "AVANTI: a future full of music!" Our representative, Deborah Parker, participated in a round table on the theme: "Education, Diversity [...]
Psychosocial activities and teachers training in Baalbek
For the last part of this year's activities in Lebanon of the Music & Resilience project, Alberto and Chiara worked three days in the El Jalil refugee camp in Baalbek, in the Bekaa valley. Music & Resilience was the first musical project in this camp, and it started its activities [...]
Rock ‘n roll in Saida!
Piano, guitars and cello Our crazy percussionists! Yesterday, 13th August, Alberto and Chiara completed the first part of their work this year with the Palestinian community in diaspora in Lebanon, with three days of music in the Saida refugee camp, Ein el Hilweh. The workshops involved a large group of [...]
