Welcome to the 14th Community Music Activity Commission in wonderful Salvador, Brazil. The theme of the 2014 seminar is Listening to the World: Experiencing and connecting the knowledge from community music. This event involves all delegates and their institutions, Brazilian universities, local communities and government, promoting a dialogue to reflect on ideas and actions with the goal of developing an education of good quality music in different contexts. For Brazil, this Seminar has a special motivation, once the Ministry of Education has included the music as curriculum content in the Brazilian educational system.