Families and their children will offer a musical performance featuring all they have learned during this programme at the Auditorio de Tenerife.
The Coro Canguro of the Auditorio de Tenerife concludes its first edition this Friday (November 5) at 6 p.m. in the Chamber Hall. This new initiative by the Educational and Social Affairs Department highlights the progress made during the 10 musical sessions held from September. Around 40 adults, some of whom are expecting, and about 20 babies and toddlers from 10 local towns have been actively involved. Entry is free until the total capacity is reached.
This new artistic and musical initiative for early childhood is carried out through sessions that include instrumental music, as well as vocal and physical activities. The pioneering and free initiative was fully booked within just two days.
Coro Canguro is built on solid theoretical principles and uses a methodology developed by Grandes Oyentes, an organisation that unites families, artists, and musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. Based on the benefits of music, voice, movement, and creation, Coro Canguro fosters a healthy environment for growth for infants and their adults. It also encourages creative, enjoyable experiences through structured choir and recording sessions, workshops, and concerts that spotlight artists and families.
The professionals in charge of Grandes Oyentes, María Magdalena Sánchez and Yeray Ruiz, have led the session with piano and voice, working with the children in pairs or individually and, at all times, focusing on interaction with the youngest. The hall where the activities took place had been adapted to meet the families’ needs, with carpeting and cushions, facilities for securing prams, changing rooms and adjacent halls in silence.
The programme is available to families (parents, caregivers and families) with children, from new-born infants to toddlers of up to two years of age, as it seeks to work with children who have not yet learned to walk, and to pregnant women who are expecting to give birth after the project’s last event.
The Educational and Social Department of the Auditorio de Tenerife is associated with RESEO, the European Network for Opera, Dance and Music Education, and the Spanish Network of Organisers of Educational Concerts (ROCE). This department was established to provide arts and creative opportunities to all citizens, focusing particularly on school students and individuals at risk of social exclusion.
One of the objectives is to nurture the relationship between artistic and cultural activities and how they are conveyed to society, and to encourage space for building a relationship between art and people. Its main idea is for art to make an unquestionable contribution to social well-being, the recognition of individual and collective identity, training, and critical thinking needed for mature democratic social coexistence.