Introspection Music Experience (IME) is a European project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme (Sub-programme: Culture) of the European Commission. It is implemented by Fundacion Intras (Spain), Kunstatelier Opperstraat - KAOS (BE) and Kinonikes Sineteristikes Drastiriotites Efpathon Omadon – EDRA (GR).

IME brings together artists with and without psychiatric vulnerabilities from Greece, Belgium and Spain. It seeks to support the music sector by promoting emerging artists, capture grassroots stories, develop new audiences and keep music diversity alive. We will do this by:

• promoting co-production between musicians with and without mental health issues, bringing richer and more significant life experiences for all;
• redefining music by incorporating grassroots non-mainstream experiences;
• attracting new audiences among those groups of people who are underrepresented. IME will promote identification, bringing music closer to mental illness and mental illness closer to music;
• promoting the mobility of emerging artists and supporting them to make their living out of the music, through training and the redesign of their traditional creative approaches

Website: https://www.ime-project.com/                                                                             

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