THURSDAY, 8. NOVEMBER

Centre for Social Work, Novi Sad, 13-17 Zmaj Ognjena Vuka Str., midday

THE EL SISTEMA WORKSHOP

Workshop led by: Maja Vukobrat and Goran Milošev

 

El Sistema programme of music education was designed and has been implemented in Venezuela for 43 years. Over the time it has spread to include 60 countries of the world. The workshop is aimed at the marginalised children who are offered support and an opportunity to become leaders who will motivate others, regardless of whether they choose to become professional musicians or pursue a different profession in the future.  El Sistema includes four million children and young people all over the world. Due to its longevity and efficiency, the programme was declared the world’s best inclusion programme by UNESCO-a.

The El Sistema programme encourages creative, intellectual and emotional capacities necessary for learning and offers an active support to the project participants.

In Serbia, the programme has been implemented since 2014 by the association Music Art Project in cooperation with partners and enjoys the support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, National Committee for UNESCO, Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SKGO), and the Team for Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction – SIPRU.

The music workshop of the El Sistema programme are organised in a collaborative effert of the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, the association Music Art Project and the Centre for Social Work of Novi Sad, whose wards are workshop students.

 

MAJA VUKOBRAT

Maja Vukobrat is a pianist and music pedagogue involved in the El Sistema programme, as well as a piano teacher at the Elementary Music School “Josip Slavenski” in Novi Sad. In her career she has won more than 30 awards in national and international piano competitions, among which the recognition of the Laureate of AP Vojvodina for Outstanding Results in the Field of Arts (2014) stands out. She has been engaged as an El Sistema workshop teacher in Novi Sad since the very beginning. She is an active member of the chamber duo “Sunrise”, and is active as a creator of original music for the brands Cafe del Mar Music, M Sol Records, and Dolce&Gabbana, among others.

 

GORAN MILOŠEV

Born in Novi Sad in 1988, Goran Milošev showed his interest in music since early childhood, which led to education in this field. After completing Music School “Isidor Bajić”, he went on to study Ethnomusicology at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he defended his Master thesis in 2014. He started his PhD course in 2017, also at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Ethnomusicology. During his career he has been active in publishing, and mainly education. He has worked in a number of Cultural-Artistic Societies, music schools, and in 2017, through the El Sistema project and the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, he started working in the day care centre of the Centre for Social Work as a singing teacher.