The Ensemble House
A New International Center for Reconciliation through the Arts
Ismar Porić, Artistic Director of House of Good Tones, as told to editors at The Ensemble
Few would disagree that imagining and constructing something good for humanity, in a place where vast harm has been done, is a creative act. Therefore, the completion of The Ensemble House in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina can be seen as one of the world’s great creative triumphs in recent years.
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.
