Project
Comparsa: encouraging social participation through music
Overview
Funds Allocated: 65 500,00 USD
Period: 2011 to 2012
Beneficiary countries: Uruguay
Applicant: FLACSO-Uruguay
Presentation
The project "Comparsa" aims to encourage social participation of disadvantaged youth through a series of workshops conducted by the music band 鈥淟a Clinica鈥, that is composed of men and women from poor neighborhoods of Montevideo. The members of the band will share their successful experience and transfer their technical, musical and human relations skills to teenagers from the Maracana slum. The project aims to encourage the introduction of cultural policies focusing on the alleviation of poverty through support for cultural endeavors centered on social participation.
Results
Provided workshops for young people to discover and practice the musical capacities of the 鈥淐omparsa鈥 as a liberating tool in Uruguay.
Main activities
- Conducting workshops to increase human rights awareness among 200 people from the Maracana slum;
- Conducting performing arts workshops and transferring the technical, musical and human relations skills of the comparsa 鈥淟a Clinica鈥 to 150 teenagers;
- Strengthen the learning process by producing and publishing a Learning Guide; and
- Enabling the promotion and diffusion of the project on a long-term basis.
