RAP in Linz
The Band Hinterland gives Rap workshop for unaccompanied minors refugees
[2016]
The number of unaccompanied minors making their way alone to Europe increased enormously in 2015. How can we support this group of young people? How can we help them express themselves in a new country?
Through the cooperation with the NGO Volkshilfe and the Upper Austrian hip-hop band Hinterland arose a wonderful opportunity. Michael Ojo and his partners started a Rap workshop, giving a group of teenagers every two weeks music lessons in ‘Rap’.
The workshop lasted six months in which at the end teenagers mostly from Afghanistan learned how to write their own story, their own song, sing it, and ended up recording it in a studio. You can listen to their song here
Lessons in Music Therapy
A help for teachers of Syrian refugee children in Libanon
[2014-2015]
A cooperation with ‚Associazione Prima Materia in Italy (www.primamateria.it)
Unter der Leitung der Musiktherapeutin Deborah Parker bekamen Lehrer und Sozialarbeiter in der Bekaa Ebene eine Ausbildung in Musiktherapie, die die Grundlage in der psychosozialen Betreuung und Bildung in Musik bildet. Es wurden musikalische Fähigkeiten wie das Hören, Bewegen, Tanzen, die Stimme, Kreativität und Instrumentaltechniken trainiert.
Die Ausbildung dauerte 12 Monate und endete Mitte Oktober 2015.