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«Musik, Theater, Freude» – SOS Children’s Villages, Berlin

0906_berlin_71c1eda1acEvery Tuesday we meet between 4pm and 6pm in the rooms of the Parish in Berlin-Moabit and work together on a joint music and theatre project. Last Christmas we performed a Christmas play which brought great joy to the children and helped them to sense more and more the group that they now a part of.

Since the beginning of 2009 we have been working on piece about Händel and his organ, which doesn’t want to do what he wants. The Organ pipes do not want to be in the dark anymore and rebel. Finally they find a joint solution and get to join Händel on his travels. The performance took place on the 21 June 2009 as part of the Parish festivities.

Jonas Foundation BerlinThe goal of our work is to allow each child to develop the talents that they have as far as possible while at the same time integrating them in the group activities. By creating their own music and theatre project the children learn to realise their own creative ideas and go beyond their previous boundaries in a protected environment.

We provide the space and help the children to let their abilities unfold.

Robin Hood at a fundraising concert

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A successful fundraising concert took place on June 14th 2013 for the Jonas Foundation project at SOS-Kinderdorf Berlin Moabit.

A band of robbers meet at a campfire in the dark woods and long for their friend Robin Hood. The robers disguise themselves and go out to find him. They look for him at the market place, where they meet buskers, they look for him at the royal court, where they meet the King and listen to lute music by John Dowland, but they can’t find him.
When they finally get back to the forest, it is to find, that meanwhile he has been to their lair and has left a bag of gold for them. They share their gold  with everyone and are happy to have such a good friend.

The Team

Jonas Foundation Berlin
Voice training: Christiane Mikoleit
Guitar lessons, organisation: Daniel Kurz
Concept, direction, organisation: Friederike Rinne-Wolf
Address: SOS-Kinderdorf Berlin-Moabit, Waldstr. 23/34, 10551 Berlin
MusikTheaterFreude@web.de

News

  • Carolina: Master’s thesis!
  • 4th February, Gstaad: Fundraising Concert
  • Océane Masters degree and Prix Arditi!
  • Jerusalem: Jonas Alumni at the «Alleluia» festival
  • Jonas student at the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague

Special piano concerts – CD available


The CD of a concert of Rati Skhirtladze’s (13 years) and his teachers Natia Beraia Taktakishvlili and Dachi Taktakishvili is available – order here: info@jonasfoundation.org
The concerts took place in Switzerland (Berne, Bioley-Magnoux, Geneva) from 12th to 15th March 2015.
On the program: Liszt, Chopin, Ravel, Lagidze.

Donations

You would like to donate? More informations you can find here.

Middle East

Drama workshops in Ramallah (Kathy Bergen, Faten Khoury) – Read more

Milman Center, Haifa

Musictherapy for children suffering from autism at the Milman Center, Haifa. Read more

Armenia: Integration of disabled children

The Jonas Foundation supports the project “Art for Inclusion” in Armenia. Documentary films: "I am a hero", "If you have wings" and "Only love". Read more

Paris-StDenis, France

The Jonas Music Class at Collège Pierre-de-Geyter, StDenis, France. Read more

London Music School

Read more about our music school.

Puzzle «Creation»

«The Creation», a painting in form of a huge puzzle! A piece of art put together by handicapped children and children from the Bernese Oberland (summer 2007). During the International Year 2008 of the Earth, «The Creation» was hosted by the International Airport Geneva at Gate A8. Read more

June 2006: UN Human Rights Council

Jonas Choir UN Geneva
19th June: The «Jonas Singers» sing with the «Petits Chanteurs de la Cathédrale» at the first Session of the Human Rights Council, United Nations, Geneva. Young singers from countries as varied as Iran, Zimbabwe, Angola, Rwanda, Cameroun, Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, have been invited to sing at the first Session of the Human Rights Council.

Jonas Foundation · CH–1407 Bioley-Magnoux · info@jonasfoundation.org