I'm in Los Angeles this week visiting the Education and Community Programs at the L.A. Opera. I was able to participate in a middle-school workshop that is part of an Opera initative: "Voices for Tolerance - A Project for Justice and Harmony." It's a three-year program that includes a number of main-stage, school and community-based performances and events that feature themes of building acceptance, social justice and cooperative action. The specific goals of this program are "to expand awareness of diversity, to foster acceptance and understanding of differences, to encourage collaboration and community, and to increase the love of vocal music and the arts." Classroom teachers work in direct partnership with L.A. Opera teaching artists integrating music and art into the curriculum. I was excited to observe the techniques being used by this mainstream organization to engage the community in social issues through the arts. More on this later....

Voices for Tolerance

   

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