a Young Orchestra

The project now being presented aims to perform actions to REINFORCE THE ACTIVITIES of the CULTURAL POINT GURI MÚSICO, through the ACQUISITION OF INSTRUMENTS, EQUIPMENTS, ACCESSORIES and ESSENTIAL MATERIALS JUST AS WELL, THROUGH THE REALIZATION OF SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT WORKSHOPS (KEYBOARD, WIND, PERCUSSION, STRINGS, INCLUDING THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES THROUGH MUSIC) to the activities performance FOR WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO ACQUIRE OR TO CONTRACT SERVICES. 

Goal: 

From the activities of the project are implied the objectives of 

Consolidating a Young Orchestra

Main Practice Areas 

We describe  the areas which our program more identifies 

We however understand that it can be framed inside several areas, as we can see:

• POPULAR CULTURES: ( X ) Oral Tradition ( X) Cultural manifestations
• THOUGHT AND MEMORY: ( X ) Musical recover in family
• ETHNIC-CULTURAL GROUPS: ( X ) Brazilian culture in a global scenario
• ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS: ( X ) Music
• CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND FORMATION: ( X ) Courses/ workshops ( X ) Incentive to productive chains
• CROSS-CUTTING ACTIONS: ( X ) Culture and Education ( X ) Culture and Health ( X ) Culture and Field ( X ) Culture and Tourism ( X ) Culture and Youth ( X ) Culture and Childhood

How did the initiative 

We decided to apply the project in the Public

... due to we are a non-profit institution and we intend to continue the activities which are specifically orientated to children and adolescents foucusing in the preventive action through music. We are also focused in the social development as standard comlient citzens. 

Why are you performing the project?

Our association has as mission promote the musical education and group performance of music. We intend the develop the human being in formation.

We believe that culture is an inate expression of the social man. Thereby acting to develop the sociocultural enviroment is also to improve the capacity that the human being has to estabilish relations. The sociocultural development can not be seen as accessory or resundant. But as a pilar of education to build a peaceful and equitable society.

We consider that all the children an adelescent who has been attended the project already bring a cultural baggage with them. This baggage must be respected and enlarged aiming to foment the respect to the differences. Gethering these personalities and various cultures to build a musical group reflects the possibility of living in society.

Music is an activity that is favorable to the intelect development, the attention and the aesthetic sensitivity, in addition to increase the individual's cultural repertoire. But, generally, music an musical education confrontate several problems into the modern societies, charactherized by the speed, superficiality and amount of accessible information. In fact, accordingly to the reality in different countries and periods shows that traditional musical education is a tough and slow process decoupled to the contemporary reality. It is also modelled in the theoretical concepts and virtuosic technic. This model disregard popular music and the informal education aside from disregarding the student background, the daily contact with music or their own pretentions, but just the knowledge and the master demands.

Altogether to the support of the funding institution, COMDICA of Quinze de Novembro, RS, the Municipal Public Power of Quinze de Novembro, RS, the RS Cultural Points Network, we intend to consolidate our first activities pole. So that we shall use the resources to enlarge the cultural and social activities, besides the implementation of new projects. It is priority of our association to insert these social vulnerable children and adolescents where generally a few or none have access to the cultural equipments.

One may see that music is in the humanity origin and associated to other areas of the human knowledge, such as Mathematics and Science. Among the benefits of learning music that had already been proven by the scientifc society, is the fact which the children who develops theirselves in contact to music enlarge the cognitive potential in all knowledge areas.

The cultural activities were first offered occasionally, for lack of financial resources. Nevertheless, the association has performed several activities, but always specific activities without continuity.

This scenario is being changed, due to the funding taken to FUMDICA of Quinze de Novembro, RS, (Projeto 001 https://comdica-quinzedenovembro.webnode.com/rela%c3%a7%c3%a3o-de-projetos-aguardando-financiamento/  ). The project regards the musical initiation with Gaúchos, Brazilian and German rhythms, entitled Social Development and Musical Teaching Program GURI MÚSICO, which belongs to the RS Cultural Points Network. However, we have necessities which have not been contemplated in the funding Work Plan. We do not possess budgetary resources to reinforce de activities which are occuring, but it it important to the project the purchase of certain items (instruments, accessories, air-conditioning to qualify the enviroment).

The institution bylaws contemplates the realization of cultural projects through the federal, state and municipal incentive laws, fomentation segment, because as a private non-profit and non-economic ends association of social nature, it depends on external resources to initiate these projects. It is an institution with 23 year of cultural work, dated to 1997 and it lives with donation, subvention, associated contribution, endownment, subsidy, collection, promotion of cultural activities, exchange, etc.

Some cultural projects developed did not have continuity by lack of resouces, because they have always been offered with no charges, attending children and adolescents at social risck and deffending their rights, includding the cultural ones. In relation to the cost benefit the association is proposing in this porject the implementation and the continuity through a plan of activities which will have all the possibilities to continue just in case of receiving official funding, because is of our interest. 

As to the relation investment ans society it has been already enlightened. Before the methodological proposal the workshop and the existent demand from the community, it has enough elements to become a project with success and social and cultural acknowledgement.

Objectives

What are the results the project intend to reach in a long term? Why was it intended?

Expected results

The choice of music as the artistic language to conduct the program comes from the inspiration on other projects of small orchestras to children as the Venezuelan System of Youth Orchestras, founded by the maestro José Antônio Abreu, and the Guri Project, developed for many years, in more than 300 cities in São Paulo. More than formate musicians, the perspective of the project which we are creating and we are going to locate, is the musicalization and the social inclusion of children and adolescents.

One of the big challanges was undoubtely to to chose the teaching method. Because we shall come across a manner to teach and learn which propitiate a fast learning to estimulate the student to continue the course. In fact we intend some months after the creation and the effective implementation of our first pole, to be able to watch our students performing a repertoire that include song and harmonies created on Gaúcho, German and Brazialian rhythms (roots of the proponent cultural group and the community where it is located), só that they can be recognized by their families and by their community what is going to elevate their sociability and their self-esteem.

As manager and executor of the program we intend to count on the partenership of the public and private sectors, só that we are going to be able to act integrated, articulating the civil society and the scholar community to engage to the program. Further we intend to watch the story of the progject be confused with the story of the association, always innovating the teaching method, qualifying the action estrategy, updating the management, working transparently, this way we are going to be capable to contribute to the civil society. There is a long path to follow, but we need to take the first step the initiate the program, but we are sure that there will also be a lot of to be learned, shared and difused.

The association Cultural Group Som Legal is privately-owned, not-for-profit organisation qualified as Cultural Agent, and it has as essential goal to promote and contribute to the cultural development on the fields of music, theater, dance and other artistic manifestations in a general way as well as any other activity related to culture. The here presented Project will be the main Project of the association, so that we may promote free of charge the basic teaching of music in our municipality.

We are going to have the mission to promote, with excellence, the musica education and the group practice of musica, regarding to the human development of the generations in formation. We intend to: strnghten the formation of childre, teenagers and adolescents as subjects positively integrated into the societyand and also to difuse musical culture in its diversity.

The Project is going to have as assumption the conection to the sociocultural reality of the students, using tools and artical-pedagacical modern theories, intendig to promote sociocultural inclusion and in a near future, through new projects, we can even give sibsidies for the students to continue to study Music. We intend to offer the necessary structure to locate and maintain the fisrt pole of the project in our city, through the present project.

The work that is going to be developed is going to be destined to children and adolescents who belong to boards od social risk, acting to prevent problems such as drug addiction and crime. And also we are going to act to atten the demands articulated to COMDICA . In the activities tha are being developed together with these children and adolescents, aiming mainly to include them through music in the society. We are going to offer free of charge classes of music, within the adequate periodicity as suggested by the Management Comitee. To participate the project is needed to be between 07 and 17 years old, attending school classes and like music. Afeter 06 months of activities in the project we are convicted that the students are going to develop a smal repertoire in group with the basics learned in class. 

Method 

the manner as the activities of the program are being developd aiming to achieve the goals porposed by the action

In order to apply to project it is nedded to take:

• Birth certificate or Identification (copy);
• Proof of school enrollment (copy);
• Proof of residence
• Appear with parents or guardians. 

We have the intention through this project to compound a network to provide services to children and adolescents from the municipality, providing support to other demands of the Public Education Network, to the Municipal Department of Education and Sports, to the Municipal Department of Culture, to the Municipal Departmento of Health, to the Municipal Department of Social Assistance and Housing, to the Guardianship Council, to COMDICA, to the Judiciary Power, to the civil society, integrating actions of interest of non-profit private institutions which work in the areas of health, education, social assistance, physically disabled, housing, rural workers, among others. All these sectors - public and private - are going to be incited to send their demands, to motivate children and adolescents to participate, in addition to be part of the management Committeewhich will monitor and evaluate the actions which are going to be performed by the tenderer together with the Cultural Point.

president of the non-profit-making cultural institution, Mrs. Magali Mazutti 

Results which may occur from the results of this action 

a) Principal: From the activities of the project are implied the objectives of Consolidating a Young Orchestra in the end of the Project, what may elaborate projects which seek its maintainance, by its own annual plan of activities. Perhaps it takes 01 year, 03 years, 06 years or 10 years. But it is still a goal to be achieved

b) Other projects that may be developed by the association from the results of this action:

• Circle of spectacle classes - the Spectacle Classes may be a circle of interactive performances of musical groups recognized by the critics due to their innovative proposals which seek to democratize the the access to the cultural goods to the Project students and to the communities of the municipalitywhere the performances take place. These performances may be offered to the community free of charge
• Scholarship to ex-students of the Projec - this sequential programmay offer scholarships of 12 months in formal institutions of musical education in Brazil or abroad, or even non-formal educational institutions - with participations in festivals and particular classes. Students who have participated for the minimum of 18 months of the project may be able to enroll
• Cultural exchanges - aiming to estimulate the exchange of knowledge and experiences, the project may promote yearly an event of Cutural Exchange with projects of other cities, regions, states or countries, gethering students from other cultural projects. At these events, the participants would perform to students of other projects a varied repertoire, as sample of the developed studies. The arrangements of the songs would be developed by the professional who work in each one of the projects which are participating the exchange, and the regency would be responsability of the instructors who act together with the students. This Cultural Exchange of projects will provide the exchange of experiencies between the students, enlarging the universe of refence of those who are envolved with and will also promote the iteraction among them. This conference not only allows the students to discover the diversity of their realities, but also reinforce the main chacteristic of the project, which is the sociocultural inclusion through the music
• Performances with other artists
• Shows - exposition of images - with the record of the work accomplished in the project - text and images: it may bring stories of the students of the different cummunities, showing a cultural profile of the several places where the students are native, for example, with their dishes, customs, expressions and games
• Production of DVD of the musical concert celebrating the existence of the project, where the students who stand out may perform together with consecrated musicians

The stamp of the oficial public organs of cultural funding, the partenership with public organs and third sector entities may provide the enlargement of the project effect during the years. This way, it will be part of these children, adolescents,their families and the community life.

Other information of the project 

The project will cover different languages, sectors, areas or cultural segments

There is a pedagogical policy to follow with the project: we are going to follow guidelines estabilished by the mission, vision, values and objectives of the association, to develop the actions of the project concearning to the musical an cultural areas. Everythin is closely related to the sociocultural commitment that the Project will have during two years.

It is political beacaus it build a citzen to the society. And it is also pedagogical due to the spaces the association provides, spaces which are educative, democratic, creatives, inclusive, plural, participative, agents of the sustainable development, capable to guarantee the equality of opportunities to al children and adolescents, awaring them of their role as citzens.

The project considers music as a discourse, what goes beyond of considering it as a language. The music becomes a musical talk, where ideas are articulated about the individual and about others in sound structures, promoting and enlarging the comprehension about people and context.

The project will consider the musical discourse of the students and their differences, integrating various musical experiences and allowing decision making which fund the autonomy of each one, even in large or small groups. The association understands that each student brings the own domain of musical comprehension when arrives to the project. The student is not introduced to music becaus he is alread familiar to it, however most of the times he has not formally studied it. Considering the musica disourse of the student is teaching music without aprt it from the reality and of the students' context, avoiding the creation of a "subculture of music" which repertoire do not balance the knowledge and the experiences of the student together with the musical proposals of the Project. Only this way a true sociocultural inclusion takes place, enlarging their musical references.

Seeking the musical fluency in the beginning of the classes, unterstanding that reading and writing are a mean to the end, supporting activities which are really musical: the musical execution (playing an instrument alone or in group); the composition (undertood as any form of musical creation, written or improvised) and the musical appreciation ( a critic and active listening of another person executing music, live of recorded, as well as the classmates and the teacher). Besides, developing the three activities altogether and constantly permits the students to find an atractive, interesting ans constant way to live the music, respecting their own style of learning and also covering the individual expectations. These three activities together with the musical technique and also the reading about music are the teach model of the association.

The project will ease the creators access to the conditions and means to create and produce music 

The students' will and talent together with the edge of the creators (managers of the tenderer association), enhances the necessity of doing more for the community.

The amount of recipient students depends on the combination between the approval of the proposals and the availiable resources. The more resources, more diversity of students and of services the instituition will be able to affer to the community.

The more the support to the project, more talents may have a future in music.