The activity "We Insist! Social Inclusion through Creative Music" aims to provide music professionals with skills/competences/know-how to work with communities and with refugees and involve them in activities to promote the intercultural/interfaith dialogue, the understanding of cultural diversity and social inclusion and create international cooperation among them.
The activity started on 21-24 Sept 2017 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) during the European Jazz Conference and continued with a two-days seminar organised in Pantin (France) in the framework of the Banlieues Bleues Festival 2018, that included the beginning of a research on the experience of working with communities among EJN members and other organisations to create a report of good examples available to all music professionals. The two meetings were organised with the most committed organisations to share best practices in this field. During the second year, "We Insist! Social inclusion through Creative Music" continued at the European Jazz Conference in Lisbon to sum up the work done so far and prepare for the next steps. A survey among members and non member professionals was launched to collect projects and ideas and its outcomes presented at the 2nd seminar in Pantin (FR) in 2019 where 10 successful examples of community projects were presented and shared among the 25 attendees from 8 different countries. One additional seminars was organised in Birmingham in 2020 (right before the pandemic) in collaboration with Jazz Connective (Creative Europe-funded cooperarion project) and hosted by Jazzlines.
For the new project "EJN- Shaping the Future of Creative Music", funded by Creative Europe with the network strand for the period 2022-2024, three seminars were organised involving new EJN members committed to social inclusion work. For these last two seminars the content was prepared by Francois Matarasso, an eminent researcher and author on the topic. The seminars took place in Barcelona (2022) in the framework of Jazz I AM, in Saint Denis (2023) in the framework of the 40th Banlieues Bleues festival, and in Lisbon (2024) co-organised with EJN member Sons da Lusofonia. The seminar resulted in a SOCIAL INCLUSION POSTER, that gathers principles and guidlines for organisations working on social inclusion and that is the result of the 3 years of work on the theme.
Please find below the reports of all the Social Inclusion seminars that took place so far:
The full report of the Pantin Seminar of 2018 is available here
The full report of the Pantin Seminar of 2019 is avalable here
The full report of the Birmingham Seminar of 2020 is available here
The full report of the Barcelona Seminar of 2022 is available here
The full report of the Saint-Denis Seminar of 2023 is avaialbe here
The full report of the Lisbon Seminar of 2024 is avaialbe here
The activity started on 21-24 Sept 2017 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) during the European Jazz Conference and continued with a two-days seminar organised in Pantin (France) in the framework of the Banlieues Bleues Festival 2018, that included the beginning of a research on the experience of working with communities among EJN members and other organisations to create a report of good examples available to all music professionals. The two meetings were organised with the most committed organisations to share best practices in this field. During the second year, "We Insist! Social inclusion through Creative Music" continued at the European Jazz Conference in Lisbon to sum up the work done so far and prepare for the next steps. A survey among members and non member professionals was launched to collect projects and ideas and its outcomes presented at the 2nd seminar in Pantin (FR) in 2019 where 10 successful examples of community projects were presented and shared among the 25 attendees from 8 different countries. One additional seminars was organised in Birmingham in 2020 (right before the pandemic) in collaboration with Jazz Connective (Creative Europe-funded cooperarion project) and hosted by Jazzlines.
For the new project "EJN- Shaping the Future of Creative Music", funded by Creative Europe with the network strand for the period 2022-2024, three seminars were organised involving new EJN members committed to social inclusion work. For these last two seminars the content was prepared by Francois Matarasso, an eminent researcher and author on the topic. The seminars took place in Barcelona (2022) in the framework of Jazz I AM, in Saint Denis (2023) in the framework of the 40th Banlieues Bleues festival, and in Lisbon (2024) co-organised with EJN member Sons da Lusofonia. The seminar resulted in a SOCIAL INCLUSION POSTER, that gathers principles and guidlines for organisations working on social inclusion and that is the result of the 3 years of work on the theme.
Please find below the reports of all the Social Inclusion seminars that took place so far:
The full report of the Pantin Seminar of 2018 is available here
The full report of the Pantin Seminar of 2019 is avalable here
The full report of the Birmingham Seminar of 2020 is available here
The full report of the Barcelona Seminar of 2022 is available here
The full report of the Saint-Denis Seminar of 2023 is avaialbe here
The full report of the Lisbon Seminar of 2024 is avaialbe here
