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Photographs from El Sistema Colorado’s Performance at Su Teatro

[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-12-2.jpg" alt=""]Song of Joy
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-13-2.jpg" alt=""]Sellin' It
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-14-2.jpg" alt=""]Song of My Heart
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-15-2.jpg" alt=""]Smiles In Performance
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-9-2.jpg" alt=""]Close Attention
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-2-2.jpg" alt=""]It Takes Concentration
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-4-2.jpg" alt=""]Sectional
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-5-2.jpg" alt=""]Eighth Sized!
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-10-2.jpg" alt=""]Appreciation
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-6-2.jpg" alt=""]First Position
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-7-2.jpg" alt=""]Pizzicato
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ES_SuTeatro-1-2.jpg" alt=""]Chillin'
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Photographs by Brigid Mcauliffe and provided courtesy of The Piton Foundation.

Recently, third-grade participants in the El Sistema Colorado program at Garden Place Academy received violins, thanks to a generous donation from Colorado Public Radio. Below are some pictures documenting the first moments after the kids received their instruments. The pictures say it all.

[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6783389644_ac67e4ed92_o.jpg" alt=""]Talking about how those darn cases open
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6929508303_15e8eabdc6_o.jpg" alt=""]Strings of the heart
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6783389524_a3238900d6_o.jpg" alt=""]Commitment pays off
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6783389872_c1ee576df0_o.jpg" alt=""]It's almost as tall as I am!
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6929508011_3b06427f76_o.jpg" alt=""]Love at first sight...
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Photographs by Brigid Mcauliffe and provided courtesy of The Piton Foundation.

Garden Place Creates Paper Violin Orchestra

Last week, over 150 family members of Garden Place Academy helped 72 kindergartens each create a papier-mâché violin!  The paper violin orchestra helps young students learn to hold and bow the instrument before graduating to real violins at the end of February.

[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700864181_31dd6a6c22_o.jpg" alt=""]Student with newly made Papier-mâché violin
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700866561_9b563a6621_o.jpg" alt=""]It takes concentration and a lot of craftsmanship
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700867791_dcd6a43893_o.jpg" alt=""]"Like that?"
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700866743_0489e7dcaf_o.jpg" alt=""]"Hey, Dad's doing all the work!"
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700866317_8b6931cb4e_o.jpg" alt=""]Teamwork is a must
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700867325_073f140fb7_o.jpg" alt=""]Lacquering the violin.
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700864457_105e307c21_o.jpg" alt=""]Sisters
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700868465_86ed391a32_o.jpg" alt=""]Demonstrating how to hold a violin
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6700867219_db9b99dda1_o.jpg" alt=""]Success!
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Photographs by Brigid Mcauliffe and provided courtesy of The Piton Foundation.

 

El Sistema Colorado Launches January 9, 2012

[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Merida-Boy-Reshot.jpg" alt=""]El Sistema - Mérida, Venezuela
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/JAMM-paper-violins.jpg" alt=""]Paper Violin Orchestra - Juneau, Alaska
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/VIOLINS.jpg" alt=""]Preparing for the orchestra at Garden Place
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Dante_happy-band-kids.jpg" alt=""]El Sistema, Venezuela
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Dantes_VZ-drummers.jpg" alt=""]El Sistema, Venezuela
[img src="http://elsistemacolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/VZ-kids-walking.jpg" alt=""]El Sistema, Venezuela
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Beginning January 9, 2012, El Sistema Colorado launches its first site at Garden Place Elementary in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood. We will serving 100 kindergartners and third graders with a team of three teaching artists and our Program Coordinator, Dr. Diana Howard.

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05.22.13: NC News Bits
Philanthropy Journal
Grants to this organization directly supplement an impoverished child's education and health expenses or support programs in which the child participates. KidZNotes celebrated its annual gala, El Sistema Around the World, and was able to raise $82,000 ...


Posted: May 22, 2013, 4:30 pm

EL SISTEMA GREATER BOSTON SHOWCASE to Unite Nine Music Programs, 6/1
Broadway World
... fosters cooperation, self-confidence, and perseverance, transforming youth culture and promoting higher graduation rates. In recent years El Sistema has spread throughout the world, transforming the lives of untold numbers of children and young people.


Posted: May 21, 2013, 2:15 pm

Edmonton Journal
New Edmonton symphony program brings music to inner-city students
Edmonton Journal
The YONA-Sistema (Youth Orchestra of northern Alberta) is inspired by the El Sistema program developed almost 40 years ago in the poorest areas of Venezuela. Its founder, Jose Abreu, saw music as “an agent of social development because it transmits ...

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Posted: May 19, 2013, 6:37 pm

Inspired by Venezuelan kids, Metcalf students make paper violins
Bloomington Pantagraph
Teachers and students created their own El Sistema project, in which the youngest children painted and decorated instruments designed and made by seventh- and eighth-grade technology students. They learned the basics of playing from their fifth- and ...


Posted: May 18, 2013, 4:34 am

In This Garden: MusicalMinds Cultivates Character
WFAE
The children are the first class of MusicalMinds NC, a free, classical music program for “at-risk” children modeled upon the famed El Sistema schools of Venezuela. On stage with the children was Eduardo Cedeño, conductor of the Lake Norman Symphony ...


Posted: May 17, 2013, 9:14 am