MUSICAL WORKSHOPS
INDIVIDUAL ‘ASSOCIATIONS’
An individual search for the depths of the ‘mysteries’ of playing classical guitar as well as other types of musical styles.
GROUP GATHERINGS
Participants relate while they discover a series of conditionally not very demanding instruments that belong to various musical traditions (Orff Orchestra). According to their abilities and their musical knowledge they experience the joy and beauty of creative expression within the orchestra. This stress-free kind of associative music making tends to become rather noisy sometimes. But with the attentive work put in by each member, under the guidance of an experienced mentor, the music becomes audible.
As a mentor and conductor, Etbin occassionally works in music workshops meant for education and relaxation in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, societies, art and culture associations, health and therapy institutions, homes for the elderly, educational holiday camps, etc.
WORK WITH REFUGEES
Etbin’s idea of
creativity in art enables him to ‘surpass’ the framework of ‘cultural work’.
With his music teacher’s ear he reaches a greater psyho-social sphere of more or
less underprivileged people, mostly children.
As a ‘music activist’ of the
‘Exiles Project’,
under the patronage of Ljubljana’s
KUD FRANCE PRESEREN
(Cultural & Arts Center), he began to work with the children of war refugees,
who - at the outbreak of the Balkan crisis - found shelter in numerous refugee
camps in Slovenia. Amongst the orchestras that Etbin formed and led between 1993 and
2001 there were two outstanding ones: one made up of children from Tolmin and the
other made up of children from Skofja Loka. The former, called
Putujuci zemljotres
(The Travelling
Earthquake), which had its moment of glory performing at two Unicef concerts in
1993 and together with other members of the Exiles Project came second in the
Eurovision competition of TV advertisements with a humanitarian message (1994).
The refugee orchestra called
Masta moze svasta
(Imagination Unlimited) from Tolmin -its members were mostly teenagers-
performed many times, but there was one in particular ‘heard by the world
concert’ in July 1995 in the European Parliament Hall in Strasbourg.
Their younger brothers and sisters (aged 6 to 10) were trying to catch up by
giving more modest performances playing in the
‘Buduca masta moze
svasta’
(Tomorrow’s
Imagination Unlimited) orchestra.