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Our year in 2021

December 17, 2021/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

As the end of the year approaches, we like to look back and reflect on our impact during the year. And, despite the challenges that the pandemic poses for the entire cultural scene, 2021 was a highly active year for our school.

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Looking back on 2020

December 18, 2020/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

2020 challenged the world in ways that no one expected. And the pandemic took away some of our most powerful ways of coping: the ability to share music, and to come together.

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Rethinking music and reconciliation during a global pandemic

December 9, 2020/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

We had a good thing going. Not to toot our own horn, but only two months ago an embassy representative approached us saying she had heard we were “the best project in Kosovo.”

Mitrovica Rock School worked: the project had shown that music can create new paths to mutual understanding, even in a highly complex post-conflict environment like Mitrovica. Students of the school, young people from the divided town’s Albanian and Serb communities, found a place where politics could be shut out and where ethnic identity was secondary. What matters at the Rock School is what you can do, what you like and what you’re like.

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“Music is the best tool for breaking stereotypes and prejudice”

June 5, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

An interview with Roma Rock School founder Alvin Salimovski

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Rock and roll helps us rise above the political madness: interview with Liza and Emir

April 29, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

By communications trainee Marina

Emir and Milizza are the directors of Mitrovica Rock School. They work hard in the office scheduling programs and activities. Both Emir and Milizza are very busy people, but they gave up some of their time for an interview to tell us about their job, the Rock School, plans for the future and many other things. Read what they had to say down below!

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“People here are more invested in the people around them”

April 2, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

Communications trainee Marina interviewed Fontys Rockacademie students Eefje Wevers and Bo Knippels (Netherlands) on their experience in Mitrovica

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ElectraHeart: “Girls run everything!”

March 4, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

By Mitrovica Rock School communications trainee Marina

ElectraHeart is a mixed band from Mitrovica Rock School. They consist of five members: singer and songwriter Rina, guitarist and backing vocalist Tringa, Jelena, who plays bass in this band, guitarist Egzon and drummer Baton. They are a dream team of talented and musically educated young Mitrovica people whose dreamy pop rock sound is incredibly fresh and recognizable.

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Mixed Rock School band releases debut album

February 15, 2019/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

PRESS RELEASE

Originally posted on musicianswithoutborders.org

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
12 January 2019

Southeast Europe’s first rock school, the Mitrovica Rock School, is excited to announce the release of the debut album “Voices” from the band High Frequency. Made up of Albanian and Serb youth from the divided city of Mitrovica and a lead singer from Skopje, Macedonia, the album is the first from an ethnically-mixed band to come out of the school, since its founding in 2008.

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Mixed band High Frequency records album

January 11, 2019/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

By communications trainee Marina (18), front woman of mixed band Feed D Fury.

On December 20, mixed band High Frequency went to Skopje to record their first studio album.

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Ending the year by rocking out Gracanica

January 6, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

By communications trainee Marina (18), front woman of mixed band Feed D Fury.

On December 28, four mixed bands headed to Gracanica for a final concert of the year.

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