Barrios Orquestados is starting this year the registration campaign for new students in the Canary Islands. The social project offers 100% free musical training to minors under 18 years of age and their families in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Its objective is to improve the community fabric and promote access to culture in those environments marked by socioeconomic vulnerability and an artistic offer that is often limited.
Registration remains open from the beginning of September and information can be requested through the contact email [email protected]. Participation in the project is completely free and includes the loan of the instrument. The vacancies are intended for all children and adolescents who wish to be part of a choir, or also play an instrument with a unique methodology: classes always in groups, without sheet music, playing from the first day and with the direct participation of families.
The places offered are to learn violin, viola, cello and double bass in the four islands, in addition to, specifically in Gran Canaria, flute, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon. Their children's and youth choirs also have their doors open to receive new voices who want to join the groups that already exist.
For 12 years, Barrios Orquestados has been developing an unprecedented social and cultural dynamization activity in the Canary Islands. Today it has 14 venues: in Gran Canaria it covers the areas of Tamaraceite, Guanarteme, Risco de San Nicolás, Cono Sur, Ciudad Alta, Jinámar, Montaña Los Vélez and La Isleta; in Tenerife it covers La Cuesta, Ofra, Añaña and Barranco Grande; the third island is Lanzarote, with the nuclei of Argana and Altavista, and the most recent is Fuerteventura, with two groups in El Matorral and El Charco.
After its founding in 2011 by José Brito and Laura Brito, Barrios Orquestados continues to grow in the Canary Islands to make music a tool for inclusion and community development. Such is the success of its methodology that it has crossed the Atlantic to create a new headquarters in Chile and two in Honduras.
