During the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December, the consortium from ‘’One Love One Drum: Drumming for Inclusion’’ project gathered in Braga for the final event of the project. The event took place in the city center of Braga (Praça da República), in the very busy Christmas square promoted by the Municipality of Braga, which …
Final event of ‘’One Love One Drum, Drumming for Inclusion’’ Lire la suite »
The « Batala Atenas » percussion band, since its inception, has shown great sensitivity for the community, minorities and under-development neighborhoods of Athens. At every opportunity, through music they promote unity, solidarity and inclusion in society. In 2011, a few months after the Batala Atenas band was created, a surprise presentation took place at the « Theater of …
Batala Atenas – Playing for the hearing impaired Lire la suite »
Our own experience at either hosting or taking part at events in support of disadvantaged children and young people has gone beyond seeing the benefits of trying something different and making a great noise, it’s been immeasurably rewarding, leaving us and all with a great feeling of bringing happiness and smiles to our community and …
Every year we are invited to play at the opening ceremonies of « Emil Open » in Brno (Czech Republic). The Emil Open are the Official European Youth Games for the Disabled.Our participation consists of a parade through the city of Brno. We also invite and encourage Emil Open participants to play with us. Participants love our …
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Representatives of Batala Braga, Batala Atenas and Batala Paris met in Athens in May 2022 to record the videos to help teaching/learning percussion. For 4 days, we worked to break down each rhythm, instrument by instrument, so that these videos could be used to learn the main Brazilian rhythms. Each rhythm is broken down: it …
In preparation for the International Meetings of Batala groups which took place in June 2011 in Haute-Loire (Auvergne-France), the Batala Massif group initiated the “Batala Bidons” project in the summer of 2010 with young school children in the area. This project was initially initiated and led by Huw Rowlands, then Musical Director and employee of …
The consortium of ‘’One Love, One Drum: Drumming For Inclusion’’ has met in Paris, in February, for the second Transnational Meeting of the project. The meeting itself had the purpose of finalizing all the content to be included in the course, to debate digital platforms to use for the course and the Batala Mundo platform …
Another meeting, getting closer to the results! Lire la suite »
‘One Love One Drum: Drumming for Inclusion’, the KA2 project financed by EU Erasmus+ program under ‘’Partnerships for Creativity’’, had its first meeting in Braga, Portugal between the 28th and 31st of October. This was the first physical meeting of the project, the Transnational Meeting No.1 or, as we call it, the official Kick-Off Meeting …
March of 2021 was the month where it all started for the project ‘’One Love, One Drum, Drumming for Inclusion’’, an European Project under Erasmus+ programme, in specific, the KA227 – Partnerships for Creativity (Youth Education). This project was born within the International community of BATALÁ MUNDO which promote cultural diversity and inclusion. Three of …
