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- Primavera Sound Foundation supports the Barcelona NSC 2025 of the European Youth Parliament
The Primavera Sound Foundation is proud to announce its support for the 20th National Selection Conference of the European Youth Parliament (EYP Spain), which will take place in Barcelona from July 9 to 15 with the theme “Reshaping Europe through the window of change.” - Unsilence Gaza
We have normalised seeing war, but not listening to it. We live in a world saturated with violent images. Hypervisibility has anaesthetised us: we see, but we do not react. Sound, on the other hand, can still move us. At Primavera Sound, sound is emotion, connection, pleasure. But sound can also be the opposite: it can become a weapon. With this installation, we want to remind you that in Gaza and other parts of the world, sound is pain. It is fear. It is torture and trauma. Bombings can reach up to 170 decibels. That is much more than the… Read more: Unsilence Gaza - The Fundació Primavera Sound inaugurates the third edition of «Create your own Festival» with an educational and creative focus
At the end of October 2024, the Fundació Primavera Sound welcomed the third edition of its «Create your own Festival» initiative, a project that has evolved over the three years of its existence and continues to strengthen its commitment to education and youth empowerment. Created to offer young people a platform to explore music, technology and cultural creation, this educational programme continues to make a difference in the teaching of new generations of creators. This year, «Create your own Festival» once again involves three secondary schools in Barcelona: IT Besòs, IT ITAE, and IT Maragall. The Baccalaureate students take a… Read more: The Fundació Primavera Sound inaugurates the third edition of «Create your own Festival» with an educational and creative focus - The Institut Escola La Mina and the BeatSchool project feature in a report on RTVE about educational and cultural transformation
On 21st November 2024, RTVE’s programme La aventura del saber dedicated an emotional report to the transformative work of the Institut Escola La Mina and the innovative BeatSchool project, promoted by the Fundació Primavera Sound. In a context in which education and culture play a fundamental role in social development, this project is presented as an example of how music and technology can be powerful tools to foster creativity and teamwork among young people. Located in the Sant Adrià de Besòs neighbourhood of Barcelona, Institut Escola La Mina has managed to deal with the problems of truancy and poor academic… Read more: The Institut Escola La Mina and the BeatSchool project feature in a report on RTVE about educational and cultural transformation
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