Broken Dreams, Better Worlds: The Arts for Hope | André de Quadros | TEDxBU

Human rights activist and arts educator, André de Quadros, tells powerful stories of the ways in which the arts provoke imaginary worlds. Dr André de Quadros is a music educator, conductor, scholar, and human rights activist. His professional work has taken him to the most diverse settings in over 40 countries, spanning professional ensembles, and projects with prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees and asylum-seekers, poverty locations, and victims of torture, sexual violence, and trauma. He is a professor of music at Boston University and is also affiliated with the university's Center for Antiracist Research, the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, and The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He directs ensembles in Indonesia, Jerusalem, Boston, Sri Lanka,
and the Mexico-US border. He is co-founder of The Choral Commons, an international media platform. In 2019, he was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens College, University of Cambridge. He is the 2021 recipient of Chorus America's Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his work in social justice. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx