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SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Community Musicworks website
Based on the conviction that musicians can play an important public service role, Community MusicWorks has created an opportunity for a professional string quartet to build and transform its own urban community.
Through the permanent residency of the Providence String Quartet, Community MusicWorks provides free after-school education and performance programs that build meaningful long-term relationships between professional musicians, children, and families in urban neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.
In 2006, Community MusicWorks successfully piloted a two-year Fellowship Program in order to share its unique model with interested musicians and urban communities from across the country. A semi-annual Institute for Musicianship and Public Service was added in 2009.
Posted January 2010
The Geriatric Research, Educational, and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Bedford VA Hospital is seeking volunteers to participate in a music program for institutionalized veterans suffering from cognitive impairments, mostly Alzheimer’s disease.
Over the years, we have found that music penetrates the fog of advanced cognitive impairment in a unique and powerful way, unlike any other stimulus. Whenever we are able to provide live music, we see a dramatic response from even our most advanced patients. They often wake up, smile, and interact with the world by dancing, tapping, or humming. Despite the isolation generally associated with their diseases, live music communicates and connects with these patients in even the most extreme cases. It is a remarkable phenomenon; a dramatic demonstration of the power of music and its effects on the human brain.
We hope you consider aiding us in our efforts to provide these veterans with a quality of life that we all can be proud of.
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For more information contact: Andrew Russo,
781-687-3169,
andrew.russo(at)va.gov
Posted March 18, 2010
Medford Schools
Strings players need to help teach string students in the Medford school system or to help out with orchestra rehearsals.
> Please contact: Tony Szykniej (Orchestra Director,
Medford High School),
781-393-2315,
aszykniej(at)medford.k12.ma.us
Posted March 18, 2010
Music National Service website
Music National Service (MNS) is a national nonprofit and movement that supports music as a strategy for public good. MNS recently launched a domestic “musical Peace Corps” called MusicianCorps in four cities – SF/Oakland Bay Area, Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle – where twenty-one MusicianCorps Fellows serve full-time in public schools, parks and recreation centers, children’s and veteran's hospitals, public housing communities and elsewhere in return for a living stipend, health benefits and professional development.
Posted January 2010
NotloB
NotloB Folk Concerts are 100% volunteer run and not for profit. Patron donations go to covering production expenses (rent, sound engineer, green room food, publicity) and paying the artists.
Concerts are a labor of love that require many hours of volunteer labor. Volunteering is fun and very rewarding. Each show requires 3-5 people to set up and take down lighting, receive donations, sell artist merchandise, and set up and take down the green room. Outside concerts, volunteers help with publicity.
Most needed: social media promotion, street team/publicity (specifically someone with access to a color copier), website hosting and administration. In exchange for being selected to assist 4-5 hours/concert doing varied tasks or other approved tasks such as publicity or street teaming, volunteers receive: A seat (when not needed elsewhere), Knowledge how to produce a concert, Something to put on your resume.
> If you have questions or are interested, send email to notlobreservations(at)comcast.net with your qualifications and the concerts you’d like to work.
Posted January 2010
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Work as a music mentor with students in Medford and Somerville Public Schools. Roles include:
> Tutoring new instrumentalists
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Working with music teachers and in existing music programs as an aide
Click here for updated information about mentoring locations and site details.
COMMUNITY MUSIC
Since its opening in February of 2007, the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center has become a resource for the local community. In addition to the regular 150 plus concerts and events presented in the center's Distler Performance Hall and Fisher Performance Room (which are all open to the public to attend), Tufts Music also offers a wide range of other community music programs. These include: Saturday music classes for children and teenagers, weekday evening classes and ensembles for adults, guest workshops with community musicians, a special Sundays at Tufts Community Concert series with a rotating slate of artist and music genres, and Saturday Family and Children's Concerts. Click here for more information.
CREATE A CONCERT OR WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Work with fellow students or your ensemble to bring a concert or workshop to an organization serving the community such as:
- Brookhaven at Lexington Lifecare community
- Lasell Villiage Senior Housing Community
- The Family Center
- Wayside Youth and Family Support Network
- Riverside Community Care
- Elizabeth Peabody House
- YMCA
- Perkins School for the Blind
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- The Clearway School
- Ronald McDonald House
AREA SCHOOLS SERVED BY TUFTS STUDENTS
> Medford Public
> Somerville Public
> Foxboro High School
> Cummings School
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Perkins School for the Blind
For information about Mentorship, Community Music, or creating an outreach event or for more ways to get involved contact Edith Auner at edith.auner@tufts.edu or 617-627-5616
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