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Silk Road Projects & Partnerships

Our projects work with marginalised communities including those affected by conflict and emergencies, children with special needs and disabilities, youth escaping organized crime, refugees and internally displaced people, women and girls who experience harmful social and cultural norms that prevent them from thriving in society.

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Our model of
co-creation

All of our work is delivered through or in partnership with local organizations and educators. To help us deliver sustainable impact, we co-create with local communities, charities, artists, educators, and changemakers, building a network of collaborators across the globe.

Our projects are run by the people who understand the local context, culture and their own communities.

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We see the benefits of partnering with notable and value-aligned sponsorships to support our projects across the globa. In return, this would provide opportunities for businesses to contribute to their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda and act as champions within the communities they operate in.

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Barbados

Silk Road Music festival outreach projects

IamGirNGO and University of West Indies 

Ghana

Supporting children with disabilities through music and the creative arts, Lawra, Upper West Region

Lebanon

the harmonic music education programme in the Beqaa Valley supports children and youth impacted by the Syrian War

Thailand

creative arts workshops with children and youth in the Khlong Toey slum community, Bangkok

Paintbrush foundation

India

a world music children’s choir, Mumbai

Udayachal Schools, Mumbai

Palestine

Jam for Gaza fundraiser

The Temple of Art and Music, Medical Aid for Palestinians

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Jam For Gaza Fundraiser – Sat 18th November 2023 

Temple of Art and Music, Canary Wharf. Located in: MMy Wood Wharf (Mercato Metropolitano)

5:30pm 

Doors + DJ Dan Smitty

6pm 

Welcomes and opening speech 

Arfoud Brothers and Sisters

6:30pm 

Abdoulaye Samb

River Wild

7pm 

Foo birds

7:30pm

 Orchestrated discontent

8pm 

Ma’grass

8:30pm

Mid speech

Mamasutra

9pm 

Berber Diffusion

9:30pm 

Colectiva

10pm 

Surprise act

10:25pm 

Closing speech

10.30-11.30pm

Open Jam with Triple Jam & Inverted worlds featuring:

  – Abdiel’s Pearl

 – OneJah

   – She’s Got Brass

11:30pm – Curfew

I Am A Girl – Silk Road Project Proposal
Summary

Silk Road facilitators will work with I Am A Girl to provide creative arts workshops, alongside providing an exciting opportunity to perform original music/multidisciplinary art at Silk Road Music Festival. Our main objective of this project is to develop an ongoing meaningful partnership between our artists/facilitators and the girls, and to help expand the girls’ creative development and build confidence in their day to day lives. 

Goals

For the girls to be able to perform a song/piece of music they’ve composed from scratch in collaboration with Silk Road artists & facilitators at the Silk Road Music Festival alongside Silk Road Artists, as well as engaging in other cross-arts projects such as live painting and fabric dyeing which will be featured at the festival. 

Approach
Timelines 
Facilitators 

Initial project timeline: Saturdays in term up to festival. 

Possibly bi-weekly sessions – minimum length 1.5-2hrs.

Theme: Silk Road & female empowerment.

What we need to know before starting the sessions: 
  • The age group of the girls that we would be working with
  • Their musical backgrounds (e.g. has anyone learned a musical instrument, would they be happy to bring it to the project, is everybody comfortable singing or playing percussion?)
  • Their knowledge/involvement in the arts in general
  • If there are any Special Educational Needs that we should be aware of when planning our sessions – our team of facilitators have lots of experience working with SEN children and adults but it is always useful to know anything that may affect how the workshops run in advance!

Silk Road’s outreach work will be focusing a lot on multidisciplinary art forms being explored and combined in different ways at our festival. We want to provide young women and girls with the opportunity to explore the arts in a safe, creative space, and nurture emerging talent by providing them with the chance to perform & work with world-class artists. 

Our workshop facilitators will need to be able to record audio of sessions in order to retain & develop musical ideas between sessions. This audio would not be shared anywhere outside of the facilitators and the girls (e.g. to remind them of a musical idea they had the previous