A second chance
Good news from Jonas students and leaders!
Eteri, vocal and piano student, will soon begin her studies in German Literature (Tbilisi State University).
Eric, piano student at the Jonas School of Music in Tbilisi, has successfully passed his entrance examinations for medical studies.
We are also very pleased with Dachi Taktakishvili et Natia Beraia Taktakishvili, the leaders of our project. They both received their PhD degrees in music at the Ilia University of Tbilisi!
Our music lessons at the Collège Pierre-de-Geyter in Paris St-Denis (Principal Stéphane Mercy) are very popular. Classes for the new term will start on september 23rd – with our new music teacher!
Putting his focus on guitar and piano lessons, our new teacher Takfarinas Barkou (MSc Mathematics and Musicology) is very much looking forward to the coming school term!
It was a somewhat special end of term concert. Open air, in the beautiful Tibetan Peace Garden, with lots of space – but no audience invited!
Due to corona restrictions, the concert could only take place in a mini group – almost without a direct audience. For you, the most important audience was a camera: So you can now, at any time, listen to the concert, including some city background sound.
The spring semester is now over. With lockdown, online music lessons, improvisation: «What a term it was… !!!» — «Thank you ever so much for all the fabulous teaching this term, and well done for the dedicated practice and perseverance !»
20th – 25th July, with Romani children.
Direction: Revd. Ivan and Anna Morunov, Methodist Church in Bulgaria.
«It was a happy week with lots of joy! Swimming, delicious food, games and thinking about our Creator and creation. In this way we were able to give Roma children a little joy in their sometimes difficult situation.
The Bridge of Hope Children’s Centre and of course the children of the camp thank the Jonas Foundation for their support!»
Sébastien Loyo has received another diploma for his virtuosity on the saxophone – congratulations !
Sébastien likes to deal with current and past topics in music. In his Matura thesis (in 2017, presented as a musical stage play) he has worked on n issue that is highly topical today: «Blues – colours of words, music of hope: The social development of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries».
Violence and discrimination of any kind affect us deeply. Especially these days.
The Jonas Foundation is committed to the respect of all people, whatever their origin or condition!
In 2017, Sébastien Loyo, a youngster of the Jonas Group in Geneva, wrote his maturité diploma thesis on a civil rights topic: The Social Evolution of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th Centuries – The Civil Rights Movement in the United States with Martin Luther King.
The presentation was in form of a musical: «Blues – Colour of Words – Music of Hope». His work has touched the public deeply.
As you can read in «Aims and origins» of the Jonas Foundation:
The Jonas Foundation aims, through music and the performing arts to promote cultural integration and cross-cultural understanding among students and help offer the children a greater perspective in how to fulfil their greater potential, thereby having a better opportunity to transcend many of the difficulties they are faced with in their daily lives.
In these difficult times… Thank you all for your peace-supporting commitment! Whether it was through a diploma thesis or otherwise, with Roma children, with elderly people or elsewhere, with children, to whom you brought creativity, hope and joy: THANK YOU!
PS:
We wish good concentration to those who are in exam period!
The Jonas Foundation, along with other charities (Erayim Aid Trust UK and other charities) helps in the distribution of wheat to needy families.