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Notes from Drums for Peace-Meeting
Sunday 23.11.2008

All implemented projects have been very succesfull,
but below is some notes on new experiments
and / or discussions which occured during the reporting.
1.
GLOBAL SOUNDS exchange in youth-centre Cassiopeia was an experiment on making a specific music-exchange. The 4 workshops was: percussion, stomp, human beat-box and ”how to be on stage” and the was made on rotation basis.
Besides this was offered band playing for everybody on 3 different levels according to the many informations on instrument, band experience, yers playing an instrument etc. Collected before the exchange. and also additional workshops on percussion, stomp and humna-beat-box was made for those who wanted so.
A public presentation / concert was made with the different band groups as well as the workshops.
2.
BRIDGES exchange in DK got approved 2.000 € for paying a free-lance-journalist produce articles on the exchange and the DfP-methodology and to secure that they were printed in relevant newsletters. They were brought 3 times in pedagogical union newsletters and probably seen by 30.000 Danish professionals.
3.

TERE exchange in Estonia resulted in this discussion on "Youthpass", which is the ”Youth in Action” recommended certificate
- Especially difficult to make during an exchange because of the part ”Individual activities undertaken”, which takes time to write ad time to edit to max. 500 characters.
- It takes more than 2 hours to print the youthpasses for a full exchange group.
- Shall it be possible to change the youthpass after the exchange?
- Workshop text can be made on forehand. One for participants in percussion workshop, one for the dance-group etc. – and so also the whole youthpass can be printed out before the exchange takes place.

It is not necessary with a general common DfP-praxis on youtpass, and a further discussion will be made next year, when more people and organisations have experiences on the production of this.
4.
RHYTHM seminar was focussing on the influence of rhythm on our mind and body and combined the practical hands on drumming with inputs from music-therapy, psychology a.o. All participants had to reflect and describe own experiences.
The seminar was also part of the DfP -documentation strategy.
5.
ACTING AROUND exchange in Wales resulted in a discussion on the the public presentation part of a DfP-exchange:
- DfP-guidelines tells: ”Drums for Peace workshops are mainly based on the following model:
The workshops are brought together and shown to an audience. This can be an invited audience such as a school, or the public.”
- ”Process or Product” is not the issue for this discussion. The presentation is an important part of the process and especially when working with disadvantaged people.
o The presentation brings the full group together
o Rotation and no presentation is unknown methodology and difficulkt to explain to potential participants, who expect the usual DfP-concept.
6.
Many projects (Ariadne’s Thread, ASA 08 + our meeting) and especially some of the not approved projects had experienced missing or very slow and late feed back with information to DfP-coordinator.
A wellfunctioning network demands a continuosly communication from each organisation.
7.
A procedure is needed on how to find additional partners in case a project needs some after the DfP-meeting.

8.
 The meeting had a long discussion on alcohol after the presentation of ”MOJN” exchange in DK for which the Swedish group on forehand had agreed not to drink any alcohol during the week.
- Important issue to talk more abou
- Maybe offering non-alcohol youth-exchanges in same way as we are not focussing on specific age-groups (13-18 or 15-19 etc.)
- More focus of the preparation of the group before the exchange
    To DfP-meeting Monday 24.11      
  To DfP mainsite 2009 Calender  
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