Participatory workshop: What is the territorial dimension of the music mediator?
The mediator must be able to establish a link allowing the encounter between the artist, his work and the public. But this triptych is constantly renewed, leading him to constantly question his practice.
The action of the mediator is therefore no longer limited to the sole perimeter of a classroom or a concert hall. How to define the limits?
Can we speak of a territorial dimension of the music mediator?
After having defined what music mediation is, we will try to establish with the participants of the workshop the different territorial fields of action of the music mediator by trying to answer the following questions:
– At the local level: what partnership work can the mediator carry out?
– At the national level: what can be the role of the mediator in networking?
– At the international level: what expertise can the mediator provide?
We will then share an experience of successful music mediation through the presentation of Printemps Francophone: mediation from the local to the international level.
Finally, we will discuss together the limits of this experiment.
Biography
After having been a music mediator and art therapist in a hospital environment, Olivier Hego has been teaching guitar since 2006 and is a practicing musician in schools, holder of the University Diploma of Intervening Musician.
In 2008, he created the Printemps Francophone festival which links artists from the French-speaking world (Canada, Belgium, Mali, etc.) with the inhabitants of the Pays Solesmois territory through mediation actions aimed at different audiences (establishments schools, associations, social centres).
He is the founding president of Le Fil Francophone, an association whose objective is to promote the Francophonie through artistic and cultural education. The goal is to connect French-speaking audiences and artists by setting up musical creation projects.
He is the president of the FNAMI Nord which brings together the music mediators who are the DUMISTES musicians.
