Thursday, 9th November, 11:30am
ŠOSO “Milan Petrović”
Workshop led by: ŽarkoSebić and Renata Koler
Assistants: Boris Hložan, guitarand Milan Jančurić, saxophone
The music workshop ‟Zvučni snop” operates within the assistive technology team of the EHS ‟Milan Petrović” school from Novi Sad. Its activities are based on the use of a special musical device, ‟Soundbeam”, which employs sensory technology to create music. The workshop is intended for people with impairments and the disabled people. The main aim of the workshop is inclusion of this population into the cultural life of the wider community, and education and rehabilitation of the workshop students through an active participation in the process of creating and performing music.
The soundbeam orchestra ‟Dobri ljudi” (The Good People) is an integral part of the workshop. The orchestra has made the soundtrack for a short documentary film ‟Ka bih mogla da biram…” (If I Could Only Choose…), which has had noticeable appearances in film festivals in our country and abroad, and successful performances in various public events and festivals.
The workshop leaders are Žarko Sebić and Renata Koler.
ŽARKO SEBIĆ
Žarko got engaged in music at the age of twelve, first as a guitar player and later as a composer. He has been a member of several rock groups. The best known among them was ‟Revolveri” (winners of the 1991 Zaječarska gitarijada), with whom he released two albums, authoring majority of the lyrics and music. Since 2000, he has been active as a producer and composer of children’s music. He has participated in a number of children’s festivals: Banja Luka, Theatre Festival for Children in Subotica, Radost Evrope, Čarolija, Kids Fest, Zmajeve dečje igre, Fedraro, etc. In 2006, with the group ‟Neustrašivi Učitelji” he won the national competition for the Children’s Eurovision Song with the number ‟Let’s Learn Foreign Languages” and represented Serbia as an independent country for the first time at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 held in Bucharest, where the group won the fifth place in competition of fifteen performers from all over Europe, and made a lasting impression in live broadcast followed by about thirty million viewers.
Žarko has been living in Novi Sad since 2010. Since 2012 he has been organising and leading music workshop with a special musical device intended for people and children with disabilities in School for Primary and Secondary Education ‟Milan Petrović”.
RENATA KOLER
Born in Novi Sad in 1976, Renata Koler graduated in class of Prof. Radovan Jandrić from the Fine Arts Department, Section of Printmaking, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. In 2004 she got a scholarship from the KulturKontakt of the State of Austria and graduated from the International Academy of Fine Arts ‟Oskar Kokoschka”, Section of Traditional and Digital Print Arts, in class of Prof. Konrad Winter in Salzburg, Austria.
She works at the School for Primary and Secondary Education ‟Bratstvo” in Bečej as a Fine Arts Teacher. Renata Koler has been leading the SOUNDBEAM workshops since 2013.