Anis Barnat
EDITORIAL
The Sound of the World
Anis Barnat, Co-founder, El Sistema Greece; Managing Director, Community Arts Network (CAN)
National and international youth orchestra and choir festivals instill a collaborative mindset in their participants and provide all attendees with powerful, lasting memories. But they are time-consuming to organize, requiring logistical know-how and well-considered, family-flexible safeguarding policies for the children and young people. It’s not only tiring; it’s expensive. And program leaders know firsthand that students progress with or without these national or international festivals. So why bother? What do they offer to young people that their own programs can’t provide?
My answer, in a word: perspective.
El Sistema Greece: A Multiform Approach to Multiple Circumstances
Anis Barnat, Cofounder of El Sistema Greece, and José Ángel Salazar Marín, Artistic Director of El Sistema Greece
El Sistema Greece is a free music education program open to all children in Greece. Because our students come from more than 30 different countries, the impact of the work we do, both with refugee children and with the larger local community encompassing both migrants and natives, is twofold.
The Bolivars Bring Their New Sound to Russia
Anis Barnat, Associate Project Manager; Askonas Holt, and Founder, El Sistema Greece
The Bolívars are back!
In December 2019, the 155-member Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, led by Maestro Christian Vasquez, were invited to perform in Russia. It was the first official tour since March 2017 for this orchestra, and a real celebration for their return to the international scene.
