The fifth annual international SIMM-posium (Research Symposium on the Social Impact of Making Music), originally scheduled to occur in Brussels last month, has been postponed and reorganized as a nine-week series of online webinars beginning on January 12. The webinars are free and open to all. You can find detailed information on the full program on the SIMM website. Registration is on the Bozar website; you must register for each session separately.
The 5th SIMM-posium – organized by the SIMM-platform and the arts centre Bozar had to take place in Brussels on 18th and 19th December 2020, but was reformatted and is now presented in a series of 9 weekly online sessions on Tuesdays 12th January until 9th March 2021.
Scientific committee:
Marta Amico (Université de Rennes, FR)
An De Bisschop (HOGENT – University College Ghent, BE)
Graça Mota (CIPEM/INET-md – Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Música e Educação Musical, Porto, PT)
Lukas Pairon (SIMM, BE)
Anemone van Zijl (HOGENT – University College Ghent, BE)
Program Overview
Each live (zoom) session will start with presentations of research in this field (see details and abstracts), and then propose a panel discussion with the presenters of the research, followed by a Q&A with the audience attending online, in order to be able to engage further in the topics presented and to explore new directions toward meaningful research and practice.
Each session will be concluded with pre-recorded music by Belgian social music projects proposed by ‘De Ledebirds’ (Ghent) and soloist Bart Maris.
FREE registration: please visit the website of the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR (www.bozar.be) where you will find links to the zoom-connections for each session.