Music Classes from musical school floors in Europe will demonstrate what happens when music is part of daily school activities!

We will invite four music classes from regular schools in Sweden, Europe and the United States. Students and music teachers will present their musical work in real time and reflect upon how music affects studies, personal development of the children and the school environment. Short film documentaries from their school floors will be filmed by Festival & Forum 21 and shown at the festival.

To visit and film ”school floors” in musical guest school is a concept Festival & Forum 21 initiated and presented in the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 21, 2016 in a manifestation around why music should be part of regular school curriculums. Five schools from the United States, England, Norway, Finland and Sweden were our guests.

Film from Nykvarn, Sweden 1994: A regular school where two music teachers turned classrooms into full wind orchestras:

OXFORD GARDENS, LONDON

Film from Oxford Gardens, a school in central London, 1996. Music transformed a school with 31 nationalities In the midst of a London district ridden with heavy criminality:

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, US, 1990 AND 2005

A film with materials filmed in 1990 and 2005 about the music program in the Ann Arbor Public Schools Every child in all public schools receive music education as part of the regular school curriculum. On a mandatory basis. (Interviews in English):

ANN ARBOR, 2016

The third film from Ann Arbor Public Schools and their music program. Filmed in 2016:

EAST HELSINKI MUSIC INSTITUTE, 2016

Film about the music program in East Helsinki Music Institute, Finland where all children are auditioned through interviews where the main focus is on motivation, not on talent – before starting in 1st grade. Filmed in 2016:

KALIX, SWEDEN, 2016

Film about a music program in one public school in Kalix, Sweden. All children in third grade receive one year mandatory instrumental playing. Filmed 2016:

WATFORD, ENGLAND, 2016

Film about the music program in a school in Watford, England, 2016 A school where all classroom teachers receive basic music training in order to integrate music into the regular school curriculum and in other subjects: (Interviews in English)