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Ready for a musical world tour? The 15th edition of Ethnofonik will bring you on a musical voyage around the world !
Twenty musicians from across the globe will meet each other for the first time in the Grand Paris Sud region and they won’t arrive empty handed!
“Ethnofonik” is a comprehensive, interactive training course aimed at empowering the participants with the tools to facilitate the exchange of culture to different audiences through music. The Ethnofonik course will provide the participants with musical and social training, enabling them to become effective coaches/mentors on music exchange projects in various contexts from international exchanges to local musical workshops.
Through a combination of participative workshops, group discussions, and performances
and adopting an interactive approach throughout and a constant reflection and evaluation, the participants will work on :
- Reflecting on and sharing previous artistic mentoring experiences together with
experimenting with specific types of pedagogical approaches offered by the
international trainers;
- Understanding the relevance of this type of mentoring to encourage active
participation of young musicians, to foster their own meeting and the meeting with
local communities;
- Identifying and improving specific knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in artistic
mentoring and for involving local communities in international projects;
- Putting tools, methods, techniques and materials into practice in real workshop
situations.
Ethnofonik includes :
- work within the group of musicians for Ethnofonik 2026 guided by facilitators
- artistic & educational outreach with the local community
Within the Ethnofonik group, participants will teach, learn, and arrange tunes together,
learn about group dynamics and mentoring, have the chance to act in specified roles such
as Artistic Mentor, and be supported in this learning with guided reflections and feedback
throughout the process.
Also during the training course, Ethnofonik participants will engage in public-facing
artistic & educational outreach activities including traditional music workshops for French
musicians (designed and run by the Ethnofonik participants), small concerts in
neighbouring organisations, open rehearsals for school students to attend, and three
public concerts as a band made of all the Ethnofonik participants, performing traditional
tunes from the participants’ backgrounds in the arrangements created during the group
process during the week.
Are you a musician interested in issues related to teaching and education ?
The call for participants 2026 is now open. Please get in touch with us !
Info and contacts > Download the call
Concerts
Young Audiences
For school groups only
Info and booking : N.MARTINO@grandparissud.fr
Public Concerts
15€/10€/7€ Booking is open : click here
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