Mitrovica Rock School
  • Home
  • Program
    • Program
    • House Rules
  • Who we are
    • Who we are
    • History
    • Partners
    • Donors
    • Annual Reports
    • Vacancies
  • News & Media
    • News
    • Videos
    • Documentary
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Menu Menu

New Project Launched to Connect Ex-Yugoslavia’s Sonic Youth

June 15, 2018/by Wendy Hassler-Forest

We’re happy to announce the launch of a new project, Music Connects, that aims at connecting youth from diverse communities in Kosovo and Macedonia.

With support by Creative Twinning, a program of Netherlands Enterprise Agency, and other donors, MWB will partner with Fontys Rockacademie, Mitrovica Rock School, Roma Rock School and Music School Enterprise to activate youth and build sustainable alternatives for social inclusion through state-of-the art rock music education, production and promotion.

Increasing Cultural Participation & Cooperation

Music Connects will deliver thousands of music activities to Serb, Albanian, Macedonian, Roma and other youth. We will establish a recording studio in Mitrovica and train sound engineers in Mitrovica and Skopje, increasing cultural participation and cooperation and lowering the barrier for young bands to enter the region’s emerging music scene.

Video production house HATCHED-MV will produce a documentary on the project as an audiovisual testimony to the power of music to connect people across divides. HATCHED-MV previously supported our Mitrovica Rock School by working pro bono to create the music video Set Me Free for our ethnically mixed band Proximity Mine.

 

 

Music Connects includes:

  • Successful Mitrovica Rock School programs: mixed bands, mixed workshops, daily lessons, training weeks, concerts, summer schools
  • The integration of minority groups into the program of Music School Enterprise, Skopje’s leading commercial rock school
  • The start-up of Roma Rock School, following a successful pilot in 2017, aimed at integrating Roma youth in Macedonian society through inter-ethnic music programs
  • Joint summer schools bringing mixed bands of all three schools together
  • A professional studio at the Mitrovica Rock School for use by musicians and bands from both sides, and a home studio at the Roma Rock School
  • Sound engineering training for selected participants at all three schools
  • Training at all three schools by Fontys Rockacademie
  • A documentary film by HATCHED-MV, to be submitted to film festivals in the region and the EU

 

Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn

Recent Posts

  • What we achieved in 2022
  • Our year in 2021
  • Looking back on 2020
  • Rethinking music and reconciliation during a global pandemic
  • An interview with mixed band ElectraHeart

Categories

  • Interview
  • Latest News
  • Music Connects
  • Program
  • Uncategorized
  • Video

Tags

endo feed d fury hatched mitrovica pristina proximity mine skopje street art summer school
© 2022 Mitrovica Rock School - Contact - Privacy Statement facebookyoutubetwitterinstagramsoundcloud
STREET ART AT THE MITROVICA ROCK SCHOOLSKOPJE SUMMER SCHOOL JOURNAL
Scroll to top

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy

AcceptSettingsPolicy

Cookie and Privacy Settings



How we use cookies

We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.

We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.

Google Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience.

If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here:

Other external services

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.

Google Webfont Settings:

Google Map Settings:

Google reCaptcha Settings:

Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:

Other cookies

The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them:

Privacy Policy

You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.

Privacy Statement
Accept settingsHide notification only