REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE
PEOPLE: CLICK HERE
SCHEDULE: CLICK HERE
AT-A-GLANCE:
- Thursday, April 7- Pre Conference Experience at OrchKids Lockerman-Bundy Elementary (leave hotel around 3:15pm to arrive by 4pm)
- Friday, April 8- Conference Day 1 Sessions (9am-6pm); Group Dinner (7:30pm)
- Saturday, April 9- Conference Day 2 Sessions (9am-6pm); Post-Conference Evening Activities (TBD)
BOOK THE CONFERENCE HOTEL: CLICK HERE
- Rooms available at listed rates through March 31, 2016
- Issues booking rooms? Email Chanell Darden- Smith or call 410-694-6020
- Call the hotel after you have your luggage at the BWI airport or arrive at the BWI Amtrak train station. The BWI Doubletree's complimentary shuttle typically arrives within 10 minutes: 410-859-8400.
LETTER FROM THE ORGANIZERS:
The mission of Reframing El Sistema is to facilitate meaningful dialogue between program leaders, researchers, teachers, funders, and other stakeholders about the future of social impact of music and the arts on underserved youth. The conference will prioritize collaborative conversations in sessions designed to challenge participants to re-imagine the ways in which intensive music learning can lead to tangible, positive impact on youth, their families and their communities. Presentations in general will be shorter than in most academic conferences and will incorporate a variety of formats that encourage dialogue among participants. Each session will have a moderator that will solicit assumptions, frame essential questions, clarify viewpoints, and guide conversation around next steps. The participatory nature of the event will afford many opportunities for the session speakers, responders, and conference attendees to participate in collaborative sharing of ideas and perspectives.
Sessions are designed to reveal how our various speakers, panel members, moderators, and participants have come to reframe (re-envision, reimagine, etc.) their thinking on the goals and practices of Sistema-inspired and alternative programs. The conference protocol will frame the work of socially-driven youth music programs within the contexts of the broader worlds of research, music education, and community music, among others. Moderators will maintain the focus on effective approaches to music and social learning throughout the entire conference.
This conference is an opportunity for all participants to reflect deeply on many of the challenges facing Sistema-inspired and alternative initiatives and to embrace those with different perspectives as co-collaborators. Our shared passion for music as a vehicle for social change brings us together and our differing ideas on how to move forward makes us stronger as a community committed to the cause of music education for social outcomes. We invite you to come to University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for two days of shared critical thought on our joint efforts to use music as a vehicle for youth development, which promises to result in new and constructive ideas for how we might more successfully achieve our goals. We look forward to working together to deepen the impact of our collective work while mobilizing our community of researchers, educators, and program leaders to continue to serve as agents for positive transformation for Sistema-inspired and alternative programs throughout the world.
All the best,
Brian and Larry
QUESTIONS?
Email: [email protected]
CO-SPONSORS:
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
The Center for Music and the Arts in Education (CMAIE).
PEOPLE: CLICK HERE
SCHEDULE: CLICK HERE
AT-A-GLANCE:
- Thursday, April 7- Pre Conference Experience at OrchKids Lockerman-Bundy Elementary (leave hotel around 3:15pm to arrive by 4pm)
- Friday, April 8- Conference Day 1 Sessions (9am-6pm); Group Dinner (7:30pm)
- Saturday, April 9- Conference Day 2 Sessions (9am-6pm); Post-Conference Evening Activities (TBD)
BOOK THE CONFERENCE HOTEL: CLICK HERE
- Rooms available at listed rates through March 31, 2016
- Issues booking rooms? Email Chanell Darden- Smith or call 410-694-6020
- Call the hotel after you have your luggage at the BWI airport or arrive at the BWI Amtrak train station. The BWI Doubletree's complimentary shuttle typically arrives within 10 minutes: 410-859-8400.
LETTER FROM THE ORGANIZERS:
The mission of Reframing El Sistema is to facilitate meaningful dialogue between program leaders, researchers, teachers, funders, and other stakeholders about the future of social impact of music and the arts on underserved youth. The conference will prioritize collaborative conversations in sessions designed to challenge participants to re-imagine the ways in which intensive music learning can lead to tangible, positive impact on youth, their families and their communities. Presentations in general will be shorter than in most academic conferences and will incorporate a variety of formats that encourage dialogue among participants. Each session will have a moderator that will solicit assumptions, frame essential questions, clarify viewpoints, and guide conversation around next steps. The participatory nature of the event will afford many opportunities for the session speakers, responders, and conference attendees to participate in collaborative sharing of ideas and perspectives.
Sessions are designed to reveal how our various speakers, panel members, moderators, and participants have come to reframe (re-envision, reimagine, etc.) their thinking on the goals and practices of Sistema-inspired and alternative programs. The conference protocol will frame the work of socially-driven youth music programs within the contexts of the broader worlds of research, music education, and community music, among others. Moderators will maintain the focus on effective approaches to music and social learning throughout the entire conference.
This conference is an opportunity for all participants to reflect deeply on many of the challenges facing Sistema-inspired and alternative initiatives and to embrace those with different perspectives as co-collaborators. Our shared passion for music as a vehicle for social change brings us together and our differing ideas on how to move forward makes us stronger as a community committed to the cause of music education for social outcomes. We invite you to come to University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for two days of shared critical thought on our joint efforts to use music as a vehicle for youth development, which promises to result in new and constructive ideas for how we might more successfully achieve our goals. We look forward to working together to deepen the impact of our collective work while mobilizing our community of researchers, educators, and program leaders to continue to serve as agents for positive transformation for Sistema-inspired and alternative programs throughout the world.
All the best,
Brian and Larry
QUESTIONS?
Email: [email protected]
CO-SPONSORS:
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
The Center for Music and the Arts in Education (CMAIE).