music
![Basket Beat Josep Maria Aragay during a Basket Beat workshop.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/basket_beat_1.jpg?itok=GwHmeW_h&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The mastermind behind the Basket Beat project, who is also in charge of it, explains how through group music sessions and a basketball you can explore and develop human skills and abilities.
When we play music, dance or perform we are a small community where, in a limited time and space, the strengths and weaknesses of a group of people interacting cross.
![87% of youths participating in the study were critical towards the values and gender patters displayed in the music they listen to.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/audience-868074_1280.jpg?itok=3DkAecdZ)
Even when recognizing stereotypes and inequalities implicit in songs, teenagers admit that the representations of masculinity and femininity in music influence the way they dress and relate to others.
!['Palestine Beats' aims to give the voice to the Palestinian people and make them present in Catalonia.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/concert_palestina_batega.jpg?itok=2_CSz7l3)
The Catalan Association for Peace wants to bring Palestine closer to Catalan citizens through its most popular cultural expressions.
![Evgenny Konnow, winner of the Jesús Serra foundation's award](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/evgeny-konnov-premi-fundacio-canals_1983411911_52350746_651x366.jpg?itok=SOWMvIWb)
Last March, the Maria Canals piano contest took place in Barcelona. On the same time, the 1st International Conference of Piano Contests united International piano contests' managers.
![A global day of secret Gigs. Source: Amnesty International](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/giveahome.jpg?itok=tZ0WSr_O)
Musicians, refugees and communities are coming together to recognise the things that unite them.
![Andanças festival. Photo by Jose Manuel Costa](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/av6ye1471613793.jpg?itok=U6cTOjsv)
The festival, organised by the PédeXumbo association and where volunteering plays an important role, has been articulating cultural and generational exchanges through folk dances for two decades now.