musicians without borders: 2024 call-out

Musicians Without Borders’ “Welcome Notes” program aims to strengthen the social inclusion of refugees in Europe through music. This training seeks to contribute towards that aim, sharing MWB’s experience and music leadership methodology. While the training course will, to some extent, be tailored to the experience levels of the participants, course content will include: 

1. Practical working principles that guide MWB's music leadership methodology: Safety, inclusion, equality, creativity, and quality.

2. Principles of nonviolence: Music has the power to connect but in the wrong hands can be used to set one group against another. Training will emphasise a clear set of values behind practical work.

3. Biological, social and psychological effect of music: how music can influence human behaviour on this level. Training will connect music to the nervous system and the ways it can counter feelings of dysregulation caused by trauma, disconnection and extreme experience.

4. Practical approaches to running various types of community music/outreach workshops with a focus on working with people who have experienced displacement.

Participants will gain in-depth training on these principles and practical, guided experience in their application.

We are looking for enthusiastic music and arts practitioners with a range of levels of experience in the community arts sector, and in particular in working with people directly affected by conflict or with lived experience of forced migration. Your practice may be emerging or well-established (or somewhere in between). We would also like to receive applications from people who have a desire to bring music practice into their existing community work.

We have up to 30 places on the course, and trainees will be selected according to their application.

The cost of the training course is £400. We are able to offer 7 funded places on the programme (excluding travel expenses and accommodation), to applicants directly affected by conflict or with lived experience of forced migration, and to students or staff of Leeds Becket University.

The learning will be collaborative and include group work. The training will be delivered in English, but we welcome applications from people who have English as a secondary language.

September 9-13 2024: 10:00am – 18:00pm 
All training will take place at The Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University City Campus, 
Portland Way, Leeds, England, LS1 3PB 

To register your interest for this training programme please complete the following online registration form.
 
Once you have completed the online registration form we will be in touch with further information.