Tenerife will host the annual conference of the ROCE Network of Organisers of Educational and Social Concerts from 23 to 25 April.
The ROCE conference will be held from 23 to 25 April at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The event features a series of lectures, talks, debates, and workshops focused on the future of the Ministry of Culture of Spain’s plan to defend cultural rights. The Spanish Network of Organisers of Educational and Social Concerts (ROCE) has programmed the events to provide time and space to reflect on what is needed to programme socio-educational activities.
Under the motto “Tenemos un plan, ¿y ahora qué? La música como derecho cultural” (We have a plan, now what? Music as a cultural right.), domestic and international experts will come together on the island for three days. The General Director of Cultural Rights at the Ministry of Culture, Jazmín Beirak, will give an opening speech on Wednesday, 23 April, at 10 a.m. in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio.
The conference is for the heads of education and social initiatives of cultural authorities; creators; professionals in the fields of music, research, musicology, education, psychology and cultural mediation; heads of social groups; social workers and anyone interested in the subjects to be addressed at this 16th ROCE conference.
Those who wish to attend the events may sign up through the association’s website until 18 April: www.rocemusica.org/encuentro-roce-2025
The conference in Tenerife is already a milestone in the history of ROCE conferences, as it will be the first time European experts will participate in the event’s scientific committee. Hence, on this occasion, the committee will comprise the staff of the Auditorio de Tenerife, representatives of ROCE and RESEO (European Network for Opera, Music and Dance Education). Guest speakers include the presidents of ROCE, Silvia Carretero, and RESEO, Vania Cauzillo, the executive director of Latin American Opera (OLA), Paulina Ricciardi, and the president of the Spanish Association of Symphonic Orchestras (AEOS), María Antonia Rodríguez.
ROCE is a not-for-profit association of institutions and public and private organisations that was created to oversee its member organisations’ educational and social initiatives. Its objective is to foster the creation of educational and social services or departments in orchestras, auditoriums, venues, foundations, music and dance festivals and other institutions that programme socio-educational concerts and educational undertakings involving music, opera and dance.
In recent years, ROCE has reached out to this broad cross-section of individuals and groups not typically part of the public attending musical events. Their backgrounds represent different sectors and aspects of society, such as social issues, economic matters, culture, gender, race, beliefs, and education, among others, which often constitute visible and/or invisible barriers that adversely affect or prevent their normalised access to live music events and other artistic manifestations.