Educational activities

In November 2024, a new cycle begins of the distance-learning professional development programme “Practical Applications of STEAM Education in Music Teaching and Learning” offered by CCE-NKUA / GO ARTS. The programme is aimed at educators and music-education professionals and focuses on connecting music with interdisciplinary learning and contemporary digital technologies.

The educational workshop “Space-Themed Fruity Musical Instruments!” takes place on 3 November 2024 at Baby Maestro Cyprus and is designed for children aged 6–9. The activity combines musical play, making, and digital technology, using fruit, water, coins, and other everyday materials within a space-inspired theme.

On 17 October 2024, within the WAAE Athens Summit 2024, the student project Pierce Little Musicians DIY Orchestra is presented by primary-school students from Pierce – The American College of Greece. The activity connects music performance with the construction and use of digital musical instruments.

The Athens Urban Picnic 2024 takes place on 1 May at Plato’s Academy Park, with activities for children and families connecting play, creativity and ecology. Among them is a workshop combining music, digital technology and everyday materials.

In January 2024, version 1.4 of Blues Jam Keys! is presented as an online environment for practice and improvisation in the blues idiom. The application is based on the twelve-bar form and combines a backing track with a virtual keyboard for direct musical experimentation.

Guess the Emojis – Christmas Edition is an interactive digital music game for classroom use during the Christmas period. Developed in Canva, it includes ten levels of increasing difficulty, with five puzzles per level, in which students identify familiar Christmas songs from combinations of emojis.

The professional development programme “The Digital World in Music Education and Culture: Sources, Tools and Techniques” begins on 4 December 2023, has a total duration of 450 hours and runs for seven months through in-person and distance-learning sessions. The CCE-NKUA programme focuses on applications of digital media in music education and culture.

The workshop “Sounds & Blips” takes place at the MUSIX Lab of the Athens Concert Hall from 5 November to 3 December 2023 and is designed for children aged 7–11. The activity brings musical sound together with basic ideas of electricity and electronic circuits through making and experimentation.

The Music Coin DJs workshop takes place on 26 November 2023 at the MUSIX Lab of the Athens Concert Hall and is designed for children aged 7–10. Coins, cables and electronic circuits are used so that everyday objects can trigger and control digital sounds, rhythms and melodies.

Digital Vegan Orchestra takes place at the MUSIX Lab of the Athens Concert Hall from 5 November to 3 December 2023 and is designed for children aged 6–8. Fruit, cables, electronic circuits and computers are used as materials for experimenting with sound and building digital musical instruments.

The professional-development programme “Learning Music through Programming and Programming through Music” begins on 20 November 2023 and has a total duration of 125 hours. Organised by EEPEK, it is aimed at educators and professionals interested in connecting music with programming and digital technologies.