EMCY was selected to receive a promotional award for intercultural dialogue.
The Pill Mayer Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue, based in Wolfegg in the Allgäu (DE), was founded ten years ago to contribute to the encounters between people from different cultures. In particular, it promotes intercultural and cultural projects for children and young people and advocates intercultural and interreligious learning.
The Pill Mayer Foundation wanted to celebrate 10 years with a generous award, for a decade now, the Foundation has been campaigning for intercultural dialogue and it was time to reward those who first hand shared this value.
The Foundation took this anniversary as an occasion and awarded three awards. The prizes are awarded digitally on April 17th 2021, the day the foundation was established.
The award for EMCY goes to the “Musical Storytelling” project Classic meets rap (first edition 2020).
Participants in the musical workshop were young refugee musicians from Munich and young EMCY Prize winners from all over Europe. Most of the participants are classically trained, aspiring professional musicians who already have won one national or international music competition.
The workshop culminates in a stage-ready performance with a repertoire mix of classic as well as improvisation and rap. Making music together, the creative artistic exchange and respectful teamwork at eye level is what characterizes this intercultural project.