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Juilliard Summer Grants Fund International Arts InitiativesAin’t No Mountain High Enough to Stop Student Arts Ambassadors in Botswana Maru-a-Pula, meaning “promises and blessings” in Setswana, may be the perfect description of a Juilliard student volunteer group’s return trip to Gaborone, Botswana, in June. Promises were made to the kids and the community of Gaborone, and I am very blessed to say that those promises were kept. However, it did take some faith and patience—and a lot of hard work and sacrifice—to get there. More...In Detroit, Reinforcing the Power of the Arts Detroit Arts Immersion, which started in 2009 and is partly funded by a Juilliard Summer Grant, has had a twofold mission: providing arts programming to homeless, abused/neglected, and paroled youth as well as giving free performances throughout the city. This year, we had an additional goal: to make the program self-sustaining. More...Serendipity In Guatemala Asociación Obras Sociales del Santo Hermano Pedro, in Antigua, Guatemala, has a live-in facility for 250 people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy. The nurses there are aided in their mission by international volunteers including a group funded in part by a Juilliard Summer Grant that spent a little more than a week at the facility in May. More... |
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