PART 3: Involvement of the Community 

Classic is fantastic! The main objectives of the event are to instill the love of music in young people, make classical music accessible and educate young people in the spirit of harmony and understanding among people. The programme focuses on concerts and encourages the audience’s interactive participation. Its live performances organised by George Enescu Filarmonica institute addressed young people in Bucharest when it started in 2012. The programme focuses on live concerts where the audience benefit from concrete explanations and are encouraged to participate (by asking questions or answering the moderator’s questions, demonstrating their feelings through drawings, miming or dancing while listening to music). The main idea of this project is that music strengthens concentration, memory, joy for life, tolerance, wellbeing and motivation to be a better person. It stimulates linguistic, musical, logical visual and interpersonal intelligences.

Alecart section in the FILIT Event (Iasi International Festival of Literature and Translation) - The Alecart magazine has published young people’s opinions on a wide range of topics (inclusion, diversity, life, communism, achievements, happiness vs unhappiness, and wellbeing) and their literary works since 2008. The FILIT event aims at promoting young talents and their literary works as well as developing young people’s creative and critical thinking skills and instilling the love of books and reading in young participants. The event educates and helps young people to find their own voice in society and fully contribute to its development.

Secondly, teachers are perceived as partners (and facilitators) in the project, which empowers students to actively initiate and successfully carry out all plans. Alecart has become a model of education which addresses not only students’ academic performance but also their emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual development. It helps students increase their self-esteem, confidence and wellbeing and develop a deep love of lifelong learning across socio-cultural and educational contexts. Alecart encourages students to explore not only literary texts but also contemporary social issues (inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism). Alercart sessions have provided students with lessons about inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism.