Press and campaigns assistant (COMMUNICATION jmi)
Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is the largest youth music NGO in the world, created in Brussels, Belgium in 1945 with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries". With a vast array of activities, JMI has established four priority activity fields: Young Musicians, Young Audiences, Youth Empowerment and Youth Orchestras & Ensembles.
With member organizations currently in 45 countries and contact organizations in another 35, JMI is a global network providing opportunities for young people to engage with music. The JMI network reaches over 5 million young people aged 13-30 per year through some 36,000 activities, which embrace all styles of music, and coordinates cross-border exchange opportunities on the international level.
JMI places empowerment, with its emphasis on social inclusion and cohesion, at its core. For over 60 years, JMI has been 'Making a Difference through Music', using the power of music to bridge across social, geographical, racial and economic divides and creating a platform for intercultural dialogue.
With member organizations currently in 45 countries and contact organizations in another 35, JMI is a global network providing opportunities for young people to engage with music. The JMI network reaches over 5 million young people aged 13-30 per year through some 36,000 activities, which embrace all styles of music, and coordinates cross-border exchange opportunities on the international level.
JMI places empowerment, with its emphasis on social inclusion and cohesion, at its core. For over 60 years, JMI has been 'Making a Difference through Music', using the power of music to bridge across social, geographical, racial and economic divides and creating a platform for intercultural dialogue.
MY TASKS
- Content creation and management, interaction with users, optimise, maintain, monitor and lead the platforms and any marketing strategies carried out in Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo. I manage several Facebook pages:
- Blogging
- Press campaigns experience: elaboration of newsletters.
- Define strategies and run external and internal communication activities, including the contents of intranets and other communication channels.
- Website editing, updating and translation:
- Write reports and online research for Music Crossroads.
- Translations from French into English and Spanish for the Fédération de Jeunesses Musicales Wallonie-Bruxelles (Elsa Verhoeven, project manager: [email protected]).
- Ensure public relations and contact to journalists.
- Content creation and management, interaction with users, optimise, maintain, monitor and lead the platforms and any marketing strategies carried out in Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo. I manage several Facebook pages:
- Blogging
- Press campaigns experience: elaboration of newsletters.
- Define strategies and run external and internal communication activities, including the contents of intranets and other communication channels.
- Website editing, updating and translation:
- JEUNESSES MUSICALES INTERNATIONAL SITE: Jmi.net
- Yama-awards
- Ethno Exchange
- Fair play Anti-Corruption (Promote and translate into French, English and Spanish.)
- Write reports and online research for Music Crossroads.
- Translations from French into English and Spanish for the Fédération de Jeunesses Musicales Wallonie-Bruxelles (Elsa Verhoeven, project manager: [email protected]).
- Ensure public relations and contact to journalists.
ARTICLES
JM75 SONG + CONTEST
www.jm75.com/en
Without music there is no party! Niels Boutsen, better known by his stage name ‘Stoomboot’, and the songwriter Théo Eloy have joined forces to compose a tune dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Jeunesses Musicales Wallonie-Bruxelles and Jeugd en Muziek Vlaanderen. The title is “Een liedje voor de wereld” (A song for the world) and the result is a big success! (...) READ THE FULL ARTICLE: http://jm75.com/en/contest/
www.jm75.com/en
Without music there is no party! Niels Boutsen, better known by his stage name ‘Stoomboot’, and the songwriter Théo Eloy have joined forces to compose a tune dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Jeunesses Musicales Wallonie-Bruxelles and Jeugd en Muziek Vlaanderen. The title is “Een liedje voor de wereld” (A song for the world) and the result is a big success! (...) READ THE FULL ARTICLE: http://jm75.com/en/contest/
JEUNESSES MUSICALES TO CELEBRATE THEIR 75TH ANNIVERSARY
Sara Sánchez | Brussels
Music is here! The youth music organisation Jeunesses Musicales presented yesterday in BOZAR the programme of activities dedicated to the celebration of their 75th anniversary. 2015 will be a year full of workshops, concerts, music performances and activities to commemorate the 75 years of life of this movement that enables children and young people to develop music and go ahead with their music careers. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: http://goo.gl/5w8LWF
Sara Sánchez | Brussels
Music is here! The youth music organisation Jeunesses Musicales presented yesterday in BOZAR the programme of activities dedicated to the celebration of their 75th anniversary. 2015 will be a year full of workshops, concerts, music performances and activities to commemorate the 75 years of life of this movement that enables children and young people to develop music and go ahead with their music careers. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: http://goo.gl/5w8LWF
REGISTRATIONS FOR ETHNO SWEDEN, ETHNO PORTUGAL, ETHNO ESTONIA...
LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS on Ethno World site: http://www.ethno-world.org/category/news/
Example: "Ethno Estonia is a music camp for young people where during two intense summer weeks you can learn about folk music from Estonia and other countries. This happens through playing and sharing music together in a creative environment. There will be participants from Estonia, Sweden, Belgium, etc. The camp will conclude with the annual Viljandi Folk Music Festival where the Ethno participants will be giving different performances between the 14th and the 24th of July 2015.The age limit for participants is 16-30 years. You are very welcome if you play a melody instrument and wish to develop your skills in ensemble playing and find new friends in music! There will be workshops every day where participants will be able to learn songs, tunes and dances from different countries. The leaders will take care that everything goes smoothly and that everyone can have a great time. They will also arrange the tunes and lead the whole Ethno bandwagon on different concerts, outings and other surprises. One thing is for sure: everyone involved will have the greatest 2 weeks of their summer!
CAMP FEE AND REGISTRATIONThe price for the whole camp is 175 €. This includes:
LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS on Ethno World site: http://www.ethno-world.org/category/news/
Example: "Ethno Estonia is a music camp for young people where during two intense summer weeks you can learn about folk music from Estonia and other countries. This happens through playing and sharing music together in a creative environment. There will be participants from Estonia, Sweden, Belgium, etc. The camp will conclude with the annual Viljandi Folk Music Festival where the Ethno participants will be giving different performances between the 14th and the 24th of July 2015.The age limit for participants is 16-30 years. You are very welcome if you play a melody instrument and wish to develop your skills in ensemble playing and find new friends in music! There will be workshops every day where participants will be able to learn songs, tunes and dances from different countries. The leaders will take care that everything goes smoothly and that everyone can have a great time. They will also arrange the tunes and lead the whole Ethno bandwagon on different concerts, outings and other surprises. One thing is for sure: everyone involved will have the greatest 2 weeks of their summer!
CAMP FEE AND REGISTRATIONThe price for the whole camp is 175 €. This includes:
- participation in workshops
- food from 14.-24. July in Kõpu (breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch and evening snack)
- lodging in Kõpu during the camp and during the Viljandi Folk Music Festival
- festival performers pass which ensures free entrance to all the concerts at the festival
- camp T-shirt
- bus transport during the camp
FOLK, A MUSICAL FORCE AGAINST XENOPHOBIA
Sara Sanchez Gonzalez
www.ethno-world.org
During the opening ceremony in the Swedish Parliament after elections of 2010, the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, appeared on TV wearing a traditional folk suit, immediately establishing a relation between his ideology and the musical genre. This image triggered a wave of sheer outrage and enormous frustration because of a public opinion that believes Åkesson’s ideas are nationalist and racist. Despite all loads of ways to protest, a group of young musicians chose the most beguiling one: the music.
This is how Folkmusiker mot Främlingsfientlighet (Folk Musicians Against Xenophobia) came to be under a speech based on a defense of the multiculturalism, respect and passion for the traditional music. The musicians, folk dancers, organizers, listeners, craftsmen, scientists and defenders who make up the movement are united by a common opinion: folk is not a symbol of nationalist and xenophobic cultural views and even less it is an illustration of old Sweden and political propaganda.
Folkmusiker mot Främlingsfientlighet (FMF) works in a spontaneous way using the folk music and traditional instruments as a weapon in their public demonstrations and debates in which around 500 people have been enrolled. The movement doesn’t have a long-term plan and they rather see themselves as a force and network that is always ready to react, to manifest and to play every time people or cultures are discriminated, disrespected or bullied. They act in line with the goals formulated in their manifest, the Knåtofsmanifestet, based on three components: not to put Swedish folk culture against multiculturalism, let everyone have his say in the cultural debate and update the image and the definition of Swedish folk culture.
Among the rooters of FMF musicians it highlights the presence of some participants in Ethno, a program of Jeunesses Musicales International and a unique project for traditional/folk young musicians. All along the workshops, summer camps and performances organised within Ethno, hundreds of participants like Isak Bergstrom had contact with musicians from all around the globe during which they taught to each other traditional folk songs from their cultures.
Isak Bergstrom, a young artist who grew up with folk and dance around, studied music for years and participated twice in Ethno, has always considered folk music to be his home and the most precious way of communication. He defines himself as “accordion musician, activist, feminist and anti-racist” and is currently involved in a theatre group with folk as a backdrop as well as he is one active part of the musical demonstrations and performances organised by the movement FMF against racism and xenophobia. Bearing this in mind, Isak has the right to assure that “there is no contraction between supporting folk culture and embracing new influences and cultures”, this explains why it was impossible for him not to react after the of Jimmie Åkesson’s appearance in traditional folk suit and make the decision to be part of a critical but positive movement.
According to Isak, the FMF movement soon received generally positive reactions. “People have cheered us and appreciated what we do. We have also been quite successful in engaging politicians in debates a few times over the years and getting their support. For example, some of them showed up in the traditional folk suit just before making a statement where in they claimed that there is no relation to nationalism or racism, a central point of our work within FMF”. But the movement has experienced some hateful responses as well. “An example of that occurred last summer in Almedalen, a place where all Swedish politicians and media meet once a year. A man started shouting at me there, approached me and made me feel and personally insulted during our peaceful protest against the SD-speech. Nevertheless, right there I was also interviewed by Big Steve, an English Youtube Star impressed by our work”, claims Isak Bergstrom.
All experiences and time spent at FMF and ETHNO have been fundamentally important for Isak, in the same way as his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and all the youth camps and projects he’s been part of were. In consonance with his words, folk music represents a wonderful world to make friends and an opportunity to better get to know where we come from. Going even further, folk means progression and change thanks to programs like Ethno, such a wonderful example of how the entire world interacts today, join cultures showing that there is no ever lasting tradition or constant element in any genre. Isak sums up everything with a priceless quote: “If every person in the world had been to an Ethno camp, there would be no need for a network like FMF!”
Sara Sanchez Gonzalez
www.ethno-world.org
During the opening ceremony in the Swedish Parliament after elections of 2010, the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, appeared on TV wearing a traditional folk suit, immediately establishing a relation between his ideology and the musical genre. This image triggered a wave of sheer outrage and enormous frustration because of a public opinion that believes Åkesson’s ideas are nationalist and racist. Despite all loads of ways to protest, a group of young musicians chose the most beguiling one: the music.
This is how Folkmusiker mot Främlingsfientlighet (Folk Musicians Against Xenophobia) came to be under a speech based on a defense of the multiculturalism, respect and passion for the traditional music. The musicians, folk dancers, organizers, listeners, craftsmen, scientists and defenders who make up the movement are united by a common opinion: folk is not a symbol of nationalist and xenophobic cultural views and even less it is an illustration of old Sweden and political propaganda.
Folkmusiker mot Främlingsfientlighet (FMF) works in a spontaneous way using the folk music and traditional instruments as a weapon in their public demonstrations and debates in which around 500 people have been enrolled. The movement doesn’t have a long-term plan and they rather see themselves as a force and network that is always ready to react, to manifest and to play every time people or cultures are discriminated, disrespected or bullied. They act in line with the goals formulated in their manifest, the Knåtofsmanifestet, based on three components: not to put Swedish folk culture against multiculturalism, let everyone have his say in the cultural debate and update the image and the definition of Swedish folk culture.
Among the rooters of FMF musicians it highlights the presence of some participants in Ethno, a program of Jeunesses Musicales International and a unique project for traditional/folk young musicians. All along the workshops, summer camps and performances organised within Ethno, hundreds of participants like Isak Bergstrom had contact with musicians from all around the globe during which they taught to each other traditional folk songs from their cultures.
Isak Bergstrom, a young artist who grew up with folk and dance around, studied music for years and participated twice in Ethno, has always considered folk music to be his home and the most precious way of communication. He defines himself as “accordion musician, activist, feminist and anti-racist” and is currently involved in a theatre group with folk as a backdrop as well as he is one active part of the musical demonstrations and performances organised by the movement FMF against racism and xenophobia. Bearing this in mind, Isak has the right to assure that “there is no contraction between supporting folk culture and embracing new influences and cultures”, this explains why it was impossible for him not to react after the of Jimmie Åkesson’s appearance in traditional folk suit and make the decision to be part of a critical but positive movement.
According to Isak, the FMF movement soon received generally positive reactions. “People have cheered us and appreciated what we do. We have also been quite successful in engaging politicians in debates a few times over the years and getting their support. For example, some of them showed up in the traditional folk suit just before making a statement where in they claimed that there is no relation to nationalism or racism, a central point of our work within FMF”. But the movement has experienced some hateful responses as well. “An example of that occurred last summer in Almedalen, a place where all Swedish politicians and media meet once a year. A man started shouting at me there, approached me and made me feel and personally insulted during our peaceful protest against the SD-speech. Nevertheless, right there I was also interviewed by Big Steve, an English Youtube Star impressed by our work”, claims Isak Bergstrom.
All experiences and time spent at FMF and ETHNO have been fundamentally important for Isak, in the same way as his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and all the youth camps and projects he’s been part of were. In consonance with his words, folk music represents a wonderful world to make friends and an opportunity to better get to know where we come from. Going even further, folk means progression and change thanks to programs like Ethno, such a wonderful example of how the entire world interacts today, join cultures showing that there is no ever lasting tradition or constant element in any genre. Isak sums up everything with a priceless quote: “If every person in the world had been to an Ethno camp, there would be no need for a network like FMF!”