Arts for Youth
Summer Multicultural Arts Camp for Children and Youth – Weekly camps during June and July for children and youth featuring music, dance, crafts, games, sports and foods from around the world as well as daily Spanish language classes Roots, Rhythm and Rhyme – Ongoing classes and workshops in percussion, poetry and percussive dance for individuals, [...]
Supporting Global Artists
The Global Education Center is Nashville’s premier multi-cultural arts center, providing a home for artists from a wide variety of cultures to study, teach and perform their unique traditional art forms. Artists are provided teaching and rehearsal space, regular teaching and performance opportunities, assistance with marketing and the creation of promotional and educational materials, and [...]
A Window To The World
Opening our hearts to the valuable artistic traditions of the world is a cornerstone of all Global Education Center programming. Bolokada Conde is just one of many international artists who have visited the Center over the years. In the summer of 2011, he spent a week’s residency with students enrolled in our Summer Multicultural Arts [...]
The Arts – A Bridge To Understanding
Over generations throughout the world’s many cultures, the arts have endured as vital, vibrant and dynamic necessities in the human desire to express innate creativity and passion for life and its many traditions and circumstances. The participatory nature of the arts encourages interaction with diverse media as well as interaction with the various cultural and spiritual elements indigenous to artistic expression. The arts stimulate us to appreciate the inherent beauty within ourselves and within the world at large, promoting global awareness and a respect for all of humanity. The arts have great unifying power as we explore the issues and emotions expressed throughout the ages by all cultures, including those that have no word for art – where art cannot be separated from daily life – where it is a constant expression of a culture’s worldview – where it is a reflection of human necessity. Read More
