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OCA - Orquestra de Cordas da Ajuda

Principal researcher: Paulo Raposo

External principal researcher: Catarina Aidos (Cusca)

Research group: Practices and Politics of Culture


Keywords

Inclusion; Participated art; Community

Funding Institution

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Partners

Associação Cultural Yellow Cusca (coord.); Academia de Música de Lisboa; Junta de Freguesia da Ajuda; Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional; Agrupamento de Escolas Francisco Arruda; Agrupamento de Escolas do Restelo

State

Closed

Start date

07-01-2019

End date

10-12-2021


Abstract

"Transforming noise into music": the Orquestra de Cordas da Ajuda is a project of participated artistic practices directed to 50 children from different socio-cultural contexts in the Ajuda parish that aims to break down prejudices through the specialized teaching of music and collective artistic practice while developing in the participants important personal and social skills for the development of a full and conscious citizenship.