House of Good Tones Srebrenica
Action Research in the Western Balkans: Music and Social Reconciliation
Ismar Porić, Founder/Director, House of Good Tones
Can bringing young people from different cultures together, through arts-related experiences, help to promote understanding, communication, and peace building?
This is a question on the minds of many people working in the global field of arts for social change. Over the past few years, my program, The House of Good Tones in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has partnered with two other Balkan programs (SO-DO, in Zagreb, Croatia, and the Music Art Project, in Belgrade, Serbia) on a research project designed to explore this question—a particularly important question in our part of the world.
Students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia Perform Together
On November 13, a combined orchestra and choir composed of students from three Balkan countries performed a concert at the Vatroslav Lisinski Councert Hall in Zagreb, Croatia. Over 300 students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia came together for this performance; it was the first joint performance of these three Balkan El Sistema programs. The Bosnian program “House of Good Tones Srebrenica” was the organizer of the event.
