Performance:
March 12, 2020 - 1:00-2:00pm

5HE is embarking on an arts-integrated residency at Cara Chicago. Curriculum and activities will be co- created with staff and instructors, using music learning and composition exercises to foster self-expression, self-confidence, team building, communication skills, and job readiness. The need this project addresses is for at-risk populations such as those served by Cara Chicago to experience accomplishment, develop practical job readiness skills, and find opportunities for self-expression to communicate and process experiences with trauma, beyond traditional therapeutic environments.

Project activities will be focused on 5HE’s new Deep Listening curriculum. Resulting in abstract musical compositions developed collectively through improvised, text, and graphic scores, Deep Listening uses listening, sonic meditation, and group improvisation exercises to foster mindfulness, agency, empowerment, collective decision-making, and creativity. The program will be developed with Deep Listening trainer Leila Ramagopal Pertl, music education faculty at Lawrence University.

Learn more about Cara Chicago at https://carachicago.org/.