Each partner organization has been very active with diverse projects dealing with cultural and youth issues, and audiences with difficulties, aiming to promote the interaction among young people and their neighborhood, their family, and contributing to a better socialization, a better engagement in the different processes of learning or developing critical sense.​

2 syrian participants living in Niort

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The children participating to the project arrived in France during the last months. Their basic needs are met, but they still need to learn about French language and culture, in order to interact more with local children, to express and develop their personality despite some difficult time due to war and exile. Some of them had music practice in Syria but couldn’t continue while they quit Syria. Some of them also have traditional background, through singing, or traditional percussions.

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BOSNIA

6 participants from “Music Room” -

Dom Bjelave Sarajevo

The project “Music Room” was conceived as a creative corner in which the residents (Children without parental care) through music, with musicians and teachers, spend their leisure time learning the history of music, musical styles, composers, meeting up with musical instruments, the basics of playing and musicianship, composition, writing songs, learning about the basics of music production, etc. Non-formal Education in the Music Room is the program designed according to the preferences and abilities of residents and directed towards their general musical progress and psycho-physical development. ​

9 participants from “Mostar Rock School” 

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Mostar Rock School acts as a sound factory which each year yields a new generation of trained talents, and serves as a place of exchange and cooperation, a professional musicians' club and an organization that provides a range of support services for young musicians and bands on the rise.

The Mostar Rock School implements its program activities in Pavarotti Music Center in Mostar, where the school offers musical education for youth. Through weekly individual classes, band coaching classes and session bands program, students enhance their knowledge and instrument skills, cooperate and team up with other students in task implementation.

The program is set in a way for them to work with as many different peers as possible, each time working together and sharing the same passion to reach a common goal. In this way, besides the education, Mostar Rock School serves as a place of encounter and cooperation and promotes common values and celebrates diversity.

The quality of the project is recognized by some of the highly respectable educational institutions such as United World College Mostar who has integrated Mostar Rock School's program as one of the five obligatory outreach activities for five of its students annually.

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TURKEY

5 children from Pasaj, Tarlabaşi neighborhood

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The children from Pasaj neighborhood are from different cultural minorities and most of families have been displaced, from other countries or other regions of Turkey, because of economic reasons or conflicts. Diversity is something familiar for them, but this diversity of language can be an obstacle for school learning, as well as cultural patterns, leading some of them to quit school at an early. Some of them work before the age of 16.

Some of them have traditional music practice from their family roots (derbouka, clarinet, violin). And some others or more into urban forms like hip-hop, rap…

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Yeldegirmeni neighborhood has a mixed population: local middle class, many artist workshop, creative people from different countris, Erasmus student, local students, or young workers.

We can observe an interesting increasing cultural life in this district, due to this mixed population and the increasing of alternative art spaces and cafes. But even so, the local children don’t have many opportunities to travel out of Turkey.

Since Amalsia and Terra Musica is located in this neighborhood, we decided to involve some teenagers living there, with the support of TAK, a local organization very active in participatory design involving municipality, inhabitants, and designers.

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11 children from Yeldeğirmeni neighborhood 

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