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Rural Community Partnership Program
In 1992 Orchestra Nashville created a Rural Community Partnership Program providing educational programs and community concert events for a network of Tennessee rural communities. Sixteen communities, including Ashland City, Columbia, Hartsville, McKenzie, McMinnville, Paris, Mount Pleasant, Springhill and Woodbury have been served.
ENCORE Project
Orchestra Nashville created the interactive ENCORE Project (East Nashville Concert OutReach & Education) in partnership with NashvilleREAD, presenting programs that developed creative thinking skills in young adults working to achieve their GED certification at inner-city community learning centers. The program concluded with a concert and luncheon in East Nashville honoring the student’s participation. This program was featured at the 1997 National Family Literacy Conference in Louisville, KY, as a model of integrating the arts into family literacy programs.
Bend In the River
Orchestra Nashville was the lead organization for a six-member educational project consortium that included the Tennessee Dance Theatre, National Shakespeare Festival, the Nashville African American Artists Association, the Visual Artists Alliance of Nashville and the Nashville Independent Film Festival. This project, titled Bend In The River, was during the 2000-01 season and led students in schools all over Nashville to create personal statements through music, dance, film, paintings and drama of their dreams for the future at the turn of the millennium. The National Endowment for the Arts supported this project with a $25,000 grant, their largest project grant to any Tennessee arts group that season.
The Choices We Make
In 2002, Orchestra Nashville was invited to be an “ArtsSmart” group as part of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s unique H.O.T. education program. That season, over 4,000 students heard Orchestra Nashville’s The Choices We Make program, which used improvisation and the choices soloists and composers make as the backdrop for challenging students to embrace the choices they have in life, and to feel good about expressing their individual voices. |
