“Ethnofonik” is a comprehensive, interactive training course aiming to provide participants tools to facilitate exchange of cultures to different audiences through music.
Ethnofonik is build as a musical and social training, enabling participants to become effective coaches on musical exchange projects in various contexts from international exchanges to local musical workshops. It is based on example of 'artistic leader' role in Ethno, a program of Jeunesses Musicales International (
https://www.ethno-world.org/).
Through a combination of participatory workshops, group discussions and performances, adopting an interactive approach throughout and a constant reflection and evaluation, participants will work on :
- Reflecting on and sharing previous artistic coaching experiences together with experimenting specific types of pedagogical approaches offered by the international team of trainers (Myriam De Bonte, Nils Peschanski, Vincent Combet, Lucile Jauffret plus speakers).
- Understanding the relevance of this type of coaching to encourage active participation of young musicians, to foster their own meeting and the meeting with local communities.
- Identifying and improving specific knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in artistic coaching and for involving local communities in international projects.
- Putting tools, methods, techniques and materials into practice in real workshop situations.
Participants' work will be also shared with French audiences through open rehearsals for school classes, a series of music workshops on traditional music for young French musicians (designed and run by Ethnofonik participants) and small concerts in neighbouring organisations. The whole Ethnofonik orchestra will also perform three public concerts, presenting original arrangements of traditional tunes from represented cultures.
