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TATI Offers Leaders Fellowship Program
TATI (Teaching Artist Training Institute) is launching its inaugural Leaders Fellowship Program, a six-month professional learning experience for leaders of community music and El Sistema-inspired programs.
Apply for ESUSA’s Youth Leadership Initiative
El Sistema USA’s Youth Leadership Initiative brings together young musicians and program leaders in the US to develop and spread leadership and life skills.
Hosting Fire Up! in Athens: A Week of Collective Practice and Exchange
Angeliki Georgokosta, General Manager, and Lydia Margari, Ensembles Manager, El Sistema Greece
When the Academy for Impact through Music (AIM) suggested bringing the Fire Up! residency to Athens, we felt both excitement and a strong sense of responsibility. Our space is deeply meaningful to us; El Sistema Greece is a vibrant community grounded in trust, creativity, and daily collaboration, and inviting colleagues from across Europe into that community felt acutely personal. The residency itself was intense and demanding, with constant transitions between workshops, rehearsals, peer exchanges, and shared experiences. It also afforded us a rare opportunity: a chance to be students in our own teaching spaces, and to see those spaces through the eyes of our peers.
In Oregon, a More Neighborly Approach Brings Joy
Neal Spinler, Executive Director, BRAVO Youth Orchestras
The majority of the population is in Portland, at the northern border, with most everybody else residing along the “I5 Corridor”—Interstate 5, a major north-south highway that runs from Portland to California. BRAVO serves a region at the very northern tip of Portland; JOY serves students in Yamhill County. North Portland is a diverse blue-collar area with shipyards, warehouses, and port terminals; Yamhill County is the heart of Oregon’s famed Willamette Valley, a region known best for its fabulous wineries. But while the county boasts fancy vineyards and tasting rooms, it is also filled with farms and the hardworking farmhands and families.
Just 46 miles apart, our landscapes could not be more different. And yet the work we do could not be more aligned.
Aprender enseñando con los Firebirds de AIM
Pablo Millanes, Especialista en AIM y Estrategia; Director de Relaciones Externas y Marketing, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid, España
El pasado mes de julio, el calor del verano portugués y el mar de Lisboa como telón de fondo dieron la bienvenida a un variopinto grupo de profesores y jóvenes músicos de programas musicales de acción social de más de diez países. Entre acentos variados y miradas curiosas, se hizo palpable una energía compartida: la emoción de los encuentros cara a cara entre personas que sólo habían podido interactuar virtualmente durante sus cuatro meses de preparación. También se palpaba el entusiasmo compartido de personas que hacen lo que más les gusta: enseñar y hacer música juntos.
