LovEarth Through Art, musical activities for youth workers

"LovEarth Through Art, musical activities for youth workers” is a training course which aim is to give participants the opportunity to learn, share and develop new methods of social inclusion for young people through music activities. The idea of this training course was born, first of all, to spread as much as possible the knowledge to create and lead music activities.
“LovEarth Through Art” is a concept born and developed in Italy, starting from 2009. The first idea was to create musical instruments out of garbage, passing through the idea that people is part of the environment and it’s possible to involve more and more people through art, sharing experiences, creating new piece of art. Next step of this path is Berlin with a specific project on music.
Three international projects have been organized in Benevento, Italy, and here is the 4th in Germany.

The common belief among people is that music is an activity just for people who studied it in the early stages of their life and, therefore, not for everybody. The rest of the people are often considered just passive listeners and end-users. So the first objective is to train youth workers and social workers into the idea that the active part in music-making is for every-body who has a body and a voice. Another important reason why we elaborated this project is the little importance and role that music plays in the European youth and informal environment. Through experience, we have noticed that trainers and youth workers rely on music workshops which turns out semi-improvised, without the knowledge and the training tools necessary to get the best out of their learners. The professionalization of youth workers and trainers through the creation of full scale music workshops is another triggering motivation of this Training course.
The aim is to create a learning experience with positive out-puts in terms of creating workshops about listening, working with groups, body rhythm, rhythm of music, making music, connecting with the others.

Objects of the projects are: to learn and share good practices about music activities for young people; to develop new methods of social inclusion and involvement of young people without much music experience in playing or knowledge about rhythm; to learn how to use body and voice as musical instruments; to be aware about group dynamics; facilitation skills; to share knowledge about music instruments and how to play them; to build partnerships for future projects.
The core objective is that we want to create a common method of social inclusion of young people through music, starting from the basic concept and knowledge of music and by using the natural elements that each person, each of us has: voice and body.
Music is the concentration of all positive values and the key to unleash them into realization.

Travel budget: by EU distance calculator for trainings
Full description and more info is in downloads
How to apply: By Application form in downloads
Dead line for contact: 20 September 2014