Music On Wheels is an international music project organized by and for young people, exploring the borders of Europe to make music together. This initiative, which literally connects Northern with Southern Europe, is supported by 15 young people from Belgium, Portugal and Norway. These young people were brought together by a shared passion for (hiphop-)music and a warm heart for artistic youth work. This project tackles media literacy, talent discovery and talent development, entrepreneurship, community building, social inclusion and Youth participation. Through 3 international training courses in 2020-2021, the 15 participants jointly explore the borders of Europe to make music through a process of co-creation. In this process, they involve other children and youngsters from disadvantaged neighborhoods through a mobile music studio. The voice of young people growing up in deprivation is still too little heard. Music On Wheels wants to make this voice sound loudly by creating rap texts and hip-hop tracks about current European topics such as equality, social inclusion, diversity, identity, etc. These songs and lyrics will be shared with local and international politicians, to make sure the message of the youth gets heard. This project promotes active citizenship and wants to make politicians aware about the difficult realities a lot of young people are confronted with. Music On Wheels also experiments with the use of Virtual Reality technology (VR) in musical experience. Before the first physical meeting, the young people already met each other in a VR-environment. This project builds bridges from youth work to other sectors, such as IT. We aim for approximately 400 young people actively involved in this project. To end this one-year project, we will organize a closing-event where young people from Belgium, Portugal and Norway get the chance to present their project results. On this event we would like to focus on sharing good practices concerning the use of VR as a tool in (musical) youth projects. After this project, everyone who was involved in this project will have the opportunity to put her/his portfolio on the Music On Wheels platform. For us it is important to make sure the young talents remain visible, so they can be "booked" by actors in and outside youth work. Through an individual growth-trajectory, focussing on our young talents, we contribute to a sustainable result striving for independence.
Talentontwikkeling, zinvolle vrijetijdsbesteding en participatie bevorderen bij de deelnemers. Door middel van ontmoeting en samenwerking over verschillende disciplines binnen de hiphopcultuur het sociale netwerk van de jongeren uitbreiden. Daarnaast als organisatie uit de regionale context treden. Een uitwisseling betekende zowel voor de deelnemers als de organisatie een waardevolle leerschool buiten de dagdagelijkse comfortzone. Tegelijkertijd het duurzaam verankeren van de methoden, methodieken en manier van samenwerken met partnerorganisaties in de werking en expertise van Graffiti VZW.
Jongeren de kans geven een uitwisseling mee te maken waarbij ze hun netwerk als artiest en jongere kunnen uitbreiden. De bedoeling was om ontmoeting te faciliteren tussen (kwetsbare) creatieve jongeren waarbij dit netwerk ontbreekt om groeikansen te vergroten, zowel artistiek als persoonlijk. Verschillende achtergronden met elkaar verbinden met kunst als bindmiddel om tot een waardevolle uitwisseling te komen.