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Sistema Fellowship Resource Center Report
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NEC’s decision to reinvest in the fifty alumni of the Sistema Fellows Program created an exciting opportunity to deepen the relationships that had begun on campus. The creation of the Resource Center also presented me with an opportunity to learn the stories of the Fellows from the first three classes... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Wednesdays at Kroger
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Laura Jekel, Sistema Fellow '11 and founder of MyCincinnati, has been experimenting with creating opportunities for broad community engagement by showing up with her cello on Wednesday afternoons at the Price Hill Kroger. Read about her project by enlarging the image below. Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Playing for Their Lives
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Eric Booth, Senior Advisor to the Sistema Fellows Program, and Tricia Tunstall, author of Changing Lives, have jointly produced a new book about how the global El Sistema-inspired movement is exploring the intersection of music education and social change. Available on Amazon beginning September 13. Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition
On July 5th, four students from UNC Charlotte performed, and I presented at a special session of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition in San Francisco. ICMPC accorded us an exceptional honor, providing airfares for the students (my participation was supported by NEC's Sistema Fellowship Resource Center) and... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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The importance of having an artistic community
In academic medicine, the accepted pathway to success is to take a pretty traditional route—run a lab, teach medical students, and practice clinical medicine. Nobody tells you that this is the “accepted” pathway to “success,” but it’s pretty much understood. After all, culture is dictated by what is unsaid more... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Impact Without Burnout: Lessons Learned at the AFTA conference
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As arts leaders, our roles often require us to go beyond the “9-to-5” workday. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see arts leaders working 12, 14, or even 16-hour days on a regular basis to get everything done. While it may seem necessary, the truth is that it’s not okay,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Creative Ability Development Workshop
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I was fortunate enough to recently attend the Creative Ability Development Workshop in Ventura, California, in large part due to Andrea Landin '13 (pictured below), Alice Kanack, and the New England Conservatory. So what is Creative Ability Development (CAD) and how is it useful in the El Sistema context? CAD... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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El Sistema and Creative Placemaking
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"Creative Placemaking" and "El Sistema" are relatively new terms referring to strategies for transforming communities and changing lives. These strategies have been in use for decades, but only in recent years have these two terms emerged to identify these established ways to address community and social issues. The Kresge Foundation... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Interactive technology and formative assessment tools
The intent of the Innovation Grant that I received from the Sistema Fellowship Resource Center last fall was to implement a peer-mentoring program and formative assessment tools that teach youth how to use online technology, including SmartMusic, and become more self-directed and confident. This grant also helped me grow in... Continue reading
Posted Jun 15, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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AMP finalist for national youth arts award
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"The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and its cultural partners – the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services – are proud to recognize 50 outstanding programs all over the country for their work in... Continue reading
Posted Jun 15, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Incorporating the Orff Approach?
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Last summer I participated at the International Orff Course “The Singing Garden” in Pilsen, Czech Republic with the generous support of the Sistema Fellowship Resource Center. Why Orff? At the Take a Stand conference in Los Angeles in 2014, I was very impressed by the performance of Youth Orchestra of... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Reflection on Reframing El Sistema
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The recent Reframing El Sistema conference in Baltimore featured a rich program of both scholars and practitioners discussing the potential directions in which El Sistema-inspired work is or might be heading. As someone who has been actively involved in a variety of El Sistema convenings over the past several years... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Knowing your community
The Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Awareness conference in Chicago left me with awe. True awe, the jaw-dropping, mind-blowing "wow," so bear with me as I struggle to articulate the experience into a blog entry. First off to hear words like "evaluation" and "holographic" in the same sentence was certainly a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Music and Universal Design for Learning
After four years of teaching elementary music, I still felt unsatisfied by my lack of knowledge in music and special education, my two areas of interest and passion. During my Sistema fellowship year, I spent the vast majority of my time exploring and questioning “inclusion.” What does inclusion mean? What... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Reframing "Expertise"
The recent Reframing El Sistema Conference at the University of Maryland Baltimore County aimed to connect “the evolving practice and research of social impact through music.” The conversation on Friday, April 8th (the only day I was able to attend) at first lent itself to the field’s most enduring questions... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Modeling the Artist part of Teaching Artist
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This spring I had the opportunity to arrange and perform John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil together with our resident performing ensemble at Community MusicWorks. I had wanted to play The Protecting Veil ever since I first heard a recording of the piece as a college student and was drawn in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Arts Education Learning Exchange reflection
Many El Sistema-inspired initiatives in the U.S have moved out of start-up mode and have begun asking deeper, more complex questions. We are asking these questions in our respective cities and as a field. "How can we increase the amount of students we serve, enhance quality, and become financially stable... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Three kinds of arts learning experiences
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The group that convened at the Arts Learning Exchange in San Diego came from diverse backgrounds and organizations--from school districts, to city arts councils, to El Sistema-inspired programs, to a variety of arts education nonprofits. It was refreshing to broaden our perspectives of the larger world of education and arts... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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AMP's guest conductor
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On March 12, Jose Luis Hernandez-Estrada, Sistema Tulsa director and Sistema Fellow '12, was the guest conductor for the Atlanta Music Project's winter concert. (Photos by Anthony Alston, Jr.) Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Harmony Project Phoenix in action
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Photos courtesy of Diogo Pereira, Harmony Project Phoenix Program Director and Sistema Fellow '13 Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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The Ensemble, March edition
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The March edition of Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth's publication chronicling the emerging field of El Sistema-inspired activity in the US and beyond is found here. Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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YAMA featured on PBS Newshour
The curtain almost fell for YAMA in 2015 when the grant that provided much of its funding ran out. The Yakima Symphony Orchestra stepped in and saved it temporarily. [Founder Stephanie Hsu, Sistema Fellow '12] said she wants to keep YAMA going as a freestanding nonprofit — not because she... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Service residency reflection
Throughout these experiences I largely took a backseat – quite literally at times, in the rear of the ensembles plunking away on piano or trying desperately to regain my long-abandoned horn playing technique in a section of musicians half my height but twice my competence on the instrument. But from... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Reunion video message #2
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Video: Reunion video message #2 (14 MB) Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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Reunion video message #1
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Video: Message to Sistema Fellows (43 MB) Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2016 at Exploring El Sistema
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