Letter to Arusha: Juilliard students to give arts workshop.

12 Mar, 2009

Hello everyone! My name is Megan Griffin and I am a music student at The Juilliard School in New York City. Together with five fellow artists from Juilliard I will be traveling to Arusha, Tanzania, this May to teach performing arts workshops at Umoja Youth Empowerment Center. Evan, Jordan and Ryan are from the drama division, Patrick is also from the music division and Collin is an alumnus of the dance division. Our team will be teaching arts workshops in music, dance and drama to introduce the students at Umoja to the performing arts and the creative process. Ultimately we hope to guide the students as they create a performance of their own. We will also be performing throughout the area during our stay, so if you