Festival and Conference
The Bow and the Voice
A festival and a conference held together, working toward a written Gaborone Declaration on music education and musical heritage.
No dates are fixed.
What it is
The bow and the voice are the two oldest instruments in this region, and the two a conservatoire tends to treat most differently. One gets a technique syllabus and a graded repertoire. The other gets recorded by visitors.
The festival puts them in the same programme, in the same halls, on the same days, as equivalent work rather than a main event and a cultural evening. The conference runs alongside it.
The aim
A written Gaborone Declaration.
A conference that ends in applause changes nothing. This one is built to produce a document: a short written statement, agreed by the institutions present, on how music education should treat the traditions of the places it is taught in.
The text, the signatories and the process for agreeing it are being developed.
Register your interest
There are no dates yet. Leave your details and we will write when the programme is set. Nothing else.