In its 7th season, the Budapest-based Symphonia Foundation welcomes 1816 pupils in 22 different locations taught by 90 qualified music teachers.
On 31 August 2021, the Symphonia Foundation’s school was invited to perform at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, the most renowned concert venue in Hungary, on the occasion of the Edisonplatform award ceremony, an initiative collecting best practices of preparing children for the future – including education, social and skills development. The initiative is collaboration between NGOs and high profile businesses and experts from across Hungary.
Brass Bandits is a documentary that follows one of Symphonia Foundation's music programmes in a primary school in Miskolc, Hungary. Director András z. Surányi shot in one of the segregated schools between September 2014 and September 2016 - on 15th of September 2021, Brass Bandits received a screening as part of the Cinefest International Film Festival in Miskolc.
Watch the documentary with English subtitles below:
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A group of 14 students and teachers are going for a study trip to Poland, thanks to a grant by the Wacław Felczak Foundation. They will be visiting a partner school in Warsaw (Niepubliczna Szkoła Muzyczna I Stopnia Fundacji ARTE w Warszawie), specialised also in the musical education of vulnerable children. The visit will include concerts as well as exchange of methodologies and pedagogical tools to best help the pupils involved.
You can watch how Symphonia's Alsózsolca school students are getting ready to meet their Polish partner-institute on this link.
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