WORKSHOP “SOUNDBEAM”
WEDNESDAY, 7TH NOVEMBER
SOŠO “Milan Petrović”, bb Bate Brkića Str.
WORKSHOP – RADIONICA
“SOUNDBEAM”
Led by: Žarko Sebić and Renata Koler
The music workshop ‟Zvučni snop” operates within the assistive technology team of the School for Primary and Secondary Education ‟Milan Petrović” from Novi Sad. The mission of the workshop is to involve people with disabilities into the cultural life of the community through active participation in creating and performing music. Its activities are based on the use of special musical devices, which employ sensory technology to make music available to all.
The workshop is led by Žarko Sebić and Renata Koler, who have been working with their students on their music education and social inclusion through art since early 2013.
The workshop includes the orchestra ‟Dobri ljudi” (The Good People), which is its integral part. The orchestra consists of people with disabilities who have had a number of noted appearances at the Novi Sad Jazz Festival, Hearts in Harmony Festival, Street Artists Festival and other events, where they have performed with professional musicians and DJs. The orchestra has made the soundtrack for a short documentary film ‟Kad bih mogla da biram…” (If I Could Only Choose…), which has been shown at a number of film festivals in our country (The March Festival in Belgrade, Bosifest, Uhvati film, etc.) and abroad (USA, Canada, Holland, Hungary, Romania, Iran, etc.), winning awards from some of them.
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 Festival), with whom he has 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: the Banja Luka Festival, 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 special musical devices 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.
Renata Koler has been leading the Soundbeam workshops since 2013.
