Orquestra Geração de Amarante: Inclusion by Music

Abstract

This scientific research, focuses on the study of the Orquestra Energia project, more specifically on the project developed by the Cultural Center of Amarante. Orquestra Energia is the continuity of the well-known Generation Orchestra, El Sistema Venezuelano. "During this article will always be dubbed the Generation Orchestra, to facilitate the entire integration system and to make sense of the course and beginning of The System." It will be approached the implementation of the same, going through its creation, until the present day. The Orquestra Energia, in the North Zone is composed of three nuclei: Amarante, Murça and Mirandela respectively. This article will refer to the center of Amarante, attending not only to the geographic question, but also to all my involvement in the management and organization of its operation in the Cultural Center of Amarante, institution that I pedagogically direct. The Orquestra Geração is a social project for children and young people, aimed at promoting social integration through music. Directed to children and adolescents at risk and educational and social vulnerability. The relationship between music and social inclusion, as well as the opportunity that every individual should have in accessing environments in which musical education takes place, irrespective of their economic, social, ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural or sex heritage, assumes here role. Music in this context is seen as promoting citizenship and social inclusion, belonging and the development of identity within a group, promoting new perspectives of life in these children and adolescents. This article also aims to promote the project of the Orquestra Geração and to challenge the creation of other projects of the same genre, with a view to the social and cultural integration of thousands of children and young people around the world.