Free Family Fun! January 22, Music Adventures Open House

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Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

Music Adventures Open House

Sample Classes! Sing-a-long! Surprises!

January 22, 3 – 5pm

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Brooklyn Conservatory of Music presents a free, fun-filled family event Saturday, January 22, 3- 5pm. This open house event, aimed at children 18 months – 9 years old will take place in the beautiful Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall located at 58 7th avenue in the heart of the Park Slope. Attendees will be able to learn about and experience the wonderful early childhood program at the Brooklyn Conservatory, meet with our experienced and highly qualified faculty members and most importantly have a great time! This free event will also be an opportunity to learn more about our two exciting new classes Music Makes Me Move and Advanced Adventures!

Sample classes! Face Painting! Arts & Crafts! Balloon Making! Special Gifts! Surprises!

Schedule of events is as follows:

3:00 pm: Sample class (20 minutes) and parent information session (10 minutes)

3:30 pm: Sing-a-long with special guests, performers & surprises!

4:00 pm: Sample class (20 minutes) and parent information session (10 minutes)

4:30pm: Children’s Entertainment

The What and Why of Music Adventures!

Children are natural explorers and our classes both nurture and encourage their fascination with the world, as they grow, our program grows with them allowing the amazing adventure to continue!

The Music Adventures Program is based on a sequentially themed and developmentally nurturing structure. Children learn best through imitation and sensory experiences. Our program encourages creative expression through music and dance and the related arts.

A former president of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association said that the Brooklyn Conservatory Music Adventures program “reflected a serious commitment to music education for the young child as an exciting and challenging experience… (it) was one of the best programs I had seen in the U.S.”[b]

Each class is balanced with games and exercises to foster expressive movement and is geared to engage children in active music making on xylophones and other pitched and non-pitched percussive instruments. Classes range in theme and focus and start at ages 18 months and go all the way to 9 years old.

The classes (all classes run once a week) consist of:

Parent/Child class (45 min, 18mths – 3 yrs)

Early Childhood Class (60 mins, 3yrs-6yrs)

Advanced Adventures/BCM Children’s Chorus (60 min, 6yrs-9yrs)

Music Makes Me Move! (60 mins, various ages)

Studies show that exposure to music at a young age plays an important role in developing a life-long appreciation of the arts, as well as improving academic and social development. It is also a fun, interactive way to introduce a classroom structure to your child.

Beyond the strong foundation in musical and movement training, Music Adventures promotes higher self-esteem and self-confidence, helps children gain awareness of their voices and bodies, and promotes good social behavior, interaction, and teamwork in a positive environment.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory serves more than 7,000 people each year, of all ages and backgrounds, through free and subsidized music instruction; education and music therapy programs in over 50 schools and community-based organizations; and free and inexpensive concerts. For a brochure about programs and lessons or to make a donation, please call 718-622-3300 or visit the Conservatory’s website at www.bqcm.org.

Programs at the Conservatory are supported by The Achelis Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Barclays/Nets Community Alliance, The Beatrice S. Wind Charitable Remainder Trust, Bloomberg, Brooklyn Community Foundation, ConEdison, Fund for the City of New York/Open Society Foundations’ Performing Arts Recovery Initiative, Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Guild for Community Arts Education/MetLife Foundation, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Park Slope Civic Council, and The Rudin Foundation, as well as numerous individual donors.

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