How music can carry the revolution
Each month the Future Justice programme publishes stories from students and alumni, presenting their visions of the future. Each participant offers a glimpse of a possible future, from their own perspective and artistic practice.
In the second video essay for Future Justice, Ai Nakatsuka shows how music can carry the revolution in a country plagued by conflict and poverty. While pursuing her master’s in Music Therapy at ArtEZ, Ai was involved in the Khartoum Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Project in Sudan. These Sudanese musicians have been fighting for freedom, justice, peace, democracy, and civil rights. Listen to Ai telling their story, and listen to the music of the Khartoum Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Project. A truly remarkable story about music, hope, and courage, against the backdrop of violence, conflict, and poverty.
This is Ai Nakatsuka
Ai Nakatsuka, MA, MT-BC, NMT gained her first bachelor’s degree in social work in Japan and her second bachelor’s in music therapy in the US. After providing music therapy at a facility for individuals with neurological and developmental disabilities in the US for four years, Ai joined a two-year volunteer programme and provided music therapy at a school for students with disabilities in Sudan. While pursuing her master’s in music therapy at ArtEZ, Ai was involved in the Khartoum Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir project in Sudan. She currently resides in Japan, providing music therapy at a facility for children with disabilities.
Future Justice is a programme that has been developed on behalf of ArtEZ Studium Generale and is run by the Aesthetics & Cultures of Technology professorship in cooperation with the Honours Lab.
