The first training week of the programme series Play it Loud!, organized by the Jeunesses Musicales International and the International Music Council ended on August 7. The aim of the initiative is to promote gender equality within the music sector via trainings and art programmes.
In the programme involving seven countries (North Macedonia, Cyprus, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and France) various actors of the music world took part, including pop and classical music performers, organizers and music teachers.
The training took place in the European Youth Centre (EYC) in Strasbourg, which, with its facilities and equipment, was an excellent venue for encounter and discussion.
The Hungarian team consisted of three youths: flutist Dominika Ács, music historian and psychologist Anna Belinszky, and Mária Kaposi concert and event organizer.
During the training in August, participants got to know the operation of Loud Camp, providing the idea of the programme, participated in sensitivity training workshops and had the opportunity to share their practices with employees of partner institutions.
One goal of the training was to invent and plan events which will be realized in the autumn of 2021, in the participants’ own countries. The Hungarian youths question roles and the traditional concert format in classical music by organizing their own programme Breaking norms, breaking forms in September.
