Grantee Database

STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,250.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Street Symphony will present its 8th annual Messiah Project in partnership with The Midnight Mission, Downtown Women’s Center, and the Skid Row Arts Alliance. The event will include 3 series of 8-12-week music workshops throughout Skid Row facilities to co-compose new pieces of music centering the voices and narratives of people living in Skid Row with experiences of homelessness, incarceration, and reentry. Impact Project support from the California Arts Council will also empower Street Symphony to continue providing all musicians and performers, including systems-impacted community members, with a professional honorarium for the world-class artistic contributions.

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

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