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A 2014 for Batuta, a 2015 of Batuta

For the National Batuta Foundation, 2014 was a year with a positive balance thanks to the diverse actions that marked the impact of the Foundation and the combined actions of the work teams in search of larger and better opportunities to develop the mission of social transformation through music.

During 2014, the National Batuta Foundation set a goal to raise 17.000.000.000 pesos and this goal was surpassed, reaching a total of over 27.000.000.000 pesos of which 9.000.000.000 were managed during the second trimester thanks to the support of public donors on a national, departmental and municipal level as well as private companies, nonprofit organizations and international cooperation. This event has allowed for institutional and mission strengthening of the Foundation and focusing future work towards the design of new strategic projects.

PROJECT MUSIC FOR RECONCILIATION

The transforming power of music at the service of reparation Music guarantees the exercise of rights The internal Colombian conflict has caused enormous damage in the lives of thousands of people. It is everyone’s duty to help restore the wellbeing of the communities that have been affected. The exercise of musical pedagogy has proven to be a definitive tool in the support of vulnerable populations.

A model that saves lives The Department for Social Prosperity has strived to create strategies to tend to populations victims of internal conflict. The National Batuta Foundation actively contributes in the design and implementation of a comprehensive model of psychosocial and musical care for children and adolescents.

Parts Two axes - musical training and psychosocial care - combined into three components:

MUSICAL INITIATION DISABILITY ADULT CHOIR

Projects For 2014 - 2015

A model of musical work is established that favors comprehensive development.

Musical, civil and cognitive skills are developed in the beneficiaries.

There is hand in hand work with the national government to strengthen social fabric construction mechanisms.

Individual and collective musical expression is fostered, as well as ideal environments for the development of creativity.

Cultural identity is strengthened.

Motor, rhythmic, hearing and cognitive skills and dexterities are strengthened in children with disabilities.

Coverage Over 20.000 beneficiaries in 83 municipalities, located in 177 musical centers.

Investment Thanks to the Department for Social Prosperity, 14.000.000.000 pesos were invested in this project.

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PROJECT PLAN FRONTIERS FOR PROSPERITY

The transforming power of music, at the service of bi-national integration.

A project that crosses borders The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its Revolving Fund, and the National Batuta Foundation, signed on 2013 a Partnership Agreement. Its main objective is coordinate human, technical, administrative and financial efforts for the coverage and sustainability of the Bi-National Orchestral Centers and for the Projects of Musical Initiation for children and teenagers in border areas in development of the Borders for Prosperity Plan, whose main objective is to generate and support the development of activities that enable the approach of border population through musical culture and foster the social development of children and youths in this population.

Components Musical formation in a group format, with results projected on the students, their families, the community and its surroundings.

Qualification of the processes in the musical symphonic area; summoning and articulating the initiatives of the different actors of the process. Promoting the encounter between popular and academic knowledge.

Coverage 480 children, adolescents and youths who live in the departments of Guajira (Maicao and Paraguachón), Cesar (Agustín Codazzi), Chocó (Riosucio and Unguía), Nariño, (Ipiales), Arauca (Arauca) and Norte de Santander (Villa del Rosario and Los Patios), San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Providencia).

Investment The implementation of this project had an approximate cost of over 1.500.000.000 pesos.

PROJECT NETWORK OF CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH ORCHESTRAS

The transforming power of music for symphonic development Ecopetrol Comprehensive education through musical training in Batuta Ecopetrol Orchestral Centers Ecopetrol, within the framework of its management tasks in the area of Social Responsibility, has supported since 2006 the development of Musical Training Programs in the Batuta Musical Centers, located in the influence areas of the company, in order to contribute to the improvement of education and culture quality in the country.

Components Symphonic musical training Equip, repair and maintain instruments in each of the Batuta Ecopetrol Orchestral Centers.

Coverage 80 boys, girls and adolescents in nine Batuta Orchestral Centers in Ecopetrol’s influence areas; which means 720 boys, girls and adolescents who are beneficiaries of the previous agreements linked to the Pre-Orchestra programs, participate in the Symphonic Musical Training.

Investment The implementation of this project had an approximate cost of over 700.000.000 pesos.

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Projects For 2014 - 2015

A free orchestra for Quibdó The Free Symphonic Orchestra of Quibdó is an answer to the historic marginalization of the department and a musical training model based on quality, on the development of the talents and artistic potential of children and youths of Chocó, seeking to become a national and regional artistic reference point thanks to its free character, through which traditional music of the Pacific is integrated into it.

Components

MUSICAL INITIATION CORAL TRAINING SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRAL TRAINING FOR CHILDREN, YOUTHS AND ADULTS, WITHOUT DISTINCTION. Support social reintegration and peace strengthening processes in Quibdó and in its influence areas.

Coverage Over 200 boys, girls, youths and adults from Chocó, striving to become a national and regional artistic reference point, thanks to its free character, though which traditional Pacific music is integrated.

Investment The implementation of this project has an approximate cost of over 500.000.000 pesos.

PROJECT EDUCATIONAL DAY 40x40

The transforming power of music at the service of the State policy of education.

Music benefits comprehensive educational processes Since 2013, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, Idartes and the National Batuta Foundation have combined their efforts in order to develop a musical training program for school days for boys, girls and youths in public schools.

Components Through Musical Initiation in Ensemble and Choirs and with the use of Orff instruments; folk percussion, plates and recorder; this program enables the comprehensive development of boys, girls and adolescents in Bogotá in four dimensions akin to artistic education:

DEVELOPMENT OF SENSIBILITY CAPACITY TO ENJOY THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE CREATIVE THOUGHT SYMBOLIC EXPRESSION

Coverage Support for over 600 boys, girls and youths of Bogotá’s public schools.

Investment The implementation of this project has an approximate cost of over 1.500.000.000 pesos.

Likewise, in 2014 Batuta managed agreements, received donations and support from the international cooperation for a grand total of over 3.500.000.000 pesos.

AGREEMENTS VALID IN 2014 DONORS

Amount

Publicar S.A- Ciudad Gurú Cine-Colombia Luther workshops, frontier areas: Cúcuta and Ipiales, Salvi Foundation - Batuta Gas Natural FENOSA CARBOANDES Foundation Grupos de Ahorro y crédito local Somos Mas Corporation and the ICBF in Popayán.

TOTAL

$ 5.600.000 $ 40.000.000 $ 7.120.000 $ 90.000.000 $ 20.000.000 $ 22.000.000 $ 2.000.000 $ 186.720.000

DONATIONS 2014 DONORS

Amount

German Optician

$ 22.000.000 $ 11.000.000 $ 5.500.000 $ 2.681.712 $ 140.220.000

United States Embassy Aviva Kaplan Winchester College. UK Plataforma Office 365 Colombia Móvil S.A E.S.P.- TIGO National Colombian Symphonic Orchestra

$ 32.000.000 $ 20.000.000

Digiware

$ 3.000.000

Donations Gala Concert – October 11

$ 6.915.280

Toto Concert Donations – December 6 and 7

$ 9.700.000 $ 253.016.992

TOTAL

International Cooperation 2014/2015

Amount

British Council- Voices of Hope project

$ 185.724.000

British Council- Development of the World Voice program in Colombia

$ 60.000.000

British Council- Social Return on Investment / Institutional Strengthening

$ 50.000.000

Strengthening of the Bi-National Tri-Color Orchestra- UNESCO

$ 50.000.000

Strengthening of the Bi-National Tri-Color Orchestra IBERORQUESTAS Program Interactive Music Education Program / BID/ Colombian Agency of International Cooperation

$ 41.000.000

Chancellor, Cultural Affairs Management/ Tour Metropolitan Batuta Orchestra Bogotรก-

$ 80.000.000

Chancellor, Cultural Affairs Management/ Cooperation project with the Guri Santa Marcelina Foundation from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

$ 100.000.000

Andean Development Corporation - CAF

$ 1.025.000

Andean Development Corporation - CAF

$ 250.000.000

French embassy

$ 30.750.000

CEPSA U.S.A. embassy- Concerts metropolitan orchestra in U.S.A.

$ 24.000.000 $ 112.750.000

U.S.A. embassy- Technical assistance for musical internships on a national level

$ 35.300.000

U.S.A. embassy- Symphonic process Buenaventura

$ 53.300.000

Swedish Norwegian fund for supporting the Colombian civil society (FOS)

$ 850.000.000

TOTAL

$ 1.435.000.000

$ 3.358.849.000

For 2015, the National Batuta Foundation will concentrate its efforts in strengthening the projects Music for Reconciliation, Music for Cohabitation and the groups of the Frontiers for Prosperity plan through new associativity strategies, the rise of impact in terms of the beneficiary population and the design and setting up and development of initiatives associated with: • Voices of Hope: the attention to the population victim of the armed conflict in those areas where there have been serious human rights violations and infringements to the International Humanitarian Law, as a contribution from Batuta to the reconstruction of social fabric and reconciliation in the Colombian post-conflict.

• Music in the Ludic Venues of Colombia: musical training programs and comprehensive care of children and youth population in Ludic Venues, spaces created by the Chancellor’s Office for caring for population with serious risks regarding armed recruitment in the country.

• Program music for early childhood: the expansion of care for first childhood through the extension, on a national scale, of the program “Batubebés”, in collaboration with private companies and the governmental program “From 0 to Forever”.

• Network of Children’s and Youth Orchestras of Colombia: strengthening the National Network of Youth and Children’s Symphonic Orchestras, guaranteeing the continuity of students of the program of pre-orchestral musical initiation towards the program of symphonic formation in each region of the country.

• Frontier Music - Bi-National Orchestras: coverage expansion and sustainability of the Bi-National Orchestral Centers of border areas for the creation of bi-national orchestras of boys, girls and youths from both sides of the border.

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• Batuta musical training program for extended school days: musical training in Colombian public schools for the promotion of quality education and the increase of the social impact of the National Batuta Foundation in a municipal and rural context.

Projection Agreements 2015

Amount

Ministry of Culture 2015

$ 14.000.000.000

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Frontiers Plan

$ 1.000.000.000

DPS Victims Unit – Hope Choirs

$ 1.500.000.000

Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Ludic Venues

$ 1.457.000.000

Cooperation Agreement No. 11 – Ecopetrol Education Ministry – Extended School Day Several donors – Group of Representative National Orchestras of the National Batuta Foundation OFB – Music project from the OFB for School Day.

$ 1.201.800.000 $ 2.800.000.000 $ 2.000.000.000

IDARTES

$ 250.000.000

Santo Domingo Foundation y Carulla – Music for early childhood

$ 969.000.000

Vetra - Strengthening of the Symphonic training process in Puerto Asís

$ 100.000.000

Ecopetrol – Huila Department

$ 320.822.888

Ecopetrol – Tolima Department

$ 186.366.624

Pacific Rubiales - Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo

$ 123.617.892

Mayor’s Office Tumaco, Nariño

$ 37.500.000

Mayor’s Office Valledupar, Cesar

$ 104.955.684

Governance of Antioquia - Anorí, Corconá, Dabeida, Girardota, Granada and Mutatá.

$ 828.000.496

Culture Secretariat – Gobernance of Antioquia

$ 8.000.000

Mayor’s Office Sincelejo

$ 43.750.000

Mayor’s Office Los Patios

$ 40.000.000

Mayor’s Office Cartagena del Chairá

$ 64.892.619 TOTAL INVESTMENT

$ 1.045.000.000

$ 28.080.706.203

VOICES OF HOPE

The transforming power of music at the service of violence victims.

Music cures, teaches and dignifies Music; whenever it is appreciated taught and learnt in community; becomes a tool that enables relationship processes between people based on solidarity, respect and teamwork. In that sense, pedagogy and musical practice promote values that are opposed to the ones that generate violence. When someone incorporates elements of their own culture to their artistic learning process, not only is their creativity, imagination and initiative stimulated, but also their capacity of critical reflection and of exercising their liberty with responsibility and awareness of the other persons’ existence.

Singing for learning how to live Faithful to the philosophy of using music as a renewing factor of society, the National Batuta Foundation designs for the Victims Unit of the Department for Social Prosperity a musical and psychosocial care model based on coral ensembles and vocal practice. The first objective of this project is to enrich reparation strategies in the areas affected by massacres in Colombia.

Music with a purpose The project is composed of five thematic units, each one lasting eight weeks. In them, musical and psychosocial perspective are dealt with in an integral manner, with specific issues sensible to the reality of the people receiving benefits and to their social and psychological rehabilitation such as, for example, forgiveness and traditions. In the framework of each thematic unit formative activities, play setup and collective composition are developed, and each unit ends with a public presentation of the developed work.

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Methodology MUSICAL INITIATION ENSEMBLE In each targeted area two groups with 35 boys and girls are created; they receive music lessons (ensemble and vocal practice), four hours a week, for 40 weeks. Each group of 70 children has a pre-orchestra set, which includes traditional instruments from each region and pedagogical materials for the developments of classes directed by a full time teacher and a social manager.

VOCAL PRACTICE In each targeted area four groups with 35 adults each are created: they receive music lessons (vocal practice), four hours a week, for 40 weeks.

Each group of 140 adults receives classes from a full time teacher.

At the end of the process, the students; children and adults; have acquired music reading and writing tools, have practiced with most instruments that are part of the pre-orchestra se, have worked with Latin American repertoire, both children’s and folk and are in capacity of recognizing by hearing symphonic instruments and diverse vocal ensembles. They have also discovered that musical work done, as a team, is a way of learning and transmitting the values that sustain pacific cohabitation.

Coverage During an estimated period of a year, the program will reach 700 boys and girls between 6 and 16 and 1400 adults in ten areas of the country, all of them affected by massacres.

These are the suggested areas: • Peñol, Antioquia • San Pablo, Bolívar • Popayán, Cauca • Chenge en Ovejas, Sucre • El Billar en Cartagena del Chairá, Caquetá • Carmen de Bolívar, Bolívar • Segovia, Antioquia • Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca

• Tierralta, Córdoba • Barrancabermeja, Santander • Calima, Valle del Cauca • Ciénaga, Magdalena • Buga, Valle del Cauca • Samaniego, Nariño • Tocaima, Cundinamarca • Villanueva, Guajira.

Investment The implementation of this project has an estimated cost of 1.500.000.000 pesos.

The project Voices of Hope is one of the many examples of the success of the social mission of National Batuta Foundation. For over 23 years, this institution has given support to vulnerable population and victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. This is a committed and tireless work that wishes to, through art and culture, contribute to the improvement of quality of life, the promotion of art and the search for reconciliation.

MUSIC IN THE LUDIC VENUES OF COLOMBIA

The transforming power of music at the service of life projects Artistic formation, a tool for construction of society Education on and through the arts stimulates cognitive development and makes the mode and contents of learning respond to the needs of modern society. Introducing and fostering artistic education in a musical environment complimentary to the normal school schedule enhances the personality and aptitude development as well as mental and physical capacity thus generating creative societies, sensitive to culture.

Music and future spaces The Ludic Venue project, which is developed in the frame of the Comprehensive Program boys, girls and adolescents with opportunities and coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has the purpose of bringing boys, girls and adolescents living in areas with high influence of illegal armed forces, alternatives different to illegality so as they can develop their potential, generating protective spaces and environments that guarantee the development of adolescents through educational, sport and cultural programs.

The National Batuta Foundation proposes using its capacities in the field of musical teaching to complement the offer of formation activities developed in Ludic Venues. The proposed musical activities will strengthen cohabitation values, self-esteem and sense of responsibility, joining families and widening the institutional educational offer in departments and municipalities where there are high levels of underage-armed recruitment, in an environment that allows best use of these spaces.

Methodology CONVOCATION, DIAGNOSIS AND ENROLLMENT Revision of curriculums. Classification of students into levels, according to auditions. Group selection and creation. Definition of class schedules.

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PURCHASE OF INSTRUMENTS AND ACCESSORIES Purchase process, servicing and delivery of the necessary instruments and accessories for the furnishing of Musical Centers.

BRANCH ADEQUATION Furnishing culture houses in the municipalities where the project will be developed.

MUSICAL FORMATION Development of group classes of musical initiation – ensemble, in times different to the normal school day, at the number of hours per week established in the project.

CONCERT PREPARATION Group rehearsals for the strengthening of the specific musical plays to be presented in the different concerts.

INSTRUMENT UPKEEP Maintenance of the inventory of instruments in Musical Centers.

PARENT MEETINGS Convocation process for parents and guardians, authorization of the Behavior Manual and establishing commitments.

CREATION OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEES Creation of the Committee, definition of functions and responsibilities, programming the meeting chronogram.

MANAGEMENT REPORTS Creation and delivery of periodic project management reports, administrative reports and musical reports.

Coverage This project will benefit 1.780 boys, girls and adolescents from the municipalities of Acandí, Atrato (Yuto), Itsmina and Quibdó in the department of Chocó; San Bernardo del Viento in the department of Córdoba, San José del Guaviare in the department of Guaviare, San Andrés Isla and Providencia in the department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina; Fortul in Arauca, El Bagre in Antioquia, Vista Hermosa in Meta, Puerto Leguízamo in Putumayo and Santa Rosa del Sur in Bolívar.

Investment The implementation of this project will have an approximate cost of over 1.500.000.000 pesos.

The program Music in the Ludic Venues of Colombia, from the National Batuta Foundation for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirms the service vocation of an institution that contributes to the national hopes of peace and reconciliation.

MUSIC FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM

The transforming power of music at the service of early childhood Boys and girls learning more, learning better Creativity, imagination, emotional intelligence and cognitive development are fundamental elements of the learning process that must be stimulated in early childhood. One of the most effective ways to do so is using music as a vehicle and tool. Boys and girls that participate from early childhood in music creation processes strengthen their reading and writing abilities and their capacity of symbolic thought. In addition, early contact with music is a valuable option to use free time and to achieve entertainment through culture.

Allies with a common goal The Santo Domingo Foundation uses the model of Comprehensive Development of Sustainable Communities (DINCS). Its objective is to promote the strengthening of economic, social and environmental capital of communities through the integration of low income and priority housing offer with social infrastructure projects. One of the main components of its labor is the creation of early childhood care centers.

In Barranquilla and Cartagena, the Carulla-AeioTU Doundation runs these centers. The National Batuta Foundation identifies a concrete opportunity to integrate itself to this work of direct social intervention in communities offering their decades-long experience in the creation and implementation of musical teaching methodologies for early childhood, so as to enrich the pedagogical model of these centers where hundreds of boys and girls receive attention.

Three programs are part of the test phase

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The National Batuta Foundation presents the Carulla-AeioTU Foundation a test project that consists in implementing three of their programs for boys and girls between ages 2 to 5.

MUSICAL STIMULATION For boys and girls between ages 2 to 4. Aesthetic perception, creativity and contact with the world that surrounds them are developed through music, fine arts, body expression and children’s literature.

MUSICAL TRANSITION For boys and girls between ages 4 to 5. In them, motor, rhythmic, hearing and language development is stimulated through the contact with preorchestra instruments and vocal work with emphasis on instrumental training with the pre-orchestral set. Through musical practice, motor development, rhythmic ability, vocal and instrumental development; hearing and musical reading and writing, as well as improvisation and musical creation are shaped.

SYMPHONIC INITIATION Designed for boys and girls between ages 4 to 5. This program promotes natural singing, instrumental performance and individual and collective expression in boys and girls. This program is composed by two stages: the Color Orchestra and the lessons with real instruments, where boys and girls become familiar with symphonic instruments.

Test phase coverage This stage of the project will benefit 600 boys and girls between the ages of 2 and 5 cared for under “Institutional Modality” in the AeioTu centers of the Carulla Foundation in Villas de San Pablo, Barranquilla and Ciudad Bicentenario, Cartagena. Through the inclusion of music in their daily lives they can see their comprehensive development process enriched.

Investment The implementation of this project has an approximate cost of over 900.000.000 pesos, with partnership of the Santo Domingo Foundation and the Carulla Foundation.

The Early Musical Initiation Program, of the National Batuta Foundation and the Carulla Foundation is another example that music; its essence and its teaching through professional pedagogical methods, is an invaluable tool for the comprehensive formation and the improvement of the quality of life of children and youths in Colombia.

NETWORK OF CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF COLOMBIA

The transforming power of music at the service of vulnerable communities Music motivates, enriches and shapes Musical education is a powerful that helps to generate self-esteem, motivation and positive leadership skills in boys, girls and youths in extreme poverty situations and in violence victims. Discovering one’s own talent and others’ talent and proving that at the end of a learning process it is possible to give quality results is an effective way of giving back to vulnerable population their capacity of reconciling with their surroundings, as well as learning, setting goals and fulfilling them.

Social responsibility is everyone’s objective The National Batuta Foundation joins the Social Responsibility actions from the Bank of Bogotá, designing and executing a program whose main objective is to intervene in the development of vulnerable communities, generating spaces that promote musical formation processes through the plan of Resident Orchestras.

A successful model This project is based on the model Orchestra-School, designed and successfully implemented in several stages by the National Batuta Foundation.

In this model, based on group musical education, the student has an active participation in the collective musical practice that allows him to develop and test his abilities and permanently exercise knowledge and experiences akin to the musical exercise.

Methodology

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SELECTION OF SYMPHONIC AND CORAL REPERTOIRE A common repertoire is chosen and worked on from February to June 2015.

FOLLOW-UP VISITS National orchestra directors of the Batuta Foundation do periodic follow-up visits to the musical centers of the municipalities participating in the creation of orchestras. In them, they observe and analyze the formative processes of each group. The results of these visits constitute the selection, between February and March 2015, of the 600 students that will compose the five orchestras representing the Pacific, Caribbean, Center, Coffee Belt and Orient regions.

WORKSHOP Between July 1 and 5, 2015, in each of the participating municipalities, 5-day workshops take place. Each workshop is destined for 80 beneficiaries and in them, 3 expert teachers work with sensible aspects of their formative stage.

RESIDENCE In each of the five cities for meeting, 15 workshop facilitators are in charge of handling each one of the orchestras composed by 80 people, during a 5-day period, in the months of September and October.

CONCERT Finally, the project ends with a big concert of the five national representative orchestras, in the city of Bogotá on November 2015. Approximately 1300 people will attend it.

Coverage This program benefits 1440 boys, girls and adolescents, their families and their communities. Five Symphonic Children and Youth regional orchestras are created, with the following distribution: • Caribbean: Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Valledupar, Sincé (Sucre) and Codazzi (Cesar).

• Pacific: Cali, Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), Tumaco (Nariño) and Quibdó.

• Center: Bogotá, Neiva, Villavicencio.

• Coffee Belt: Manizales, Pereira, Armenia.

• Orient: Cúcuta, Villa del Rosario (N. de Santander), Los Patios (N. de Santander) and Barrancabermeja (Santander).

Investment The implementation of this project has a total cost of over 2.000.000.000 pesos, from different funding sources.

This project is one of the many ways in which the National Batuta Foundation intervenes in the creation processes of a country and the strengthening of the idea of nation and identity. It s a medullar project in the compliance of the relative mission to consolidate in Colombia the network of children’s and youth orchestras.

FRONTIER MUSIC: BI-NATIONAL ORCHESTRAS The transforming power of music at the service of fraternal countries.

Music is the language of brotherhood The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Batuta Foundation, with the Border Plan, have strengthened the commitment with integration between Colombia and its neighbors by implementing music training programs for boys, girls and youths in different border municipalities, that besides allowing the development of skills, knowledge and experience regarding music, have also generated tools for a good life in border regions.

Moving to a phase where bi-national orchestras are created not only produces an ideal environment for the integration of border municipalities but also helps strengthen cultural diplomacy between Colombia and surrounding nations.

Brotherhood, companionship and positive alliances The National Batuta Foundation has determined as part of its strategic objectives for 2015-2016 to promote the development of a project that can articulate and consolidate in five bi-national orchestras the integrated and harmonic work of boys, girls and youths in border areas between Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela through the strengthening of musical orchestral training, endowment and maintenance of musical instruments, the realization of concerts and meetings as well as the investigation and development of pedagogical materials.

In its initial phase, the project will be developed in municipalities located along the border with Venezuela, through three main phases:

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TRAINING Musical training. In order to create an integration with the beneficiaries of both countries, there will be a musical training program where students of the neighboring country will attend lessons in Colombia for six hours a week, during 10 months, except in the case of Maicao – Maracaibo.

Workshops. A five-day workshop will be developed, ending with a visibilization concert in each of the border municipalities where orchestras are created.

These workshops will be developed under the lead of 15 music teachers, specializing in symphonic instruments. The teachers’ team will be in charge of developing master classes for each instrument in the symphonic orchestra: practice of the symphonic orchestra repertoire by sections (wind, strings, percussion and choir), and rehearsal of the Symphonic orchestra under the lead of the orchestra conductor.

VISIBILITY AND RELATIONSHIP The Training component comprises the performance of a large-scale concert where the repertoire rehearsed in each of the workshops.

Musical showcase performance is of great importance both in the formative process and in the generation of audiences as it allows self-expression, something that transcends the technique and the knowledge acquired in the training process, contributing with the growth of emotional, social and musical abilities, as well as encouraging self-esteem, self-image and self confidence in boys, girls and adults. In addition, it is noted that in said exercise both the family and the community recognize the hard work, dedication and skills developed during the musical process, which influences a change of perspective regarding people with disabilities and respecting others.

INVESTIGATION In order to capitalize the creation of bi-national orchestras process, an investigation process on the music that join Colombia with Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela will be performed, so as to produce musical material that combines traditional symphonic language with local music. An investigation of a musical and psychologically relevant repertoire will be performed, as well as its subsequent documentation and adaptation to instrumental formats akin to the Batuta methodology.

Coverage This program will benefit 600 boys, girls and youths of the municipalities located in the frontiers between Leticia (Colombia) – Tabatinga (Brazil), Ipiales (Colombia – Tulcán (Ecuador), Arauca (Colombia) – Guasdalito (Venezuela), Villa del Rosario/Los Patios/Cúcuta (Colombia) – San Antonio del Táchira (Venezuela) and Maicao (Colombia) – Maracaibo (Venezuela).

Investment The implementation of this project has a cost of over 250.000.000 pesos.

The program Frontier Music is an example of how to put the experience and leadership of the National Batuta Foundation at the service of integration processes with neighboring countries.

BATUTA MUSICAL TRAINING PROGRAM FOR EXTENDED SCHOOL DAYS

The transforming power of music at the service of comprehensive learning.

More hours, better people The Ministry of National Education is committed in developing Extended School Day in public schools in every municipality of the country, so as to improve student skills in math, sciences and language. The extended school day will increase permanency of students in the educational system, and its advantages and scope will contribute in making Colombia, in 10 years time, the most educated nation in Latin America.

Learning music is only the beginning The National Batuta Foundation presents the Ministry of National Education the test project “Batuta Musical Training Program for Extended School Days”, which seeks to introduce the musical training component in official schools with Extended School Days, with the purpose of strengthening, through music, knowledge areas such as math and language.

Through artistic education, implemented in a musical environment complimentary to regular school hours, this project contributes to enhance the development of mathematical comprehension, logic and set theory and reading; while it helps the students create a musical and rhythm notion.

Methodology This project is based on the Intervention Model of the National Batuta Foundation known as “School-Orchestra”, which is in turn based on group musical education and that, in this particular case, is adapted to the need of strengthening skills in specific knowledge areas in boys, girls and youths.

During the project two musical development programs will be implemented:

Projects 2015

• Musical Initiation Program, for boys and girls between the ages of 6 to 16.

• Choir Program, for boys, girls, adolescents and youths.

In addition to educational activities, two concerts will be performed during the 12 months of the pilot program, and in which students’ evolution will be observed.

Coverage of the pilot phase With this pilot project, 6.000 children; public school students of 12 municipalities in the departments of Antioquia, Bolívar, Caquetá, Chocó, Huila and Valle del Cauca; will be beneficiaries of the project, using music to strengthen their learning process in different knowledge areas.

Investment The implementation of this project has a cost of over 2.800.000.000 pesos.

The Batuta Musical Training Program for Extended School Days is an example of the vocation the National Batuta Foundation has to support national educational policies as well as comprehensive education for boys and girls in school age.

The Plan We are Batuta is a support program for Colombian boys, girls and youths with limited resources who wish to enrich their lives with music and who attend the musical training programs offered by the National Batuta Foundation.

In this plan there are different alternatives to support the mission of the National Batuta Foundation:

For individuals: 500 USD per year: with your support you can grant a scholarship to a child in the musical stimulation, orchestras, choirs or disability programs.

15 USD per year: with your support you can contribute to a fund for the musical stimulation, orchestras, choirs or disability programs.

For companies: From 10.000 USD: with your contribution, you support a Batuta Musical Center.

For international cooperation: From 20.000 USD: with your contribution, you support Batuta’s Network of Children’s and Youth Orchestras.

For more information, please contact: María Claudia Parias Duran Executive President mariaclaudiaparias@fundacionbatuta.org

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Maria del Rosario Torres Pardo Development Manager mariatorres@fundacionbatuta.org

Board of Directors – National Batuta Foundation María Clemencia Rodríguez de Santos First Lady of the Nation

Mariana Garcés Córdoba Minister of Culture

Tatyana Orozco de la Cruz

Department for Social Prosperity Director

Clarisa Ruíz Correal

District Secretary for Culture, Recreation and Sports

Alba Lucía Jaramillo de Duport Carlos Alberto Sandoval Fernando Cortés McAllister Isaac Guberek Sherman José Antonio Vargas Lleras Pablo Gabriel Obregón Santodomingo

National Batuta Foundation María Claudia Parias Durán

Antioquia - Bogotá Division

María Cristina Rivera

Executive President

Luz Amparo Ramírez

Department of Musical Education - Coordinator

Catherine Surace

Camilo Jiménez Vera

National Coordinator - Ensemble

North Division

National Director - Choir

Manager

Adriana Cardona Cano Oscar Larrota Veloza

Manager

Academic Director

Camilo Díaz Tafur

Musical Coordinator

Administrative and Financial Manager

María del Rosario Torres Development Manager

Luisa Isabel Ramírez Yovanny Morales Musical Coordinator

Martha Sofía Rivera Ramón González

Social Management Coordinators

West Division

Luisa F. Cossio Cuadrado

Manager (in charge)

Carlos Suavita García

Mónica Ávila

Marycel Arenas

Musical Coordinator East Division

Fray Martín Contreras Manager

Comunications Office Graphic Design

Jorge Ariza Trujillo Mitchel García

Production Department

Carlos Ramírez

Musical Coordinator

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