Music for Freedom aims to facilitate the social reintegration of inmates and ex-inmates through the creation of workshops and music production labs.
The project aims to facilitate the social reintegration of inmates and ex-inmates through the creation of (also professionalizing) workshops and music production labs related to the artistic world of hip hop, particularly Rap and Beatmaking. Hip Hop culture has proven to be a powerful means of involvement, awareness, and self-expression for young people with fewer opportunities all over the world and especially for those at risk of deviance, already sentenced or on probation.
The project has the following goals:
– Support well-being and personal expression educational and rehabilitation processes of convicted young people through non-formal, musical, and technical education programs in European (and Turkish) correctional facilities.
– Improve the skills and intervention models of educators (generally youth workers) inside or outside of prison to incorporate and expand these music education processes in the criminal justice system.
– Stabilise and increase the introduction of spaces/workshops for musical experimentation and production considering the differences between national criminal justice systems, in correctional facilities, both those for juveniles (up to 18 or 22 years of age) and adults (18 and over).
– Increase redemption opportunities for young people with criminal convictions or on probation, detention or post detention through the development of occupational, artistic, and technological skills in the hip-hop market.
– Offer new professional and job opportunities to young inmates or former inmates, developing synergies and collaborations with music production and art companies.
The project has recently entered its second year of activity: after having completed, in July last year, the drafting of the “Framework of competences for the production of hip hop music in prison”, it is currently working on the creation of the second project output, the ‘Manual for the training of audio editing methodologies and technologies in prison’, which will be presented in October 2024
Music for Freedom is co-funded by Erasmus+ Program, Agenzia Italiana per la Gioventù
The project is led by Arci Liguria and has partners in Belgium (Asturia), Germany (aufBruch), Italy (EFA), Romania (CPIP), Portugal (ETIC) and Turkey (izmir Denetimli Serbestlik Müdürlüğü).
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