Thursday 23 May 2013

ISME Sistema SIG news update #8

This excellent news for our colleagues in Venezuela deserves immediate circulation:

Venezuela to Expand Its El Sistema Music Program ... Merida, May 22nd 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Founder of Venezuela's world famous El Sistema music program, Jose Abreu, met with President Nicolas ... venezuelanalysis.com/news/9511

 

Worldwide Literature Review: Andrea Creech is leading on this review, which is currently underway. If you haven't heard from Andrea or haven't been in touch with Andrea yet, do email her to make contact: Andrea Creech (andrea.creech@ioe.ac.uk)

 

North America:

Research: This link will take you to the LinkedIn page and to a document the Sistema Fellows have been working on relating to Assessment and Evaluation. Well worth a read. If you have any problems, please contact me and I will send you the report as a PDF attachment. Alternatively, try clicking here.

 

EL SISTEMA GREATER BOSTON SHOWCASE to Unite Nine Music Programs, 6/1 Broadway World Eight revolutionary El Sistema inspired music programs will join forces for The First Annual El Sistema Greater Boston Showcase on June 1st at the Franklin Institute in the South End. It promises to be a monumental performance celebrating the ...

 

 

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Tuesday 21 May 2013

ISME Sistema SIG News Update #7

ISME Newsletter
This ISME Sistema SIG News Update number 7 coincides with the publication of ISME's 60th anniversary newsletter. Keep a look-out for your copy if you haven't received it yet. Details of the 31st ISME World Conference on Music Education, Port Alegre, Brazil, 20 to 125 July 2-14 are included.

Submissions (deadline midnight – your time – 1 October 2013) are requested. Details will be provided on the ISME website www.isme.org/isme2014

Please also let me know if you are submitting Sistema related plans or are intending to bring a performance group to the conference. Please also continue to let Theodora, Graça and me know if you have any ideas for how we should celebrate our Sistema SIG during the conference. Just to know you are planning to attend would be good so that we could arrange a social event too.

Below is a range of information that has come to my attention since sending out the ISME Sistema SIG News update #6.

Europe:

Sweden: Johanna Ericsson, Communicator with Stiftelsen El Sistema Sverige has sent this YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQtwBB76c4

England: Ensemble IHSE's quarterly newsletter is available here


North America:
Congratulations Rachel! - Exploring El Sistema Lexington KY – Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras is pleased to announce the creation of the North Limestone MusicWorks, a new El Sistema-inspired program ...sistemafellows.typepad.com/my.../congratulations-rachel.html

El Sistema founder Jose Antonio Abreu to make two appearances at Cleveland ... Jose Antonio Abreu, the Venezuelan founder of the groundbreaking music-education program known as El Sistema, will make two appearances -- one open to the public -- next week at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he will receive an honorary ... See all stories on this topic »

Perfect harmony Stockton Record Harmony Stockton - a collaboration of Stockton Unified, University of the Pacific, the Stockton Symphony and the United Way - is modelled after Venezuela's renowned El Sistema program, which uses music to help lift students from poverty. This programme "seeks to lift college-going rates in Stockton and the surrounding Central Valley by offering resources to some of the region's most academically vulnerable children."

New Edmonton symphony program brings music to inner-city students Edmonton Journal The YONA-Sistema (Youth Orchestra of northern Alberta) is inspired by the El Sistema program developed almost 40 years ago in the poorest areas of Venezuela. Its founder, Jose Abreu, saw music as "an agent of social development because it transmits ...
See all stories on this topic »

South America:

Brazil: Read this fascinating Q&A with Ricardo Castro, Founder and General Director, NEOJIBA – Núcleos Estaduais de Orquestras Juvenis e Infantis da Bahia, Brazil - in The Guardian: If you could pass on one word of advice to people setting up similar projects, what would it be? To follow the El Sistema principal philosophies - have the government committed to your project, never forget excellence, and promote social development and integration throughout group practice.

Venezuela: 3 minutes of video you won't want to miss: El Sistema • National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela ...El Sistema • National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela • Simon Rattle ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs99k_QrBmU

Or this one is just 1 minute 30 seconds but worth a listen. El Sistema • Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra • Christian Vásquez ...El Sistema • Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra • Christian Vásquez. SalzburgerFestspiele·75 videos ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBCSHAZdJM

Or 1 minute 40 secs of Dudamel: El Sistema • Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra ... - YouTube El Sistema • Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra • Gustavo Dudamel .... Gustavo Dudamel conducts ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrB5FmP45Dk



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Saturday 11 May 2013

Call for Expressions of Interest 2014 - 2015 Global Summit in Arts Education


The World Alliance  for Arts Education International Drama/Theatre and Education Association International Society for Education through Art International Society for Music Education
World Dance Alliance



Founded in Viseu, Portugal, 2006










Call for Expressions of Interest
2014 - 2015 Global Summit in Arts Education

Introduction

1.      World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) is a global arts alliance between international arts education organisations:
•    International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA)
•    International Society for Education through Art (InSEA)
•    International Society for Music Education (ISME)
•    World Dance Alliance (WDA)

2.      WAAE aims to utilize the strength and knowledge within trans-disciplinary, trans- national and trans-cultural arts education associations to the benefit of arts education in the 21st century. WAAE advocates for arts education at strategic political fora and levels, providing expert advice to pertinent key policy and decision makers such as UNESCO
and WHO whilst concomitantly seeking, consulting on and distributing policy through respective networks (see our website at: www.waae.info )

3.      Since WAAE's inaugural gathering in Portugal, 2006, WAAE has worked in partnership with a range of international organisations who have hosted the gathering of world leaders in arts education strategic thinking.  These global summits include:
•    2007    Hong Kong         -     Partners: WAAE; IDEA; Hong Kong Institute of
Contemporary Culture; Hong Kong Government.
•    2008    Taipei                 -     Partners: WAAE; InSEA; National Taiwan Normal
University; Taiwan Government.
•    2009    Newcastle (UK) -    Partners: WAAE; Creativity, Culture and Education; Newcastle Gateshead Initiative.
•    2010    Seoul                  -     Partners: WAAE; UNESCO; Korean Art Culture and Education Service; Korean Ministry of Sport and Culture.
•    2012    Rovaniemi          -     Partners: WAAE; The University of Lapland; Arctic
Sustainable Arts and Design.


4.      The WAAE has been instrumental in the proclamation by the 36th session of UNESCO's General Conference that  the 4th week of May celebrate International Arts Education Week. The inaugural celebration took place May 21 – 27, 2012 (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and- celebrations/celebrations/international-weeks/international-arts-education-week-2012/). In 2013 the Internatonal Arts Education week takes place between May 20 – 26.



Global Partners 2014/2015

5.      Following a highly successful meeting in Rovaniemi Lapland in November 2012 the WAAE is planning a Global Summit for 2014 or 2015 and seek Expressions of Interest from Arts organisations and institutions to work in partnership to host such a summit.

6.      WAAE strategic action groups have focussed on arts education needs in Research, Advocacy, and Networking. The envisioned global summit will build on the work of these action groups to consider: the ways in which the Seoul Agenda has been implemented in local, national, and global contexts; to review the relevance of the development goals for arts education; and, to identify further needs and strategies for the advancement of arts education across the globe.

Calls for Expressions of Interest

7.      The WAAE invites potential partners to work with WAAE in hosting a Global Arts Education Summit that will champion the nature and role of arts education locally, nationally and globally.

8.      We seek a host who will assist in providing the necessary infra-structure to plan, coordinate and fund a gathering of approximately 80 world leaders and strategic thinkers for a 3-day summit in 2014 or 2015.

9.      WAAE offers the weight and profile of its combined alliance representing 100,000s of arts educators and artists.  We will work WITH hosts in raising their profile and addressing local, national and international issues of relevance such as:  pedagogy, curriculum, cultural sustainability, and community engagement.

10.    Our history of esteemed partnerships has brought benefits to both the local host organisations and the WAAE members.
11.    Please complete the following Expression of Interest form and return to: Professor Margaret Barrett
School of Music
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072
Australia


12. FINAL DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Friday June 14, 2013.


Expression of Interest



for
Hosting a Global Arts Education Summit in Partnership with
World Alliance for Arts Education





1.      Name of host and funding organisation:


2.
Contact Person:
Name:


Position: Email: Address:


3.      Statement of interest or focus in Arts Education:  Please attach a 800 -word statement that addresses: Summit theme; Organising committee; Outline program structure; Social program; Funding sources (anticipated and/or confirmed).

4.      Preferred dates and location for hosting the Arts Education Global Summit

Place:

Dates (approximately):

5.      Please list local arts education groups/institutions who have been consulted and wish to be involved.

6.      The above organisation is able to commit funds to the 2014/2015 WAAE Global Arts
Education Summit:

•    Fully                           Yes / No

•    In part                         Yes / No

7.      The above organisation is able to provide in-kind support (or other support) Yes / No

Signed: Date:


Please email to:           Margaret Barrett
School of Music
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072

Friday 10 May 2013

ISME Sistema SIG news update #6



Thank you to colleagues who have sent information - please continue to let me have your news.

ISME World Conference 31st ISME World Conference on Music Education: Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20-25 July 2014 Please also let me have news of how you would like ISME Sistema Special Interest Group to form part of the conference.

·         Are you intending to send a performing group?

·         Are you intending to make a spoken presentation?

·         Are you intending to offer a poster presentation?

·         What topics would you like ISME Sistema Special Interest Group to discuss?

ISME Sistema Special Interest Group page on the ISME website. Visit http://www.isme.org/special-interest-groups to see further information. May thanks to Evangelos for his work on this. Do let us know if you have ideas for developing our presence.

 

Sistema Global: Contact ISME Board member Andrea Creech (andrea.creech@ioe.ac.uk) to let her have information contributing to the Worldwide Literature Review commissioned by Sistema Global. Andrea is undertaking this review in collaboration with fellow board member Patricia González-Moreno, University of Chihuahua and Lisa Lorenzino from McGill University in Canada and Grace Waitman.

Europe:

Czech Republic: Olga Jerabkova of The Harmonie Foundation in Prague is glad to be able to inform us that Maestro Abreu has received the Trebbia European award 2013 for support of the culture and the arts, which is annually awarded in Prague. Please see the following link for more details: http://trebbia.eu/en/trebbia-2013/.

England: Many congratulations to In Harmony Liverpool, which will be playing (and singing) at the Royal Albert Hall this summer as part of the main Proms series with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

Sweden: Eric Booth has kindly shared the following essays with those of us who were at the excellent conference in Sweden:

The Generous Laboratory ; The Fundamentals of El Sistema;

 

In Harmony Sistema England announce a cooperation agreement with El Sistema

 

New Zealand: Sistema comes to Whangarei - Music changing lives Northland Independent Community; The concept comes from El Sistema which was started in the slums of Venezuela in 1975 by Dr Jose Abreu. The movement is internationally credited with improving lives and lifting the aspirations of participants and their families, reducing crime ... See all stories on this topic »

 

USA: NEC board presentation - Exploring El Sistema This blog tracks the journey of the current class of the Sistema Fellows Program at the New England Conservatory. Home · Archives · Profile · Subscribe ...sistemafellows.typepad.com/my.../nec-board-presentation.html; Exploring El Sistema: May 2013 Tracking the adventures of the current class of the Sistema Fellows Program at the New England Conservatory.
sistemafellows.typepad.com/my-blog/2013/05/index.html

 

 

 

Richard J Hallam MBE

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