At the end of November 2022, we held an ImMusic workshop with international participants, young people from five countries came to us to try out the playful exercises that we developed for youth workers during the project. At the workshop, vocal, rhythmic and instrumental games alternated, at different levels of difficulty. The games were led by experts from the Hangkeltő Foundation: Paula Chelemen, Zsuzsa Búzás, Edit Pálinkás, Melinda Nagy, Ágnes Horváth and Csaba Tőri, based on the descriptions made in the exercise collection.

Our instrumental tasks are more difficult to test because certain locations do not have the right equipment for it. However, if we come to a place where, for example, there are several guitars, and there is someone in the team who can help the others learn the basics of the instrument, we are capable of miracles!

We are already testing our game collection in print so that you will be able to use them as easily as possible. The collection will also be available for download, and you will be able to print out your favorites separately. And then, as you wish, you can staple the sheets together or spiral them as you like. In the first round, 60 games were completed, and we will continue to expand this as more and more ideas come to us. Feel free to send a music game that you think would be useful for young people!

We contacted the staff working at the Blue Elephant (Kék Elefánt) Youth Office and Community Centre on youth development within the framework of the Kecskemét Hírös Agóra, Hungary. At the meeting, in addition to the ImMusic project presentation and the testing of exercises, they presented to us the work of Kék Stúdió, which is part of the EFOP – 3.3.2.-16- 2016-00210 program.

In September 2022, we took part in the Vox Mundi Choir Festival in Timișoara, Romania, where, unusually, the choir festival took place together with an Erasmus+ international meeting. During the program, a number of discussions and workshops were held, in which the participants could learn exercises developed for youth groups, and at the very end, the festival closed with a joint concert. A total of 80 Hungarian, Serbian, Polish and Romanian young people took part in the festival and learned from each other. 

We held a workshop in Köveskál, Hungary, where we mainly tested our rhythmic exercises with the team during the training held for a group consisting mostly of teachers and youth workers. We laughed, sang and clapped a lot at the event, which had a great atmosphere. As a result of the testing, we even developed the exercises even further together with the group.

A week-long music days were held in Kecskemét, in which a mix of Hungarian and foreign music and youth professionals took part. With the group from Poland, we had the opportunity to test many ImMusic exercises, we mainly selected from a collection based on rhythmic and solmization sounds. The training was led by László Durányik, and the location for the program was provided by the Kodály School. In addition, they also viewed the presentation of the school’s children’s choir, which highlighted that there is no age limit for implementing most of the exercises, it can be used with children, young people and even older people alike.

In the ImPulzus Creative Music Lab, ImMusic tasks come up during many sessions, which have already been incorporated into our everyday lives. In individual and group singing sessions, at our Sing&Grow events, at rehearsals before concerts, and at informal meetings, we use the exercises that we collected during the project. Since we deal with quite a large number of people whose lives have so far lacked dealing with music, it is a particularly good feeling to see that our exercises are working.

In July 2022, Edit Pálinkás took part in the Musica Eterna Roma choir competition along with the Aurin Girl’s Choir from Kecskemét. During the festival she had a number of informal discussions, in which she had the opportunity to disseminate the importance of music programs for youth not only in a professional level but for amateurs and beginners, too. There were some promising prospect to build new relationships with youth workers and to integrate a much wider range of programs into the current order of choir festivals. The nature of ImMusic as a bridge between musicians and youth workers was especially manifested here.

After the success of the previous year, we again prepared for the Őrség Contemporary Music Days with interactive singing, this time with the Vox Insana Chamber Choir founded by Csaba Tőri. The event held in Velemér, next to one of the most beautiful medieval church of Hungary, in a beautiful landscape.