<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-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:center"><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:initial">Stories of Struggle and Success</span></div><font size="2" style="" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">FREE ENROLLMENT for teens 13 - 18 years old</span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays</span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">September 29 - October 22, 2020</span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">3:30p - 5:00p</span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left">Register: <a href="https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/registration">https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/registration</a><span style="background-color:initial"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial"></span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">Priority registration given to students living in or attending school in the Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood, but all teens are welcome!</span></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">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.</span><br></div></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">In the sessions co-taught by Cleveland Opera Theater and Refresh Collective, students will</span></div></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial;font-weight:normal">1) learn how storytelling through music has evolved over the past 400 years,</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial;font-weight:normal">2) learn how hip-hop artists use technology and sampling in their work, and</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial;font-weight:normal">3) will create their own beats and lyrics to record in a video at the end of the program.</span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal">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">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!”<br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/registration">https://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/registration</a><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal">Contact Megan Thompson, Director of Education and Outreach, with questions: <a href="mailto:mthompson@clevelandoperatheater.org">mthompson@clevelandoperatheater.org</a></span></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:initial">The program is scheduled September 29 – October 22, 2020 to allow students to submit their finished recordings to iN Education’s Battle of the Teal, “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!”</span></div></span></font></h1></div></div>