bringing music to cape town's underprivileged communities – a norwegian academy of music...
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Bringing Music to Cape Town's Underprivileged
Communities – a Norwegian Academy of Music (NAM)/ South African College of
Music (SACM) Collaboration
South Africa in world context
South Africa – on the tip of Africa
Cape Town
History of the project
• Funded by the NORAD Programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE)
• This project has been running since 2006
• UCT has been able to send a total of ten students to study at NAM for one year each
• Two students from NAM have come to UCT as part of the programme
• The students from UCT who were awarded the scholarships were:
• Chris Engel & Lwanda Gogwana {2006/7}• Keenan Ahrends & Mandla Mlangeni {2007/8}• Darren English & Claude Cozens {2008/9}• Wathiq Hoosain & Ethan Smith {2009/10}• Adele Wyngaard & Justin Bellairs {2010/11}
• The students from NAM who were awarded the scholarship were:
• Lisa Hvoslef & Ellen Brekken {2009}
Academic objectives
• This project relates to student mobility and introduced the possibility for students from the Jazz Department at SACM to spend an exchange period at the Norwegian Academy of Music as a part of their Bachelor of Music programme in Cape Town, and vice versa for 2 Norwegian students.
• The study programme includes subjects such as: main instrument, improvisation, different ensembles, aural training, harmony, composition, arrangement and a Norwegian language course. The amount of credit awarded for the year will be 60 ECTS.
Service-learning objectives
• On return to SACM students are expected to engage in a community-education programme for a year, which involves them going to disadvantaged areas of the community and providing quality education.
• This will eventually provide access to various university programmes at UCT to the youth in those communities. This part of the programme is administered by Prof Mike Campbell at SACM.
A typical tourist’s view of Cape Town
Reality for many underprivileged communities in Cape Town
Teaching on the IMAD Project
IMAD Project
• The Institute for Music and Indigenous Arts Development
• Founded in 2007 by George Werner
• Currently runs in four schools:• Eluxolweni Primary in Khayelitsha• York Rd Primary in Lansdowne• ComArts Community Centre in Elsies River• Manenberg High in Manenberg
Difficulties faced
• UCT does not run any credit-based SL programmes so there is no central office to manage this type of thing
• Students sometimes found it difficult to go out to the areas where the schools were located – lack of transport as well as cost implications
• No existing music teachers at schools
Future sustainability
• Purchasing of instruments for schools means that music education can possibly continue
• Teaching skills developed by the returning students often lead to them taking up full-time teaching positions
• IMAD and SACM have an established relationship so the likelihood of this continuing after this project is over is high
Conclusion
• UCT would like to thank NORAD ACE for its generous sponsorship of this programme
• We hope that the association with NORAD will continue in different spheres
• UCT is a member of SANORD and we have enjoyed participating in this project and working with our NORDIC partners