If you would like to run a Songs for Rights workshop in your community, kindergarten, school, youth centre, or any other setting, tell us what objectives and issues you would like to focus on, and we will develop a tailor-made Songs for Rights programme with you.
What does a Songs for Rights workshop look like?
In order to achieve our goals and to reach and engage our target group(s), our projects aim to be:
- Creative,
- participatory,
- learner-centered,
- experience-based,
- activating,
- partnership-based, and
- empowering.
5 Principles of the Workshop:
The five PIJEQ principles (Participation, Inspiration, Joy, Empowerment and Quality) are the basis for the design and implementation of the Songs for Rights workshops. The workshop leaders/experts use the principles to reflect on the content and methods. The principles are also indicators for the evaluation by the participants of the workshops.
Overarching Goals:
- Participants learn about human rights, have the opportunity to share about them, and see them in direct relation to their own lives and environments.
- Participants use music as a means/tool for learning, expression, and participation.
- Participants write, compose, and record their own human rights song.
- Participants have an idea of how to use the song and video produced to advocate for their rights.
Contents:
These contents are introduced in successive steps, largely in blocks and days, in connection with creative musical exercises:
- Human rights, their relation to everyday life, the connection between human rights and music.
- Human rights contents, principles, understanding of human rights basics, articles of UN conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Songwriting and singing practice
- In-studio recording and production of a music video
- Becoming active for human rights (dissemination)
Our approach always aims to adapt the contents to the needs and personal experiences of the group (i.e., by including case studies from everyday life, relevant music styles, etc.)