The different interventions of the experts are now online. You can access here to the videos, also available on a specific playlist of our Play2Grow YouTube channel.

The event, part of the Education Week that organises Tomiño’s municipal youth information office (OMIX),  will take place at 19h CET via ZOOM and it will be conducted by Almudena González, Advanced Professor of Violoncello and Chamber Music. Registration is free.

The event will explore the interrelation between neuroscientific and musical knowledge, as the union between these two fields of knowledge opens up new possible paths both in the classroom and in the family environment.

More information and registrations here.

This prize gives recognition to the innovative approach of the project, making music a key element for the development of key skills and values and all the activities conducted so far by project partner organisations, being also a push for the tasks to be developed within the following months of project implementation.

This prize is also a recognition of all the work done by the non-formal music initiatives in the development of soft skills and values in the youth community through arts and music.

Play2Grow project keeps on the move!

This event, developed under a virtual format due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was an opportunity to share several practices regarding different topics.

The first day was dedicated to boot camps, during which partners got to know Summer and Musical Camps of Tomiño and the CLUSTER Summer Camp by Scuola di Formazione e Orientamento Musicale (SFOM), from Aosta (Italy).

On the next day, several teaching methods were the center of attention, starting with SFOM presenting the Suzuki Method and a Pop & Rock Workshop, and later SonDeSeu Orchestra, from Vigo, that explained their contemporary approach to the oral tradition music from Galicia.

The third day was about band acceleration and management, counting with the testimony of SoL Music Network, Fundación Paideia and School of Rock from Paredes de Coura, also presenting their residency program for emergent bands. All these projects have the main goal to provide their participants entrepreneurship skills to enter the professional music business.

Last day was dedicated to inclusion through music, starting with a presentation about a social project from Madrid by Ecoembes called El Música del Reciclaje, an inclusive orchestra that uses recycled instruments. There was also the opportunity to know Estudo Bonobo, a music school from Pontevedra, which talked about their several projects that aim to promote social inclusion, combining music with other artistic practices. Last but not least, the session ended with two testimonies from the Exchange of Instruments initiative and the Clarinet Ensemble of Goián, both projects from Tomiño.

Participants (trainers and youth workers of music-related organisations) have shared a series of tips and methods for the promotion and provision of key skills on their respective training activities, such as management and communication, teamwork and cooperation, among others, but they all had one thing in common: the effectiveness of teaching music in building a better and more capable society. 

It has also served as an opportunity for project partners to know each other better and interact with other external projects that have been invited to participate in the event, opening the door to future collaborations between them.

We like to think about art as a hole and work through all its questions together.

Violeta Mosquera - Estudo Bonobo

We believe that the best school experience is made on stage, performing to different kinds of audience and, if possible, in a very professional environment.

Nuno Alves - Escola do Rock Paredes de Coura

It is a perfect metaphor for how the resources that made up the life of a culture for many years can be reused in education, culture and even economy itself.

Rodrigo Romani - SondeSeu

The main aspects and methodologies highlighted in the best practices during the TTT meeting will be incorporated in the training contents that are being developed by the project partners. These resources will be available for anyone who wants to apply these practices and methods to any music learning context. 

All these resources, some of them really simple to apply, remind us that, like one of the partners Víctor Gil Serafini from La Música del Reciclaje said in this event, “having nothing is not an excuse for doing nothing”. 

All the interventions of the week are available in the YouTube channel of the project. 

Play2Grow project keeps on the move!

So, the event will have a duration of 5 days, between 16th and 20th of November, and will have the participation of Play2Grow project partners:  Municipality of Paredes de Coura, Municipality of Tomiño, SFOM- Scuola di Formazione e Orientamento Musicale,  EOSA and Space Ensemble. 

During the week, a set of best practices identified by project partners will be explained by their main promoters (https://play2grow.eu/project-outputs/). Those best practices, produced by both project partners and external institutions, will be shared and discussed during the different days of the training. 

Given the circumstances of the covid-19, and the recommendations to turn physical events into online events, the “Train the Trainers” event will take place as a closed event, in a virtual/online format. The twelve best practices will be divided by days, according to the topics: Summer/Boot Camps, Music Methods, Bands Accelerators & Management, and Inclusion through Music. The last day will be for compiling the topics addressed and conclusions. So this is the final agenda:

• Boot Camps- Monday, 16th
  • “CLUSTER” Summer Camp- A Full-Immersion Experience, in Aosta- With Sergio Pugnalin;
  • Summer Camp, in Tomiño- With Andrés Álvarez G.and Marina Ruedas;
  • Musical Camp, in Tomiño- With Pedro Villarroel, Marina Ruedas and Andrés Álvarez H.

• Music Methods- Tuesday, 17th
  • Suzuki Method, by SFOM- With Fulvia Corazza;
  • SFOM POP&ROCK LAB, in Aosta- With Alessandro Maiorino;
  • SonDeSeu- With Rodrigo Romani.

• Band Accelerators & Management- Wednesday, 18th
  • Sol Music Network- With Marta Sánchez Curros;
  • Paideia Fundation, in A Coruña -With Gonzalo Méndez;
  • Escola do Rock and Bands in Residency, in Paredes de Coura- With Nuno Alves.

• Inclusion throught Music- Thursday, 19th
  • La Música del Reciclaje (recycling orchestra) by Ecoembes initiative – With Víctor Gil;
  • Artecalavera Project by Estudo Bonobo in Pontevedra- With Violeta Mosquera;
  • Exchange of Instruments and Goián’s Clarinet Ensemble, in Tomiño- With Adriana and Noelia Carrera.

The last day of the event (Friday 20th) will be an opportunity for project partners to debate on the practices addressed in the Training Week, incorporating the learnt lessons on project Intellectual Outputs.

With this “Train the Trainers” event, a knowledge exchange will be ensured, one of the goals of this project.

Play2Grow keeps on the move!