About this Event
From the honking of car horns to the chattering of squirrels and the clanging of the trolley tracks, Philadelphia is a noisy city! Join Teaching Artists Olivia and Anjoli and learn how to harness your creativity to discover the music in your everyday life.
You don’t have to be a professional musician to appreciate the music that surrounds you! Play and learn with Olivia and Anjoli, multi-talented creatives and educators, as they guide you and your family through a new way of listening. In this two-hour, hands-on workshop, we will use the principles of rhythm from music and poetry to help you and your family discover how you can hear music everywhere around you – in nature, the city, and even in the way you speak. We will start with the basics of rhythm, counting syllables and encouraging students to hear rhythm in their own speech patterns. Then, we will read some poems and investigate the rhythmic patterns in poetry, and ask ourselves: what can music teach us about poetry, and vice versa? Finally, we will create our own poems, inspired by the world around us and using our words and bodies to create musical poetry that celebrates the rhythm of our world.
About the Teachers, Anjoli Santiago and Olivia Broderick
Leading with compassion, Anjoli Santiago curiously explores all possibilities, rises through failure, and fearlessly advocates for joyful living and access to arts and education. Every human should be granted the gift to share their story and, in doing so, find belonging. The skills developed through the arts and education allow these opportunities to harvest, fostering local and global communities.”
Olivia Broderick (she/her) is a performer, writer, and educator dedicated to empowering students of all ages to expand their creative horizons. She holds a Bachelors of Music from Temple University, a certificate in Teaching English as a Second/Other Language from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Masters of Arts in English Rhetoric and Composition from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied writing pedagogy with a focus on developing writerly voice and designing equitable writing instruction for nonnative English speakers. She has served as a teaching artist in the creative arts with Multicultural Academy Charter School and Arts at Covenant, and has served as an educational outreach performer with Opera Theatre of Montclair and Wilmington Concert Opera.”
This event is a part of the Creative Music Lessons Program for kids and families, facilitated by Creaive Becoming. .
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2321 Emerald St, 2321 Emerald Street, Philadelphia, United States
USD 10.00