Open Call: A song about the pandemic

Which are the teenagers’ considerations concerning the Covid-19? How the pandemic has affected their everyday life? How do they imagine their post-Covid life? In a short while, the emergence of the new coronavirus changed all our habits. Restriction orders, ranging from lockdown to the mandatory use of masks, provoke so many diverse reflections and feelings. How these feelings develop during puberty and adolescence?

At these hard-pandemic times, music proves to have a healing effect. The Onassis Foundation, through this open call, invites teenagers to write down how do they reflect upon, and feel about the current situation. The outcome will inspire a song, which the teenagers will pen along with the Greek urban pop group REC, while during a teleconference the physician Sandy Kolovos will inform the teenagers on important issues regarding the new coronavirus.

Join us to collectively pen a song about the pandemic. Send your reflections and ideas and REC will turn them into lyrics and music.

Submission Deadline: 28.02.2021

Submit your text and/or image

Addressed to

Teenagers, 12 to 17-years-old

Credits

REC music group

Sandy (Kyriaki) Kolovos, Nephrologist & Intensive Care Specialist
Nephrology & Kidney Transplant Clinic
University of Athens Medical School
Laiko General Athens Hospital

Timeline

A song about the pandemic. Follow all dates:

December 2020

Open Call – Applications are running
Applications deadline: 28 February, 2021

March 2021

1st Meeting
Saturday, March 13, 2021 | 18:00 – 20:00

Meet & Greet / First online meeting between the teenagers and the band REC

2nd Meeting
Saturday, March 20, 2021 | 18:00 – 20:00

Second online meeting between the teenagers and REC, along with the physician Sandy Kolovos who will inform them on important issues concerning the new coronavirus.

3rd Meeting
Saturday, March 27, 2021 | 18:00 – 20:00

Third online meeting with the teenagers, presentation of the lyrics, and premiere of the song.