Partner: La Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia –
Sector: Social inclusion –
Country: Italy –
Place: Rome –
Year: 2026 –
Project Status: Ongoing –
Type: AMI
THE PROJECT IN SUMMARY
Music workshop for youths with disabilities based on inclusive and participatory musical practices.
THE PROJECT IN DETAIL
Objectives
Consolidating the musical activities/integrated orchestra aimed for disabled youths (psychological but not only) between the ages of 13 and 21 in the care of the SAISH services for autonomy and integration of disabled people.
Increasing their emotional/psychological well being and improving their quality of life, relational abilities and integration into society.
Contributing to reinforcing community in the territory.
Systematizing and diffusing the integrated orchestra model.
Beneficiairies
Approximately 60 people with physical or psychological disabilities (and without) between the ages of 13 and 20.
Activities
The project provides support to the realization of weekly integrated music workshops of 10 months’ duration for a group of between 30 and 60 people. Activities involve about 15 youths between the ages of 13 and 21 in the care of the SAISH services of the ASL RM3 or identified by social services in the territory along with socio-health professionals, musicians involved in socio-cultural activities, support musicians, high school students involved in the PCTO, volunteers or interns affiliated with universities and Scout groups, as well as the choristers and students of the School of Music. Along with the workshops, rehearsals for the selection and orientation organized in small groups will be carried out based on the needs of the orchestra and individual lessons in musical instruments reserved for some youths, depending on their interest and personal abilities. The project was born in the course of widening participation in musical activities that the Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia has been offering for years. In recent years, the Close Orchestra of the Third Kind (ORTT) project was developed: a big ensemble in which adults with disabilities, health professionals, educators and professional musicians work together, experimenting with shared musical practices that supersede old models of assistance in order to build relational, creative and dignified common ground.
