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Project/initiative|Denmark|National

Message to the future

Project title

Flaskepost til fremtiden

Description of initiative

Children learn to navigate life through music activities structured over a story that comes to life through with puppets that are also instruments. The activities and the story are activated by a mission: We receive a message in a bottle - an SOS! We are now to find ways to help. This leads us to join in on a journey with a boy and a girl lost, alone and frozen, but with our help are now sailing towards a new home. During the travel over the endless sea, we visit different places: Ex The planet of dreams, where the little bubble daydream lullabies into escapism and and big dreamer makes greedy. We help the lost children creating strategies to deal with these, as well as Fear, Anger and other emotions that we meet on the two children´s path towards a place where they again can live together with happiness and gratefulness. The exploration of the emotions, and how to handle them so that they become helpers, are done both through movement, drama, singing and playing on instruments.

Further information on the initiative

Themes: Culture and...

Community well-being
Mental health

Keywords

well-being, children, multicultural, cross-art approach

Target group

Children

Cultural field

Music

Timeframe

2014 - ongoing

Sources of funding

Public and private

Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt

A concept developed by professional artist team with a diverse cultural background. They have developed together with pupils in the Music school and other art-schools. Since 2019 the concept has been nuanced and tested with school-starters, both in schools for children with special needs and the regular municipal schools.
More than 20.000 children has been unfolding the concept.

Organizer(s)

Aarhus Musikskole
Denmark
Public / State | Culture