Musiklabel !K7 X Ernst-Reuter-Schule
Musiklabel !K7 X Ernst-Reuter-Schule
One of the key outcomes of our Diversity & Inclusion work at !K7 was a wish amongst all staff to forge closer links with the local community. The Berlin HQ is situated in Wedding, a vibrant and multicultural area, which also has some of the highest rates of inequality in the city. There was a general feeling amongst staff that they should do much more to engage with the local community and to learn from and share knowledge with neighbors.
This is the background in which they reached out to our school to discuss developing a partnership. A group of !K7 staff were connected with the Class 8.31’s Music & Drama teacher. Together they discussed the various possibilities for working alongside the students and settled on a weekly programme of lessons and activities for the 2021-2022 school year with the aim to write, compose and produce music for release.
We happy to annouce that this a sustainable partnership and the programme will continue with a new 8th grade in the school year of 2022-2023. The idea is to show the students, aged 13 and 14, the creative process for music production as well as providing insight into marketing, production, release processes and the music industry in general.