SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 28. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The General Directorate for Youth, through the IDEO Foundation, is developing from this month until mid-June a social project whose purpose is to create an educational alternative that is closer to young people with legal measures under the name ICANRAP (Islas Canarias Rap / I can rap).
The objective is to favor their personal development and the prevention of violence, especially gender violence through musical expression.
To do this, they will work on the values of hip hop culture, they will put them into practice through the creation and subsequent production of a rap song, going through all the processes that this entails.
“Our goal is to reach the most vulnerable youth, using their language, in a pleasant and non-imposing way, where music is an incentive to turn their lives around, to regain motivation and enthusiasm,” he says in a note the general director of Youth, Laura Fuentes.
Along these lines, he points out that “despite the fact that juvenile delinquency has experienced a decrease in recent years, there is a prevalence of the male gender in crimes and especially in those that are committed against sexual freedom and that has to do with the differential gender socialization, roles and stereotypes that are promoted from all areas and from a very early age, therefore, education is the best antidote to any criminal activity, as well as to achieve a society based on respect, responsibility and coexistence”.
Thus, ICANRAP will work with young people from the Educational Internment Centers for Minors in Tenerife and Gran Canaria with a methodology that goes “from the paper to the microphone, and from the microphone to the world”.
In this way, training will be provided on the fundamentals of hiphop, the creation of songs, their recording and production, in order to contribute to the prevention of gender violence, their social integration, equality between women and men, discrimination based on sexual characteristics or orientation, gender identity or expression, racial or ethnic origin, disability, or diversity.
The training will be given by Idaira Trejo and David Cárdenes. Idaira Trejo is a nurse, music therapist and composer, with professional studies at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with experience in the social field in conducting musical workshops and David Cárdenes is a music producer and composer, with studies and experience as a sound technician in events and audiovisual productions.
The program is organized by the General Directorate of Youth through the Fundación Canaria de Juventud IDEO and is financed with funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence.
