(Tobias Sturmer) This pilot project aims to offer young, male refugees and asylum-seekers (RAS) opportunities for learning drumming, as a way of fostering creativity, intercultural learning and expression, connection to others and to Oxford, as well as team building skills. It also aims to create more community cohesion between RAS and the local community. Male RAS are one of the most marginalised groups in Oxford and the hardest to engage. The project comprises 2×10 week (1.5hrs) sessions, performances with the later set of sessions integrating and engaging with the local music community. Beneficiaries: 30 refugees and asylum seekers/vulnerable migrants from Oxford, aged between 16-18 or young men aged 18-30, the majority come from Eritrea, Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan. A further 10 beneficiaries will be local drumming students involved in the second workshop programme.
Emergence Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, no. 1050701.
