Making the difference through music

Blasko Smilevski

Jeunesses Musicales International

• Develop young people through music across all boundaries

• More than 60 countries and 36.000 activities annually

• More than 5 million young people as members

What we stand for

• Access to music• Active participation and citizenship• Self-esteem• Critical thinking• Creativity and innovation• Intercultural learning• Peace building• Mobility

Challenges• Culture perceived as elitist• Culture not being mainstreamed into overall

society or into youth development• Less and less funding• Decline of cultural services• Decline of culture (music) education at

schools• Obstacles to mobility• Lack of support for community level culture• Searching for the social values of culture• Monitoring and evaluation

Orchestras and Ensembles

• World Youth Orchestra• World Youth Choir

• Unique opportunity to participate in world level ensembles and work with top level musicians

• New skills development• Team building• Intercultural learning• Promoters of peace

ETHNO

• System of national camps in Europe and Africa

• Intercultural learning*

• Team building

• Meeting point for young people

• Declared best practice in intercultural learning by the

European Youth Forum

IMAGINE

• Network of local, regional, national and international festivals in Europe and Africa (Music Crossroads)

• Engine of the future music scene• Where teenagers learn “musicianship”• Prepare for professional careers• More competitive on the music labor market• Life skills development

Community development through culture

• UNICEF creativity program as part of Youth centers development (life and livelihood skills) in Macedonia, Russia

• World Bank Children and Youth Development Project

• World Bank Community through Culturedevelopment Project in Macedonia

YOUTH MUSIC DEVELOPMENT

MODEL FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MUSICON LOCAL and NATIONAL LEVEL

INCLUDE THE “BEST” OF JMI PROGRAMSETHNOIMAGINEYoung Audience developmentEnsembles creationAwareness raising through dedicated public campaigns involving youth and musicVolunteer work, community services through music and Charity workYouth centres development (creativity program)Extracurricular music programs in schools (Concerts in schools)

OFFER IT AS SCALE-UP MODEL TO GOVERNMENTSENGAGE LARGE SCALE DONORS