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.

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.

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.

An interview with mixed band ElectraHeart

November 16, 2020/by Eefje Wevers

While waiting for the moment they can get back to rehearsing and making music again, Tringa interviewed her bandmates of ElectraHeart.

Flashback Friday: Skopje Summer School 2019

April 10, 2020/by Eefje Wevers

Since it’s a bit quieter now, here’s a throwback to that time we went to Skopje! Remember that? If your answer to that question is no, you should keep reading and see what stories Jana has about her time at the Summer School.

How music connected people in 2019

January 9, 2020/by Eefje Wevers

We start the new year by reflecting on the lessons we learned over the past year.

The July training week through the eyes of Jana, our new communications trainee

November 13, 2019/by Eefje Wevers

Hi! My name is Jana, I’m the new communications trainee at Mitrovica Rock School. I’m also a drummer at for the band Algorithm and a huge fan of Pink Floyd. I’m here to tell you about the July training week. It was my first time in a mixed band, so I was very excited for the training and rehearsals throughout the week. At first, my band was called ‘band 3’, but we ended up calling ourselves Algorithm.

Friends behind the camera: Interview with Music Connects filmmaker Stuart Jolley-Socea

July 11, 2019/by Marina Milentijevic

Stuart is a filmmaker and video producer from England, an interviewer, and a massive music fan. One of the founders of Hatched-MV, a music video and documentary production duo, Stuart has supported the Mitrovica Rock School by producing the video for Proximity Mine’s Set Me Free, and is now working on the feature documentary Music Connects: The Real School of Rock.