Welcome to join RESONAARI CONCERT
on Monday 10th of May at 19.00 (Finnish time)
RESONAARI SOI –CONCERT WILL BE SENT FROM SAVOY-THEATRE (Helsinki, Finland) ONLINE ON RESONAARI WEBSITE
www.resonaari.fi
(Free of charge)
Please note:
Finnish time 19.00 (7.00 pm) is 18.00 pm Central European Time CET. Check the difference to your time zone carefully and join the concert with more than 700 people audience at Savoy-theatre.
Special Music Centre RESONAARI (Helsinki, Finland) has a music school for people with special needs. Music school offers instrument and band lessons.
Music school has over 180 pupils and all of them have one or two music lesson per week. Resonaari is following Finnish National Curriculum for music schools and has an official music school status in Finland.
Most of the pupils are people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but there are also other special groups like people with motoric, sosio-emotional, learning and concentration difficulties. One speciality of the school are rock bands for senior people.
Special Music Centre Resonaari has a music school for disabled people, but also makes research and development work, produces material, organizes courses and continuing education and keeps up a network for professionals, associations, polytechnics and universities in Finland and abroad.
Special Music Centre Resonaari received a special commendation at the inaugural International Music Council’s (IMC) Musical Rights Awards held during IMC’s World Forum on Music in Tunis (October 2009).
If you want to know more about Resonaari and our work, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please let your friends know about Resonaari concert. You are free to forward this invitation letter. All the best and greetings from Finland!
Tolaram Foundation’s annual tradition is to hold winter party in the end of January. The idea came as during Christmas we all are very busy in attending different Christmas events, but the beginning of the year is quite silent. So we thought to start the year with the party. This year we all – students, their families and friends – gathered on 27th of January. We had a foreign guest from Singapore as well partying with us. Our program started with traditional concert, where everybody could show what they have learnt during the year. Every student could surprise with something. We all loved the activities what could be done together, this time drum band. And of course not mentioning dancing. What party it is without dancing. Many thanks to our music teacher Ene, Gerttu-Maria’s and Anu’s family who helped to
arranged our party table.
Here you can view a material about our project shown in Estonian TV.
All project team wishes a happy, successful and creative New Year!!! 
On 10th of December Tallinn I Boarding School had its annual event – Christmas Fair. It is a nice tradition just before Christmas. Children with different special needs had made a variety of smaller and bigger Christmas gifts from postcards to big doll houses. Not to mention soft pillows, candle-holders and tree decorations. From grandmother’s corner one could find home-made jams and ginger-bread cakes. An important role was also on different cafés. 5th grade for example opened a special waffle station for that event. The photo attached shows the active unit of the class “President of Afganistan“ standing in the middle. This high position was give by the girl from the 1st row. “President “ was actually the Sikh from Singapore, a friend visiting Tallinn for couple of days.
The whole day was full of joy and laughter!
Our 3rd partners’ gathering took place on the 26th to 28th November in Tallinn. Despite of rainy weather the time spent together was fruitful. Project team and Steering group discussed running matters during first 2 days. After that on Friday afternoon we proceeded to Pahkla Capmhill Village to see the life in community of mentally disabled people. This was a great opportunity to all of us to see fantastic work Katarina, the heart of camphill village, has done there during last 17 years. Camphill people gave very warm concert and Katarina introduced afterwards special music instruments they are using. This was part of our Teachers’ Exchange Seminar.
Main part of the seminar was on Saturday attended also by local Estonian teachers. We started with brief introduction of our project Music for All followed by demo lessons of our Estonian teachers. As starting with new pupil seems to be complicated to many teachers we decided to make an experiment and try with 4 kids their very first lesson. Our teachers Ene Järvik and Koidu Ilmjärv had prepared their lesson, but had not seen these children before. The kids did not know what to expect at all. The lesson turned out well.
Anna Petraskevica and Mara Birzina talked about their music school in Riga and introduced different lessons they give to children with special needs. The video of the concert was a great opportunity to see their work.
And then followed probably the most waited part. Kaarlo Uusitalo and Markku Kaikkonen from Finland paid attention to rhythmical exercises. They have 15 years experience of work with special children. Besides their practical hints valuable to every teacher we also learned as bonus some Spanish – bate, bate chocolate.
Showcase Conference was organized in Kulturhuset (Culture house) in Stockholm 15th of September 2009 but exhibitions, presentations and arrangements were built already day before on Monday evening. Music for All project had good place in entrance hall. Annika Claesson from Stockholm helped a lot in all arrangements and Signe Raikstina from Riga was great and big help in building everything ready. Only three different Interreg programs were introduced in Showcase so in that way it was a honor for us to be one of those.
This is project diary. There members can post their ideas etc. about project.
