Take Me to the River Education Initiative

Take Me to the River Bay Area Education Initiative seeks to inspire a deeper understanding of history, culture, and the meaning of cross-generational, cross-gender and inter-racial collaboration through music, mentorship, and the power of positive expression. The program serves underserved students and communities, emphasizing the power of breaking down barriers through communication and the arts. TMTTR Education Bay Area Initiative believes the message of communication, cooperation, and collaboration provides opportunity to produced the foundation of a lasting harmonious community. The program teaches students the power of positive forms of expression through music and film. It will also provide unique touch points to enter into conversations about history and chronicling culture, and how it plays an important role in Civil Rights, social, economic, and political issues. The Initiative's partner, Berklee College of Music, has been instrumental in creating programs and curriculum.

The long term impacts of the Take Me to the River Bay Area Education Initiative are vast. Students can take the skills, connections, the mentoring, knowledge, and professional experience gleamed from our program as they move into possible careers as professional musicians or any field of their choosing. They will always have the support and connection to our group of master mentor musicians and access to our network.

Truly, the goal of the program is to make students realize that have options, that there are possibilities. That there are other ways to interact and to create that are positive and strong. These are messages and realizations that can inspire them to move in positive directions, both in the arts and in life in general.

Students will have the ability to be contributors of the foundations of lasting community.

Vision

Empowerment, Positive Expression, Community Building

Our vision is to communicate the power of positive expression through music, film, and art. The power of communication and cooperating so that you can collaborate provides a permanent foundation for harmonious community, and therefore continued fellowship. To inspire students living in challenging times to realize they have worth and that they can work together to repair rifts in our communities.

Take Me to the River Education Initiative

Take Me to the River Education Initiative

Model and Strategy

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Leadership

Martin Shore