8th Workshop

3rd November 2024 - Hylatio Tourist Village, Pissouri

The 8th local activity was implemented by Youth Worker Stathia Michael in Hylatio Tourist Village on the 3rd of November 2024. Once again, present was also Erma Georgiou, the trainer of the first project in Cyprus. Attendees of this workshop were 48 youngsters and 12 adults from numerous types of backgrounds.

This workshop was based on the second training course, that Stathia herself took part of in Latvia, named "Photography and Music as Therapy in Youth Work". For this local implementation, Stathia focused on the music aspect of the project. The workshop had 3 parts.

Part 1: Youngsters, after receiving different musical instruments, some handmade, but most real instruments, were tasks with having a dialogue, with only the use of the instruments, some angry, some calming, and so and so forth.

Part 2: Youngsters, after receiving 2 chopsticks, per pair, were tasked to engage in movement based on music that was playing in the background. 3 different genres of music was used, the first was a classical piece, the second a rock piece by Nirvana, and the last focusing on currently ever popular Lo-Fi genre

Part 3: For the last part, using the instruments as part 1, youngsters were tasked to create a scene, using said instruments, based on different obtuse prompts. Participants were divided into 4 teams. Bugs, Jungle, Birds, Farm.

Participants then reflected on the workshops, and really enjoyed the activity. Participants understood the benefits of music therapy as well as the concept of communication with instruments.

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