1st International Seminar on Arts, Education and Culture of Peace

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A Colombian-focussed dissemination event held at Central Library Ramón Eduardo D´Luyz Nieto in Bogotá

Colombian young woman playing melodica with person playing bass guitar in the background

Hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Arts, Education and Culture of Peace (Fundación Universitaria Juan N Corpas and District University Francisco José de Caldas), a three day event which main programme was focused on the Music For Social Impact outputs regarding Colombian practitioners and communities.

The event started with a workshop with undergraduate and graduate students about artistic practice as social action that ended with a public space intervention documented and discussed at the ending panel of the event where the connections between different art forms (visual arts, dance, music, among others) where put under critical reflexion.

The second day of the Seminar started with the Keynote lecture “The relationship between transdisciplinarity and overcoming violence: Towards a new educational paradigm” by Carlo Orefice (University of Siena), followed by the main panel called “Music and Social transformation in Colombia”. Main discussions included (1) challenges for social transformation with music from a postcolonial view, and (2) aurality as a principle to understand how social transformation can be achieved from music practices.

After this panel, we held a workshop focused on “How to build networks to develop SIMM (socially-impactful music making) projects?” our workshop consisted in the use of a set of tools based on the concept of the quadruple helix in a gamified dynamic to explore paths of cooperation. Our practitioners learned how to plan inter-sectorial and inter-territorial cooperation around SIMM work.

The day ended with a set of performative talks with Rap Singers from which we reflected on the so called “Estallido social” [Social outbreak] in Colombia during 2019 and 2021 and how music practices where a form of social protest, resistance and condemn towards police abuse and repression.