Musicians Without Borders
War Divides, Music Connects
Musicians Without Borders (MWB) organizes music activities to offer comfort, distraction and fun to children who are in Dutch refugee centres.
In collaboration with MWB, the CvA offers a training to introduce CvA teachers and students to MWB's approach to making music with vulnerable people, especially children, in forced displacement. After an introductory lesson, the participants accompany the MWB team to various refugee centres in the Netherlands to observe music workshops for the children there and assist where possible. This allows the participating teachers and students to form a good idea of the situation in refugee centres and the teamwork and improvisation skills that the work there requires.