Music Moves | Musik Bewegt

The Musik Bewegt Foundation runs an online donation platform where musicians from all music genres present a variety of non-profit purposes (52 paragraph 2AO) that they really care about. The idea is that not only a few donate big amounts, but together with fans, friends, family, music lovers we can make a change, even by donating small amounts. Because together we are louder.

We also believe that there is a wider social benefit that music entails. Not only can music move us emotionally but it can prevent violence, foster integration processes, enhance social, learning and expression skills and take a key role in identity building processes.

With your support you help us run our online donation platform musik-bewegt.de where we forward 100% of the incoming donations to a variety of non-profit projects.

In this first report we would like to present to you one of the projects that we supported and moved something together. Thank you for your help.

In 2016 some children from Syria and Iraq arrived with inflatable boats on the island of Chios in Greece, not knowing what to expect. Today they play the Ode an die Freude and preferably together with other kids and likely with a “real” orchestra. 

That’s just in brief the story of the project HANGARMUSIK that our Foundation is supporting with your help.

In addition to Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms and Mozart are among the house composers from whom they love to play extracts. So the little musicians have arrived in the European classics and would like to attend a rehearsal in the big yellow house, that’s what they call the Berliner Philharmony. And if you ask them them “why?” they respond to you “because it is such beautiful music”. And making music themselves every day, that’s what the kids want too.

The projcect has so far shown that playing music together with other children from Berlin, Germany and some adults in a small orchestra has a motivating and highly social impact.

For this social and cultural commitment and integrating cause the project HANGARMUSIK has received support from the Musik Bewegt Foundation which made it possible to hold a music camp.

Meanwhile all children who participate in the project have moved out of the hangar, which is located at the former Tempelhof that served as an emergency accommodation in 2016-2017 and moved to other community accommodations in Berlin, Germany.

The experience of the past few months has shown that Berlin children, who otherwise have no opportunity to play in a joy-based orchestra, like to come to HANGARMUSIK. This creates contacts between the children and friendships develop. After rehearsals they eat all together and then the children chat, play or paint together as well. 

In 2018 Musik Bewegt is supporting two new projects that use music to include people with a handicap as well as to further integrate people that had to leave their home countries and that want to find a new home in Germany.

We are very grateful for your support. And together we are louder. 

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