VH1's Save the Music
A portion of the proceeds from the 2010 Unicity Festival will be donated to VH1's Save the Music Foundation.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation was founded in 1997 as a public affairs initiative of the VH1 network. The Foundation’s core mission is to restore instrumental music education programs, ensuring that every child has access to a complete education that includes the benefits of music instruction. Since its inception, The Foundation has remained faithful to and focused on making our mission come to life. Now a 501(c) (3) not for profit organization, The Foundation continues working in close affiliation with its parent network. Tom Calderone, Executive Vice President and General Manager of VH1 serves as the current chairman of The Foundation’s Board of Directors.
As they examined the music education system throughout the nation, they found that music education is not only important for its intrinsic value, but research consistently demonstrated that students who study an instrument enhance their critical thinking skills and their ability to work together as a team. They are more engaged in school and less likely to drop out; and they do significantly better in all of their academic endeavors. Upon seeing the facts about the benefits of music education in a young person’s life, VH1 started The Foundation. Since that visionary moment, the VH1 Save The Music Foundation has proudly restored over 1,600 instrumental music programs in more than 100 cities nationwide, putting instruments into the hands of 1.2 million children. The Foundation is able to make grants of music education programs because of the generous support from its corporate sponsors, foundations, individuals and partners.
Discover Diversity Educational Scholarship Program
Summary
The Discover Diversity Educational Program was created to bring arts
education and an experience to children that otherwise may never
be exposed to such curriculum and performance opportunities. The
performing arts are as diverse as the artists themselves. The program
will open up minds and expose children to different races and cultures
through the artistic content and through fellow performers. The program
encourages individuality while simultaneously teaching students to
work together as part of a group.
The program will cover one or more of the following areas:
- Musical Theatre
- Acting
- Singing
- School of Rock
- Dance
The classes will be lead by teachers from The Premier Centre for
the Arts and Realize Records Artists. The students will perform on
the Family Stage at the 2010 Unicity Performing Arts Festival. Chosen
participants will receive inclusion on the press release.
More details about the classes including dates and times will be
available shortly.
Rock the Recycle Program
Summary
The Rock the Recycle Program will bring the Unicity Performing Arts Festival
into the “green” movement. The goal of the program is to have all
of the items such as plates, forks, cups etc... That are used at the festival
be recyclable items. Here are a few of the other elements of the program.
- A Rock the Recycle booth that will have literature on how going green can
save your household money and energy.
- The booth provides information on easy changes everyone can make in their
daily lives to help the planet.
- Recycle bins in the park so that attendees can place their waste in the
recycle bins at the festival.
- The Rock the Recycle Mascot contest. Details to be announced shortly.
Angel Pass
Concept behind Unicity
The idea behind the Unicity Festival is to bring people together through the
diversity of performing artists. So often you hear that you can only see
certain types of artists in large cities throughout the country. At last
years festival we were met with contention and told that people did not want
diversity in their towns. Out of that contention the Angel Pass was born.
We asked people across the world if they believed in our concept and thought
it was a positive goal to attempt to reach. If they believed that it was, we
asked that they purchase an angel pass ticket to the event to support it even
if they were unable to attend. Those angel passes were then donated to local
charities and given to people who were not able to afford a ticket, the opportunity
to attend the event.
Due to the large response, we will be offering Angel Passes again this year.
They will be available for purchase when tickets go on sale. Tickets must be
purchased at least 10 days in advance to allow us time to distribute.
If you or your organization would like to be recipients of an angel pass please
contact us at community@unicityfestival.com
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