<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-txtNew" id="gmail-comp-kevj9eub" style="margin-top:5px;margin-right:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;width:565px"><h1 class="gmail-font_0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/stories-of-struggle-and-success">https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/stories-of-struggle-and-success</a></font></span></h1><h1 class="gmail-font_0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="2" color="#000000">Stories of Struggle and Success</font></span></h1><h5 class="gmail-font_5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays</font></h5><h5 class="gmail-font_5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">September 29 - October 22, 2020</font></h5><h5 class="gmail-font_5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">3:30p - 5:00p</font></h5><h5 class="gmail-font_5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">FREE ENROLLMENT</font></h5><h6 class="gmail-font_6" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Open to 13 - 18 year olds living in or attending school in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood</font></h6><h6 class="gmail-font_6" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></h6><h6 class="gmail-font_6" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Cleveland Opera Theater is partnering with Refresh Collective, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts and youth development organization, to expand their existing after-school program, “Stories of Struggle and Success,” into a 4-week VIRTUAL intensive. Students will engage in an overview of music history from the time opera originated in the 1600s to the present day with an emphasis on storytelling through music, highlighting the similarities between opera and hip-hop.</font></h6></div><div class="gmail-txtNew" id="gmail-comp-kevjakw3" style="margin-top:31px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:33px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;width:529px;min-height:453px"><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">In the sessions co-taught by Cleveland Opera Theater and Refresh Collective, students will</font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">              1) learn how storytelling through music has evolved                        over the past 400 years,</font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">              2) learn how hip-hop artists use technology and                                sampling in their work, and</font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">              3) will create their own beats and lyrics to record in a                        video at the end of the program.</font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The program is scheduled September 29 – October 22, 2020 to allow students to submit their finished recordings to <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-weight:bold">iN Education’s Battle of the Teal</span>, “an annual, action-packed art program that showcases the hard work and dedication of visual and performing artists. As an outcome of our year-round promotion of the arts, this program builds a platform for young, emerging artists who wish to develop in the arts of their selected form, boost their confidence levels, and experience what it’s like to present their masterpieces and/or themselves in front of a live audience!”</font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-font_8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/stories-of-struggle-and-success">https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/stories-of-struggle-and-success</a><br></font></span></p></div><div title="" class="gmail-wp2" id="gmail-comp-kexizorq" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;width:348px;height:348px"><div id="gmail-comp-kexizorqlink" class="gmail-wp2link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;overflow:hidden;width:348px;height:348px"><span id="gmail-comp-kexizorqimg" class="gmail-wp2img" style="display:block;overflow:hidden;width:348px;height:348px"><a href="mailto:mthompson@clevelandoperatheater.org?subject=Question%20about%20%22Stories%20of%20Struggle%20and%20Success%22" target="_self" id="gmail-comp-kevjt9wrlink" class="gmail-style-kevjw4dclink" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px solid rgb(255,255,255);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:url("https://static.parastorage.com/services/skins/2.1229.80/images/wysiwyg/core/themes/base/shiny1button_bg.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255,180,0);text-decoration-line:none;border-radius:5px;text-align:initial;display:inline!important"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:-webkit-bas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lpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="vertical-align:-webkit-baseline-middle"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom"><span width="11" color="#b80606" style="display:block;background-color:rgb(184,6,6)"><img width="13" src="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/53/tools/email-signature-generator/icons/address-icon-2x.png" color="#b80606" style="display:block"></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0px"><span color="#000000" style="">5000 Euclid Ave. #1001, Cleveland, OH 44103</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="vertical-align:-webkit-baseline-middle"><tbody><tr><td height="30"></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></span></div></div></div>