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A leader in learning through the time of COVID-19, OrchKids provided Baltimore City School students across nine schools with opportunities for musical and personal growth.

Academic year programming was entirely virtual and included live online instruction; an online resource library( practice materials, tutorials, etc.); asynchronous material and classes delivered to BCPSS teachers and school partners; and, online ensembles, collective composition workshops, and guest artist engagements.

A four-week, hybrid Summer Session engaged 100 students in small group and private instrumental lessons, music theory, and other enrichment classes. In total, OrchKids served 211 students during after-school programming and made in-school programming accessible to 1,100 students.

Thanks to the power of partnerships, OrchKids was also able to serve the whole student and their families:

• Under the supervision of licensed social workers, interns from the University of Maryland School of Social Work led individual projects such as a video to celebrate immigrant families; and created neighborhood Resource Guides, providing guidance on food and clothing insecurity to an eviction prevention program.

• A partnership with Johns Hopkins University saw students commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as explore female empowerment today. OrchKids students created an original composition centered around three distinct themes of the suffrage movement( representation, voting, and the future of democracy) while University film students gathered complementary imagery. The collective result, Queens Unseen: Royals without Crowns, was a special audio / visual presentation broadcast in collaboration with The Parkway.

• A renewed collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County( UMBC), gathered students from both programs virtually over eight weekly sessions to compose original music and lyrics centered around the theme of“ Looking Ahead” – designed to reshape the negative impacts of 2020 with positivity and hope for a better 2021.

While operating as a program of the BSO, OrchKids has a restricted operating budget and all gifts intended for OrchKids must be designated as such. For more information, please visit OrchKids. org.

OrchKids student Jayden Moore at Interlochen Center for the Arts

35 OrchKids

attended external summer camps:

- Camp Encore / Coda

- The Archipelago Project’ s Innovation and Leadership Academy

- Kingdom Flute Works- Allegro Strings- Yola National

- The NSO Summer Music Institute

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