We Need Your Help to Revitalize an Important Part of Detroit
History and Resume Provideing Music Education to the Youth
The Art Center Music School insist in expanding opportunities to the youth of Detroit. Reaching out to at risk youth, thru education, and the fine arts provide them with the mindset to achieve a bright future; by providing them with security and exposing them to fine arts, as well as, providing the community with a center, devoted to individual student achievements.
We are currently raising funds to refurbish our auditorium. This will allow us to provide space for our various youth programs and future fundraising efforts.
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Help Save a Vital Part of Detroit History
Our fundraising goal for this campaign is $20,000 to restore and repair the Hall connected to our building. The main building was built in the 1870’s. It was originally a funeral home and it was the home Harry Houdini had his funeral. The Hall connecting to the building was built in the 1920s. The funeral home closed in 1927.
In 1981 the Art Center Music School purchased the building in order to continue to provide affordable quality music lessons to the Detroit community. The Art Center Music School, founded in 1922, is Detroit’s oldest music school. After her passing in the early 1990s Dr. Nellie Ebersole, The head of the Art Center Music School, left the building under the control of the board of a non-profit organization under the same name in order to continue the tradition of providing affordable music lessons to the community.
The school was forced to close during the economic collapse of the city in the late 2000s. Over the next few years as the doors were closed the building was violated and striped. Attempts to rehab the building begun in 2010 and we have managed to do a fair amount of restoring. Work done includes fixing the first floor ceiling, partial roof repairs, first and second floor windows, outside gutters replaced and repaired, plaster on the first floor and some painting. |
The restoration of the entire building will take much more work and resources then we currently have so we have decided to focus our fundraising efforts on restoring the Hall. Once the hall is restored it we be used as a community center for the youth in the area, a space where we can hold various programs for the youth and It will also be used for additional fundraising so we can continue to restore the rest of the building. |
The funds raised in this campaign will be used to fix
portions of the ceiling, pluming and bathrooms, electrical work, replacement
light fixtures, painting and repairing of doors
Here are some Pictures of the Hall in its current condition.
Why Music Education is Importaint to Detroit
by Courtney Vasilije
Winner of 2013 Summer Jamz Essey Contest
I feel that music shows people who they really are. When you hear a song, everything seems to fall into place. It’s a quality that you can’t feel anywhere else. Music gives you the ability to feel like you’re home. Music has power and importance. It brings people together and creates this universal community.
Music can tap into so many different emotions that are sometimes difficult to even express. It can change your mood and take it deeper and make it more profound. Music tends to spark the imagination. It opens the mind to amazing insight. Music is a way of life it moves everyone and without it, life would be pointless.
Music has so much power to influence the heart, mind, and soul in many ways no other outside source can. I believe it cleanses the soul. When music is played, it allows people to become free. The beauty of music is that it’s the only method of passing one’s soul through the body of others. Whether you play a show with a huge or small audience, you’ll always captivate the souls of every person standing right before you.
Those are a few examples to why music is important to others but I have my own
personal reasons. Personally, music lifts my soul and releases it. It helps me to express myself in ways that I can’t normally. It gives me something to look forward to every single day.
Music allows not just me but others to be creative. Without music, life would be silent, unenjoyable, and dull. Music puts the life and excitement into the world. The world is greatly changed by music. People don’t notice that music changes moods, feelings, and even actions. Without the joy of music, there’s no point to life, unless life to you is no sound.
Music can tap into so many different emotions that are sometimes difficult to even express. It can change your mood and take it deeper and make it more profound. Music tends to spark the imagination. It opens the mind to amazing insight. Music is a way of life it moves everyone and without it, life would be pointless.
Music has so much power to influence the heart, mind, and soul in many ways no other outside source can. I believe it cleanses the soul. When music is played, it allows people to become free. The beauty of music is that it’s the only method of passing one’s soul through the body of others. Whether you play a show with a huge or small audience, you’ll always captivate the souls of every person standing right before you.
Those are a few examples to why music is important to others but I have my own
personal reasons. Personally, music lifts my soul and releases it. It helps me to express myself in ways that I can’t normally. It gives me something to look forward to every single day.
Music allows not just me but others to be creative. Without music, life would be silent, unenjoyable, and dull. Music puts the life and excitement into the world. The world is greatly changed by music. People don’t notice that music changes moods, feelings, and even actions. Without the joy of music, there’s no point to life, unless life to you is no sound.
Art Center Music School
3975 Cass Ave.
Detroit Michigan 48201
www.friendsofartcentermusicschool.net
For more information contact 313-799-2518
or E-mail [email protected]
3975 Cass Ave.
Detroit Michigan 48201
www.friendsofartcentermusicschool.net
For more information contact 313-799-2518
or E-mail [email protected]