It was a great
pleasure to host a weekend conference in Bergen recently (mid-December 2023) for development of our application
seeking EU support for the Empowering Voices project.
The Empowering
Voices project assembles a consortium of skilled researchers from diverse
academic fields (musicology, sociology, political science, media studies) as
well as prominent musicians from an array of minority traditions in Europe and
abroad, including Sami, Ukrainian, Syrian, and other Indigenous and refugee
minorities. The project consortium includes universities, NGOs, and both media
and arts organizations in Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria,
the Czech Republic, and New Zealand.
We are
excited about this promising project and hopeful it may receive EU research funding.
We are also
seeking funding to extend the Music
Talks project in a new direction, which aims through technology-enhanced music
activities to empower youth voices toward civic engagement in three regions of
Europe: Nordic (Norway), Baltic (Latvia) and Balkan (North Macedonia) youth,
ages 15-25.
The image shown
above is of one of the most celebrated singers of all time, Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan.
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