Here are some photos from Studio Hope activities in 2005.  Also check out the PAC page.

In October, Studio Hope participated in the annual Very Special Arts Festival at the Akron Rotary Club Camp.  Special needs children and adults from programs throughout Summit County attend this two day program.  We helped participants make small rhythm shakers and provided recorded rhythm tracks to play and sing along with.

Egg-cellent Rhythm
Students make rhythm eggs...

 Getting Ready To Play
Rhythm eggs in hand, Studio Hope fires up some rhythm grooves...

Finding The Groove
The music plays and David Palomo leads some very special students in some very special rhythms...

And Singing Too
We added some very special vocal rhythms to the mix...

Putting A Mic To The Rhythm
One mic for vocal rhythms and one mic for someone's very special rhythm egg...

December 2005

During the fall semester, we continued to work with the students at the FACTT program at Child Guidance and Family Solutions.  We also worked with Destiny Youth Academy, an after-school arts program for kids in Akron that teaches youth empowerment through the arts.  In December, the Destiny Youth came up to Hudson to finish the Christmas CD we had been working on all semester.   Here are some photos....

Youth of Destiny
The students from the Tuesday DYA group still standing at the end of our marathon final session...

A One-take Wonder
Marcellous is pleased with himself for getting it one take...

And The Angels Sing
Natahja giving everything she's got to the track...

Tyla Making Tracks
Tyla adds her voice to the mix...

Tyla Likes It!

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