Summer@CHNP

For one month, the young people of Orangerie 3 at the rehabilitation clinic will have the opportunity to collaborate with Marta Pinto, Patrick Miranda, and Thomas Faber on a unique artistic and musical project. Three times a week, they will work together to create a song and an art exhibition, where music and visual arts will influence one another in an immersive creative process.

In October, on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, we invite you to a special opening event. It will be a chance to discover the young participants' artworks while listening to the song they composed. The theme? It’s theirs to define — for a truly free and authentic form of expression.

For a month, teenagers from the Rehaklinik's Orangerie 3 will be working with Patrick Miranda and Maz Univerze three times a week to write a song, create a story and an animated video on a theme of their choice. In collaboration with these artists and a graphics studio, the teens will be encouraged to use papercut, an animation drawing technique, to create their own video based on a story they will have developed themselves. 

The aim of the project is to free up young people's voices, give them a platform to express themselves, and introduce them to the music and animation professions. 

The text and music have now been completed, and the animated clip will be released on 14 October 2024, to coincide with Mental Health Week. This superb project has been a resounding success, and the young people have really enjoyed it. 

In 2022, the young people had already written a song called 'La vraie vie', for which they won the 'Jugendpräis 2023'. 
 

During the workshops, these young people will created masks, costumes and characters that represented them. There were no limits to the creation of their own universe.

The impact of creating a musical object helps to rebuild self-esteem through the achievement of a concrete project. It helps to boost self-confidence and shows people as human beings before people with mental health issues. In this way, musical practice becomes a place for socialisation that can be a laboratory for experimenting with psychological therapy.

The young patients in juvenile psychiatry of the CHNP had the opportunity to write a rap text, accompanied by the rapper Forsan, but also to create a choreography around their song and music thanks to the dancer Marc Folschette, and to shoot a video of it.

In this project from the Fondation EME, music participated to fight against one's own isolation.

The video got published on our platform during the mental health week.

For two weeks, the 12 teenagers living at the CHNP benefited from a training where they learned hip-hop. The youngsters were able to write their own texts and present them at the end.

The objective of this training was to give them a new self-esteem and a way to communicate their fears, dreams and problems.