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The seminar will bring together practitioners and scholars involved in the Community Music activities from around the world to celebrate and explore community music practices.
Join us in Tbilisi , Georgia
The Community Music Activity Pre-Conference Seminar Inspiring Curiosity: Celebrating Diverse Voices of Community Music will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia at the Teachers Professional Development Center from July 10-14, 2018.
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River and currently home to around 1.5 million people. Since it was founded in the 5th century on the crossroads between Europe and Asia, it has been an important transit route for both people and trade. Today Tbilisi's long and diverse history is reflected in its culture and parrticularly its architecture, which comprises a mix of medieval, classical, Middle Eastern, Art Nouveau, Stalinist and Modernist structures. |
The CMA Pre-Conference Seminar theme acknowledges the diversity of community music practices and responds to the local context in the Republic of Georgia, a region with a rich vocal culture deeply rooted in folkloric traditions, religious practices, and the academic and professional musical world. Whilst we invite contributions on every form of music-making, our focus on the voice allows us to examine the similarities and differences in approaches across the globe and create a through line to these four days of practice and dialogue. Voice can be interpreted in multiple ways, and it relates to the ISME world conference focus of the relationship between our embodied lifelong journeys and music.
Inspiring Curiosity: Celebrating Diverse Voices of Community Music
Theme One: Tradition, Locality, and Cultural Identity
We are interested in similarities and differences among our multiple cultural community music practices and about independence and self-empowerment through folk music. We encourage country-specific explorations of how community music in that place has evolved over time, and the different events (cultural, political, educational) that have influenced this. This theme provides support for the CMA to continue mapping the historical antecedents and pathways of community music around the world.
Theme Two: Partnerships and Social Cohesion
Where are the unlikely alliances, the curious relationships that surprise and change the way that we think and respond to context? What community music practices support social cohesion? What practices have the potential to damage social cohesion? How can community music support change? How is policy developed, funding secured, and power relationships negotiated?
Theme Three: Well-being, Health, and Human Rights
Can we test our foundational principle that community music engages the participant in health, wholeness, and wellbeing? The right to education, a safety net, free speech, and security – how do these human needs exist in international communities? To what extent have we been given the permission to challenge the local (family and political) directions? What is our role in these times of crisis, major social transitions and upheaval?
We are interested in similarities and differences among our multiple cultural community music practices and about independence and self-empowerment through folk music. We encourage country-specific explorations of how community music in that place has evolved over time, and the different events (cultural, political, educational) that have influenced this. This theme provides support for the CMA to continue mapping the historical antecedents and pathways of community music around the world.
Theme Two: Partnerships and Social Cohesion
Where are the unlikely alliances, the curious relationships that surprise and change the way that we think and respond to context? What community music practices support social cohesion? What practices have the potential to damage social cohesion? How can community music support change? How is policy developed, funding secured, and power relationships negotiated?
Theme Three: Well-being, Health, and Human Rights
Can we test our foundational principle that community music engages the participant in health, wholeness, and wellbeing? The right to education, a safety net, free speech, and security – how do these human needs exist in international communities? To what extent have we been given the permission to challenge the local (family and political) directions? What is our role in these times of crisis, major social transitions and upheaval?
Venue
National Center for Teacher’s Professional Development : 1 Gmir Kursanta str., Tbilisi, 0167 Georgia