Grantee Database
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$17,100.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Street Symphony musicians would serve as Teaching Artists under the leadership of a Composer-In-Residence, training up to 8 Artists in Community – members of the homeless community of Skid Row. These participants would learn vital musical skills and tell their stories through newly created works, ultimately becoming featured performers with Street Symphony ensembles in events at The Midnight Mission, sharing their music and personal stories.
Organization Summary
Street Symphony musicians provide regular performance and workshop programs to shelters, reentry facilities and clinics in Skid Row, LA County jails, and state prisons. In the last 14 years, Street Symphony groups, composed of leading choral, instrumental, Son Jarocho, Mariachi, and jazz musicians in Los Angeles, have presented over 1500 unique programs, reaching 25,000 people affected by homelessness, incarceration, and poverty in LA. Each engagement is a musical performance as well as an opportunity for dialogue, human connection, and storytelling. Street Symphony also hosts a renown yearly event known as The Messiah Project, a community singalong performance of Handel’s beloved “Messiah,” with community artists as choristers, and even composers and soloists.
Organization
Street Symphony
Address
1001 Wilshire Boulevard PMB 2258
Los Angeles
90017
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(213) 222-6221
Congressional District
34th Congressional District
State Assembly District
District 54
State Senate District
District 26
