Music for freedom
The project aims to facilitate the social reintegration of inmates through the creation of workshops and music production spaces related to the artistic world of HIP HOP, particularly RAP and BEATMAKING
Support well-being and personal expression
Educational and rehabilitation processes of convicted young people through non-formal, musical, and technical education programs in European (and Turkish) correctional facilities.
Increase redemption opportunities for young people
With criminal convictions or on probation, detention or postdetention through the development of occupational, artistic, and technological skills in the hip-hop market.
Improve the skills and intervention models of educators (generally youth workers)
Inside or outside of prison to incorporate and expand these music education processes in the criminal justice system.
Offer new professional and job opportunities
To young inmates or former inmates, developing synergies and collaborations with music production and art companies.
Stabilise and increase the introduction of spaces/workshops for musical experimentation and production
Considering the differences between national criminal justice systems, in correctional facilities, both those for juveniles (up to 18 or 22 years of age) and adults (18 and over).
Our objectives
Hip Hop culture has proven to be a powerful means of involvement, awareness, and self-expression for young people with fewer opportunities all over the world and especially for those at risk of deviance, already sentenced or on probation.
Project Results
What we are creating in practice
Music for Freedom (M4F) focuses on one of the worst conditions of marginalisation for young people: detention, whether in juvenile or adult prisons.
The long-standing experience of the lead partner and some of its partners in nonformal educational interventions in that environment led to the following proposal: the development of paths of recovery and inclusion for young inmates regarding on one of the most immersive dimensions, the one of musical expression.
The aim of this project is to develop for the first-time not only artistic skills, but also technical ones which will be useful for future employment.
We are a consortium of six partners
Coming from 5 different European and non European Countries
36 months to realize our project
In 36 months M4F aims at developing a high-quality training, so as to enable the young inmates themselves to be autonomous up to the running of a music production and mixing studio and facilitating access to possible professional outlets even before their release from prison.