Commmunity Music workshop for teachers at the Government of Lower Bavaria

Thank you to Heinrich Etzel and the Regierung von Niederbayern (Government of Lower Bavaria) for inviting me to hold a one day workshop on the 3rd of June for teachers and introducing them to Community Music!

Community Music for BA and MA students

I'm excited that the University Hildesheim and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich/Benediktbeuren have both invited me to teach Community Music modules to their BA students!

Erstes Community Music Buch auf deutsch!

I am co-editing the very first publication dedicated to Community Music in the German language together with Burkhard Hill! It will include articles translated into German by Lee Higgins, Brydie Leigh Bartleet, Don Coffman, Lee Willingham, Dave Camlin and Jess Abrams as well as German authors such as Burkahrd Hill, the Munich Community Music Action Research Group, Wolfgang Mastnak, Marion Haak-Schulenburg, Eric Sons, Julia Zanke, Andre Pittelkau and myself. The book will be a broad introduction into Community Music for all German speaking practitioners and researchers.

Germany Issue at the International Journal of Community Music is out!

I am very happy that the current issue of the International Journal of Community Music is out!
For the first time an entire issue is dedicated to Community Music in Germany and I was lucky enough to work with Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill as co-editor for this issue and with Prof. Dr. Theo Harthog in the peer review committee.
The issue contains articles by Prof. Dr. Bernd Clausen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Grosse, Prof. DDDr. Wolfgang Mastnak, Dr. Andreas Wölfl, Prof. Dr. Elke Josties, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill, Prof. Dr. Theo Hartogh and myself.
See more details here.

Community Music Winter School in Zürich, 08.02. - 10.02.2016

I'm looking forward to spending three days at the Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zürich University of the Arts) delivering their first Community Music Winter School together with Lee Higgins, Elisabeth Danuser and Sike Vlecken. More information see here.

Promotionsstipendium / PhD Scholarship

I am very pleased and grateful to have received a PhD scholarship starting this autumn by the Bavarian ministry of education for my PhD on Developing Community Music in Munich :-)

Konzeption und Koordination der Internationalen Tagung Community Music in Theorie und Praxis: 12. - 14.11.15

Die Tagung „Community Music in Theorie und Praxis“ wurde von der Hochschule München, Fakultät für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften, Professur für Bewegung, musische Bildung, kreatives Gestalten, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill ausgerichtet. 
Kooperationspartner waren:

 

·      Münchener Philharmoniker/Spielfeld Klassik (Simone Siwek)

·      International Centre for Community Music, York University (Prof. Dr. Lee Higgins)
·      Bezirk Oberbayern/Popularmusikbeauftragter (Mathias Fischer)

·      Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Alicia de Banffy-Hall)
·      Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München/Abteilung 4 (Kulturelle Bildung, Kitty  von Korff)

A short video by Matthias Fischer about the conference and community music:
https://vimeo.com/146751308
See here for a conference report written by Simeon Smith of MaSamba, Ireland:
http://www.masamba.com/uncategorized/cm-conference-munich-2015-initial-impressions/
Mehr Informationen auf:
https://munichcommunitymusicconference.blogspot.com/

Konzept und Leitung Community Music

In January 2015 the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned me to lead and develop their first community music programme culminating in performances in November 2015.

I developed and lead four projects with musicians from the orchestra and partners in the city.
1. a Community Orchestra in collaboration with Wolfi Schlick of the Express Brass Band
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/musikprojekt-jeder-darf-jeder-kann-1.2676252
2. a music theatre project with the TheaterSpielhaus Munich
3. a project in collaboaration with the Freie Musikzentrum Munich's programm Drumpower, developing a performance based on a story with a primary school
4. a soundscape in collaboration with a primary school and Heinz Friedl of Musik zum Anfassen

Here you can find more information about the projects.

Here a short review about the performances:
http://www.nmz.de/artikel/musizieren-als-prozess-mit-offenem-ausgang

Runder Tisch Musik

On the 23rd of May the Department of Cultural Education hosted the first Round Table Music for practitioners and organisation who work in the field of music education in Munich. I was invited to co-host the day, in collaboration with the director of education of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Simone Siwek) and the Youth Centre Quax (Florian Knappick). I lead an exercise about the principles of cultural education (for example participation, accessiblity, diversity) and briefly introduced my research project on community music in Munich.

Fresh eyes on music

Article published in the Community Music Journal: Sound Sense/ Sounding BoardDecember 1, 2013

You never know a place so well as when you leave it. Alicia de Banffy-Hall and Martin Milner describe lessons for community music and music education from their experiences in other places and settings.

You can download the whole article here.

Moderation Diskussion Kreativquartier München

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January 2014

I was invited to moderate a discussion between the director of the Munich Planning Council, the director of the Munich Arts Council, representatives of the council, local politicians and a cooperative of artists (Labor München), to resolve a conflict regarding the temporary use of empty buildings and the long term strategy for arts and culture in this soon to be regenerated area in Munich.

Music and Movement Workshops at the Münchner Waisenhaus

March 2014

I am leading music and movement workshops with children agend 0 - 4, who live in temporary care at the Munich Waisenhaus.

20. internationaler Netzwerkkongress „Banlieues d ́Europe

20.11. - 22.11.2013

I have been invited to moderate two panels at the conference in Munich "New impulse for education? artistic&cultural education - partizipation - non formal education"

The first panel focusses on creative and artistic education: social and professional integration - participation.
The second panel involves young people and is themed around the compatibility of two systems: pedagogy and art.

You can find the program of the conference here:
http://www.muenchner-trichter.de/mt/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/programmbe.pdf

Music workshops at the Villa Stuck München - Kontaktlinse

04.11. - 06.11.2013

I will work with unaccompanied young refugees, students of the Montessori school Balanstrasse and members of an intergenerational project on a Video project taking place in the Villa Stuck München. Collaborating with video artists from the JFF I will support the young people in creating music and soundscapes for the films that they will create.

Links:

http://www.jff.de

http://www.villastuck.de

http://www.villastuck.de/vermittlung/13/kontaktlinse02.htm

Mittwoch, 4.12.2013, 19 Uhr

KONTAKTlinse

FRÄNZCHEN, das Kinder- und Jugendprogramm des Museums Villa Stuck lädt Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich ein zu unserer Filmpräsentation der KONTAKTlinse.

Wir präsentieren die Ergebnisse des integrativen Medienworkshops KONTAKTlinse, an dem unbegleitete, minderjährige Flüchtlinge der IsuS- und der SchlaU-Schule mit Münchner Schülerinnen und Schüler der Integrativen Montessorischule an der Balanstraße und Seniorinnen der dortigen Werkstatt der Generationen teilgenommen haben. Die zwei dreitägigen Workshops fanden im Februar on tour, in zwei städtischen Kunsträumen für Gegenwartskunst, Artothek & Bildersaal und lothringer 13_halle, und im November im Museum Villa Stuck, statt. Die Jugendlichen drehten in kleinen gemischten Teams Filme, und machen erste Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Drehbuchschreiben und Kameraführung. Dabei lernen sie modernes Equipment und neueste Schnitttechnik kennen. Die soziale Begegnung der Jugendlichen stand dabei im Vordergrund. Dabei sind acht Filme entstanden, die Teilnehmenden wurden unterstützt von Alicia de Banffy-Hall, Tommy Jackson, Fabian Krodel, Thomas Kupser, Stephanie Lyakine-Schönweitz, Oskar Peter, Stefan Wischnewski.

KONTAKTlinse ist eine Veranstaltung von FRÄNZCHEN, dem Kinder- und Jugendprogramm des Museums Villa Stuck in Zusammenarbeit mit dem JFF e.V. – Institut für Medienpädagogik und der Kunstvermittlung der städtischen Kunsträume.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Kulturreferat der Stadt München, children for a better world e.V., der BuntStiftung München und der Sammlung Goetz.

Community Music at the Freie Universität of Bozen, Italy

08. - 09.11.2013

I have been invited to talk about community music at the conference 'Musik hilft und heilt' at the Freie University of Bozen in Italy.
The presentation will focus on Community music: concepts and perspectives from practice.

http://www.unibz.it/de/public/university/EventsOverview.html?NewsID=78083

Here you can find the programme of the conference:
http://www.unibz.it/de/public/university/ViewIWPBlob.customhandler?newsID=78083

Consultancy for the Department of Cultural Education of the Arts Council Munich

From July 2013 onwards:

I am collaborating with the Department of Cultural Education of the City of Munich on the development of a professional development programme for community artists in Munich. As a kick off workshop for the programme we invited Vivi Balby to run a workshop on theatre of the oppresssed and Phil Mullen to run a whole day workshop on community music on the 5th of July 2014.

Vierte Münchner Bildungskonferenz - 4th education conference Munich 14.05.2013

I lead a body percussion warm up and did a presentation about community music and creative learning in schools for the 250 participants of the conference.

Music Workshops for Year 4 and 5 Waldorfschule Wolfratshausen

April 2013 
Alicia will lead music workshops for year 4 and 5 at the Waldorfschule Wolfratshausen.
Year 4 will focus on singing and movement and Year 5 will focus on a percussion project.

Research Project Community Music - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen

September 2012 - March 2013

Collaboration on the Research Project Community Music: How can the concept of community music be applied to the German music education context?

Management, development and implementation of an international symposium hosted by the university, 21. - 23.02.2013 in Munich: "Community music and music pedagogy: collaborations, intersections, and new perspectives."
Lecturing with Lee Higgins of the module: Music Project Management for primary school student teachers and music education students.
Research assistance to Prof. Dr. Lee Higgins.

Evaluation research paper for Curious Minds

May 2011 - October 2011

Alicia is writing an evaluation research paper of the West Cheshire Creative Partnerships Enquiry Programme.

For the past two years Curious Minds has worked with the University of Chester and schools in Cheshire on projects that involved trainee teachers on their 2nd year teaching placements and external settings such as Delamere Forest, Action Transport Theatre, Rangers, Catalyst Science Discovery Centre etc. working together on an enquiry question of the school. The research will involve interviews with students, creative agents, Curious Minds directors and programme manager, University staff and teachers.

She is examining:

- the partnership between the University of Chester and Curious Minds and its impact on future teachers;

- how the work influenced trainee teachers and their approach to future teaching and learning;

- the benefits for trainee teachers of observing well-established teaching staff adapting their ways of working

- the benefits for trainee teachers of observing and taking part in partnership working

- the benefits for trainee teachers of linking a standard setting placement (i.e.school) with a non-standart setting placement through action research

- how learning outside the classroom can impact on pupils' learning and teachers' practise;

- what benefits the programme had for the teachers;