10.03.2011– ATLANTA, GA – The ‘Music for Social Change’ 501(c)3 organization, Atlanta Music Project (AMP), is not only changing the lives of Atlanta youth one music instrument at a time, but also injecting social change into one neighborhood at a time. On Monday, October 3, 2011, at 4:30 P.M., the Atlanta-based classical-music-inspired afterschool program will launch its second program site for sixty underserved youth at the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation’s Coan Park Recreation Center located 1530 Woodbine Avenue, SE Atlanta, Georgia 30317.  http://pitch.pe/177743

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The book signing for WENCH: A Novel by scholar-turned-novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez, opened to large crowds.  Mentioned in Paste Magazine.

Beginning with the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War and leading up to the Anniversary of the “Battle of Atlanta”, events will inspire better understanding of the war’s impact on the City of Atlanta. Film screenings, performance exhibits, author talks, and storytelling expected.

Summer 2011 marks the beginning of a four-year-long American Civil War Program Series at The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum, located in Historic Grant Park at 800 Cherokee Avenue SE Atlanta, GA 30315. The series opener, The American Civil War: One-Hundred-Fifty Years Later, launches in conjunction with the sesquicentennial anniversary of The American Civil War and will continue until the year 2014, acknowledging the Anniversary of the “Battle of Atlanta”.  Activities will challenge Atlantans in dialogues on race, politics, slavery, business and culture. Most activities are free and open to the public.

“The 150^th Anniversary of The American Civil war allows us to expand our knowledge of of the past and how the civil war shaped Atlanta today,” says Camille R. Love Director of The City of Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

The Atlanta Ballet’s IGNITION (May 13-15)

Keeping with Atlanta Ballet’s tradition of premiering edgy new works, artistic director John McFall has hand-picked an extraordinary crew of young, up-and-coming choreographers to bring a new dance voice to Atlanta in the company’s season finale of Ignition: New Choreographic Voices, May 13 through 15.

Ignition will feature three world premiere works created exclusively for Atlanta Ballet, to be showcased in the intimate confines of the Alliance Stage promising a variety of movement, music and diverse themes.

One work features choreographer, Amy Seiwert, Broadway vet and HBO Def Poetry Jam spoken-word artist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and violinist, Daniel Bernard.

TUESDAY MAY 3, 2011
7:00PM

W Atlanta Midtown
Top Floor
188 14th Street NE
27th Floor
Atlanta, GA 30361

AMP is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 organization with the mission of transforming the lives of Atlanta’s underprivileged children. Piloted at the Gilbert House, a cultural center located in Southwest Atlanta and operated by the City Of Atlanta Office Of Cultural Affairs, it offers an intense 5-day-a-week program of classical, orchestral training, a safe haven for at-risk youth, musical instruments for each child, field trips to various Atlanta cultural institutions, and instills confidence, creativity and ambition through practice and live concert performances. 

Co-founded by Canadian-born bassoonist and AMP Executive Director, Dantes Rameau, his inaugural membership in the Abreu Fellows Program at the New England Conservatory of Music is where he studied El Sistema, the acclaimed Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra System that transforms the lives of children through music. Since El Sistema’s founding, over one-million kids have gone through the program. Despite 70% of the participants living below the poverty line, the program has spawned visionary global movement. Rameau envisions the same outcome for Metropolitan Atlanta’s underprivileged youth.

AMP believes raising fundsand awareness will aid in swiftly building the movement in the Atlanta metro area. Immediate plans include increasing enrollment from 24 to 40 students, opening a second site in another underserved neighborhood, and lastly, encouraging music instrument donations and child sponsorships from music and youth advocates.

For more than 50 years, Coxe Curry & Associates (CC&A) has proudly served some of Georgia’s top organizations in the nonprofit sector. CC&A has been retained to lead The Atlanta Music Project’s fundraising efforts.