Chicco Sband
The activities
currently carried out in the music workshops provide both individual and group
therapy. Individually, music allows for very different degrees of
intellectual disabilities, musical skills and needs, and to refine individual
skills. In a group context, music helps to build relationships and communication
and teamwork skills. Because of these, the performances that the
musical group of the community, the Chicco Sband, frequently
perform are also very important.
In working with
people with serious mental and/or physical discomfort, music therapy represents
useful therapy and rehabilitation. It stimulates the rhythmic areas of the
brain and, consequently, the motor responses and reflexes. It also produces
changes in muscle tone and breathing that predispose the person to a greater
openness towards the other and any further therapy to which they must undergo (ex:
physiotherapy).
Chicco Sband was
born in 2011 both with the aim of increasing the skills of people with
different abilities, integrating different skills, and of spreading knowledge,
integration, and the enhancement of disability. These values are the basis of
life at the il Chicco community and constitute an important seed for the
development of a more humane society. The goal of Chicco Sband is to make
people visible, regardless of ability, and their love for making music
together.
While the musical
pieces chosen include melodies that can be easily memorized and reproduced, instructors
insert gradual elements of difficulty to
enrich the musical competence of each person and improve some skills. The
pieces often work on awareness of time, increasing the personal level of
attention and concentration as well as modulation of muscle tension through the
presentation of pieces with different rhythms, variations in speed, and stop-recovery-stop
sequences within the song itself. These characteristics make the pieces
easy to use and foster strong involvement from the public, who are invited to
different musical traditions and experiments produced by individuals of all
abilities using instruments of various origins.
In recent years,
the Chicco Sband has performed in numerous venues (schools, parishes, parties,
meetings) both in the Rome area and in other cities. Chicco Sband has also
performed concerts specifically for schools, in particular in Ciampino and in
the VII Town Hall. In addition to the VII Town Hall, the Chicco Sband has
also performed in various parishes (San Gaspare del Bufalo, San Giuda Taddeo,
San Bernardo da Chiaravalle).
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