Perspectives & Collective Action

 
The Ensemble seeks to connect and inform all people who are committed to ensemble music education for youth empowerment and social change.

SHIFT Project Addresses U.N. Sustainable Development Goals for Cultural Sector

04-20-2022

Many arts and cultural organizations are orienting—or have long been orienting—their work toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. A free new resource is here to help with that process: SHIFT—Shared Initiatives For Training.

Agrigento: Studying Strengths and Challenges of Our Field

04-06-2022

Having established a grant program, we have learned from the music educators and researchers we fund. We have attended online conferences and seminars and reached out to a number of musicians whose work has intrigued us. In doing so, we have observed a field that is in a state of uncertainty, shifting and evolving. And, because of this state of uncertainty, we have also observed change taking place.

Violinists Support Ukraine

03-16-2022

In this moving video, 94 violinists from around the world come together to accompany violinists in Ukraine, some in basement shelters, on a Ukrainian folk song.

SIMM: An International Research Platform for Music’s Role in Social and Community Work

03-02-2022

We came to understand that part of the explanation for the relative lack of research could be found in exaggerated rhetoric and redemptionist discourse about the power of music. In addition, many people seemed to think it was simply not necessary to do research on something that is already considered obvious. (My colleagues and I sometimes encountered such reactions in relation to our own scholarly work.) Fortunately, this has started to change recently, and more research projects are now being undertaken in this field.

Online Platform Supports Youth Mental Health with Music

02-16-2022

The Glenn Gould Foundation in Canada wants to help teenagers use music to find their way through these mentally challenging times. To do so, they have created Instrumental, a free online platform designed to help young people process and engage their feelings through music.

UNESCO Publishes Report on Creativity as a Public Good

02-16-2022

This new report from UNESCO—”Re|Shaping policies for creativity: addressing culture as a global public good”—took four years to prepare, reporting how to advance the understanding that creativity is a public good.

Carnegie Hall Offers Music Tools for Young Learners

02-16-2022

We have included a note about Carnegie Hall’s Musical Explorers free online curriculum for early learners before, but with new material, it is better than ever.

Learn about Article 31, Which Supports a Child’s Right to Play

02-16-2022

Did you know that your work with young people directly supports Article 31 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child?

Is Culture the Missing Piece in Our Quest for a Greener and Humane Recovery? Five Ways the Cultural Sector Steps In

02-02-2022

Why does a composer venture into the Arctic? Perhaps because it is one of the places our global climate emergency is on clearest display. Auerbach’s collaborator, Enric Sala, the founder of National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Project, observed that if you look at our Earth from space, the Arctic appears as its heart, a white heart expanding and contracting. The expansions are getting noticeably smaller every year.

Sistema England to Merge with The Nucleo Project

01-19-2022

Sistema England is passing its activities and leadership role to The Nucleo Project in London. Founded in 2013 by Lucy Maguire, The Nucleo Project will now be known as “Nucleo” as it expands its local work and takes on wider youth development roles.

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