Project timeframe: 28th of October-3rd of November, 2018
1st -7th of February, 2019
1st- 7th of July, 2019
7th-17th of October, 2019
MIHR theatre’s engagement in the project: Shoghakat MLKE-Galstyan was a local project coordinator.
‘’artasfoundation’’ – Swiss Foundation for Art in regions of Conflict started the International Choir Project in 2018 in Abkhazia. The second round of the project started in autumn 2018 in the Armenian region of Tavush, near the border with Azerbaijan. In 2018/2019, ‘’artasfoundation’’ organizes in collaboration with the singer Franziska Welti, the musician Jean-Daniel Girod and local cultural institutions two weekly workshops (held in October 2018 / February 2019) on international folk music and a subsequent concert tour to the places of origin of the participants and in Yerevan in summer 2019.
25 young women and men, between 12 and 17 years old, are invited to sing folk songs from different countries of the world and learn techniques of body percussion. The participants come from Dilijan, Berd, Koghb, Bagratashn and Ayroum. The choir leaders from Armenia attended the workshops and worked together with Franziska Welti and Jean-Daniel Girod and the young people.
In autumn 2019, the Choir from Armenia will have concerts with the Choir from Abkhazia, which will take place in Soukhoumy, Abkhazia. The Armenian Choir will also have concerts in Georgia.
