At ages when a confrontation with the world is difficult to manage, it is necessary to have support, suggesting ways to avoid school failure or abandonment of creative life.
Community project dedicated to young people from 12 years old that aims to fight social and artistic exclusion through artistic practices and IMPROVISATION
Registration for the Wind and Percussion Orchestra open until 18 FEBRUARY
Form available HERE
D’Improviso is a project by Sons da Lusofonia, focused on creating innovative tools for young people in order to combat social and artistic exclusion, which will run until the end of 2023 and will work on Improvisation (as studied in but not only) as a tool to be ready to risk a new attitude and new actions towards the community.
Faced with the problems caused by the countless social inequalities found in the most diverse family, school and urban environments in Lisbon, the D’Improviso project intends to install a social laboratory in the various places that, exploring the experience of improvised music, contributes to the construction of active and creative citizenship through the arts.
This project is aimed at young people from the age of 12 – the age at which they are considered to have the ability to consciously risk using different languages – willing to participate in a project based on improvisation. They need to know the traditions, the springboard for risk, in order to have tools to change the environment around them.
The methodology of D’Improviso, in the first phase, will be based on a model of “creative studio“ – where these young people are invited to create together, to work on their involvement in projects and to develop, personally and artistically, their presence in the world. These studios will also be open to the community, underlining the importance of family and friends in the awakening of new audiences.
Performing groups will be created that demonstrate that through music, the arts and global education it is possible to create spaces where different dialogues unfold in the various personal and collective dimensions of their stakeholders. At ages when a confrontation with the world is difficult to manage, it is necessary to have support, suggesting ways to avoid school failure or abandonment of creative life. It is necessary to improvise without fear and, above all, to improvise together.
The training actions will be multidisciplinary, with practical and theoretical aspects, and will focus on the creation and intersection of various artistic areas based on the idea of improvisation in real-time.
About the project, Carlos Martins, director of Sons da Lusofonia, adds: “As people linked to improvisation, it inspires us to defend and disseminate the democracy that is naturally observed, without hierarchies and without pyramidal rules, in a jazz group”.
It is in this context that the Wind and Percussion Orchestra was created under the general direction of Carlos Martins and taught on percussions by the musician Hugo Menezes and on winds by Eduardo Lála.
Through this group, Rhythm will be used as an organization of chaos and Breath as collective breathing. It is intended to improvise the presence of the body and the other and use “Blow and Rhythm” to organize memory, tradition and as metaphors for creativity and spontaneity in movement. This action stimulates, through improvisation, the creation of new artistic, personal and collective structures.
The Wind and Percussion Orchestra will be sustainable, using conventional percussion instruments and others built through the reuse of different materials with the purpose of raising awareness for recycling, even in wind instruments, to facilitate an aesthetic opening to new sounds.
Participation in the Wind and Percussion Orchestra program is free and the instruments are made available during the activities, free of charge.
Participants will integrate the group or a Wind and Percussion cell that serves the city and neighbourhoods in an experimental model in which, by practising these creative methodologies, they are working on personal and citizenship issues applied to social and artistic intervention.
D’Improviso is a project co-financed by the Lisbon 2020 Program, Portugal 2020 and the European Union through the European Social Fund under the Lisbon Regional Operational Program in which the priority axis is to promote social inclusion and fight poverty and any discrimination. It is a project that is part of the operation “Innovative and/or Experimental Projects for the Development of New Local Strategies for Social Intervention” to implement Local Development Strategies (coordinated by POR Lisboa 2020 and GAL DLBC Lisboa) at a general level in the territory of Lisbon.
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