LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Lima Symphony Orchestra is getting a financial boost of support.
The grant will support the new upcoming educational initiative, "Found Sound Around the World," which is a youth-based program.
The National Endowment for the Arts has approved the Lima Symphony Orchestra for a Challenge America Grant for $10,000.
The grant is offered once a year and will support the new upcoming educational initiative, "Found Sound Around the World," which is a youth-based program. It's a 6-week drumming program and will be led by Doctor Sarah Waters, a percussionist in the symphony who is also a professor at Ohio Northern University and the director of ONU's summer music camp.
Lima Symphony executive director Elizabeth Brown-Ellis talked about the excitement surrounding the new program thanks to the grant.
For more details, you can visit the Lima Symphony Orchestra's website at https://www.limasymphony.com/.
"We're going to be exploring not only drums, but also cultures of Africa, of China, of Native America, and of Cuba. And so it's a really great opportunity for kids to learn more about the world, to kind of feel like they are a world citizens, and to kind of close those boundaries a little bit. It's also a found sound grant, and so we are going to be making instruments from things you can find in nature or in your kitchen and performing them in the style of the Chinese percussion style or Cuban steel pans. That kind of thing," explained Elizabeth Brown-Ellis, executive director of the Lima Symphony Orchestra.
The Found Sound Around the World program is expected to start this summer. For more details, you can visit their website at https://www.limasymphony.com/.
