Symposium 'Mind the Body! Towards Embodied Strategies and Participatory Musicking in refugee accommodations.'

In our full-day seminar we explore how Embodiment can be implemented as a basic condition for inclusivity within participatory music making. In the context of Music Making, Embodiment refers to the integration of bodily movement and sensory experiences in the dynamic process of learning, creating and performing music.

Through interactive lectures by researcher-practitioners (the co-organizers Drs. Tina Reynaert & Prof. Dr. An De bisschop (Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences at Ghent University) & Drs. Georgia Nicolaou (the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and the University of Antwerp) and an expert Prof. dr Ailbke Kenny) and practical workshops, the participants of this research seminar will become acquainted with musicking strategies that involve the body and ultimately obtain a basic, hands-on toolkit to accommodate their practices from an embodied perspective.

To wrap up the seminar, a panel consisting of the expert, the workshop leaders and the organisers will synthesize all insights and elaborate further on questions from participants.