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appreciate the music and literature and to show them the library as a place where they can
go and find interesting books.
Next phase of the program started in spring/summer 2018 in woods and city parks. We
performed for the kindergarten children at the manifestation Blanket for dreams. It was an
initiative of the NGO Smile for all which organized volunteers who were reading stories
for school and kindergarten children in all city parks and other green areas of the city. It
was a good chance for all teachers to apply their class to make a small field trip to the
nature enriched with storytelling. After that, we were invited by the organizers of the
manifestation Plants and Gigs4 to set two workshops in the woods of Tuškanac. We
adapted The Night Gardener for both children and their (grand)parents together, which
inspired us to keep this idea for the future (especially for the story The Dog and the Double
Bass, which is originally written with the idea to include children and their grandparents as
audiences).
In the academic year 2018/2019 as a group, we decided to make less workshops mainly
because of my absence at the university in the winter semester. However, we decided to
present the concept to our colleagues at students forums in the region, in order to
encourage students and teachers of music academies to try the same in their contexts.
Thus, we performed stories at music academies for blindfolded audiences because we
wanted to put the audience in the “shoes” of visually impaired audience. In April 2019
students Mirta Borovac and Barbara Laliæ presented the paper5 they wrote about the Notes
of Love at the 5th International Forum of Music Pedagogy Students at the Academy of
Music, University of Pula. At the same event, we performed The Night Gardener and
conducted a follow-up workshop for university students and their teachers based on
creative artistic and pedagogical tasks related to the story development. After student
forum in Pula, the program was presented on the manifestation Podijelimo znanje at the
Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo in May 2019.
In the academic year 2019/2020, we decided to go deeper into each aspect of the program
and explore more formats and audiences. With The Dog and the Double Bass we
developed original storyline and explored more space and sound solutions that could work
with visually impaired and blindfolded audiences. In October and November 2019 we had
three workshops. The first one was in the Vinko Bek Center. Two workshops were
organized6 and performed in Ljubljana: one of them was prepared and performed for
visually impaired children in Centre IRIS – Centre for Education, Rehabilitation,
Inclusion and Counselling for the Blind and Partially Sighted. Another one was
performed in the same institution for bachelor students of the music education study
programme of the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana. The aim of the workshop
with blindfolded students and teachers from the academy was to encourage them to start
4 Plants and Gigs (Biljke i svirke) is an interactive music festival which since 2016 transforms green areas
of Zagreb into unique concert spots. Organizers of the festival set out pianos in the nature, inviting citizens
to come and play. Festival is gathering professional classical, jazz and rock musicians who set their
concerts in the nature (https://hr-hr.facebook.com/pg/biljkeisvirke/about/?ref=page_internal, access:
2.1.2020).
5 Laliæ, B. and Borovac, M. (2019). Note ljubavi: uèenje zalaganjem u zajednici kroz community music
praksu. In: Drandiæ, D. and Andrijeviæ, T (Eds.), Kompetencije studenata glazbene pedagogije – teorijski
i praktièni aspekti. Pula: Sveuèilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, pp. 44-52.
6 The whole organization was done by Branka Rotar Pance, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.
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appreciate the music and literature and to show them the library as a place where they can
go and find interesting books.
Next phase of the program started in spring/summer 2018 in woods and city parks. We
performed for the kindergarten children at the manifestation Blanket for dreams. It was an
initiative of the NGO Smile for all which organized volunteers who were reading stories
for school and kindergarten children in all city parks and other green areas of the city. It
was a good chance for all teachers to apply their class to make a small field trip to the
nature enriched with storytelling. After that, we were invited by the organizers of the
manifestation Plants and Gigs4 to set two workshops in the woods of Tuškanac. We
adapted The Night Gardener for both children and their (grand)parents together, which
inspired us to keep this idea for the future (especially for the story The Dog and the Double
Bass, which is originally written with the idea to include children and their grandparents as
audiences).
In the academic year 2018/2019 as a group, we decided to make less workshops mainly
because of my absence at the university in the winter semester. However, we decided to
present the concept to our colleagues at students forums in the region, in order to
encourage students and teachers of music academies to try the same in their contexts.
Thus, we performed stories at music academies for blindfolded audiences because we
wanted to put the audience in the “shoes” of visually impaired audience. In April 2019
students Mirta Borovac and Barbara Laliæ presented the paper5 they wrote about the Notes
of Love at the 5th International Forum of Music Pedagogy Students at the Academy of
Music, University of Pula. At the same event, we performed The Night Gardener and
conducted a follow-up workshop for university students and their teachers based on
creative artistic and pedagogical tasks related to the story development. After student
forum in Pula, the program was presented on the manifestation Podijelimo znanje at the
Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo in May 2019.
In the academic year 2019/2020, we decided to go deeper into each aspect of the program
and explore more formats and audiences. With The Dog and the Double Bass we
developed original storyline and explored more space and sound solutions that could work
with visually impaired and blindfolded audiences. In October and November 2019 we had
three workshops. The first one was in the Vinko Bek Center. Two workshops were
organized6 and performed in Ljubljana: one of them was prepared and performed for
visually impaired children in Centre IRIS – Centre for Education, Rehabilitation,
Inclusion and Counselling for the Blind and Partially Sighted. Another one was
performed in the same institution for bachelor students of the music education study
programme of the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana. The aim of the workshop
with blindfolded students and teachers from the academy was to encourage them to start
4 Plants and Gigs (Biljke i svirke) is an interactive music festival which since 2016 transforms green areas
of Zagreb into unique concert spots. Organizers of the festival set out pianos in the nature, inviting citizens
to come and play. Festival is gathering professional classical, jazz and rock musicians who set their
concerts in the nature (https://hr-hr.facebook.com/pg/biljkeisvirke/about/?ref=page_internal, access:
2.1.2020).
5 Laliæ, B. and Borovac, M. (2019). Note ljubavi: uèenje zalaganjem u zajednici kroz community music
praksu. In: Drandiæ, D. and Andrijeviæ, T (Eds.), Kompetencije studenata glazbene pedagogije – teorijski
i praktièni aspekti. Pula: Sveuèilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, pp. 44-52.
6 The whole organization was done by Branka Rotar Pance, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.
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