
American
Swedish Institute provides educational programs and resources
to promote Swedish culture and traditions.
Children's
Music Network, a nonprofit association concerned with
the quality and content of children's music, offers an extensive
listing of songs for children on the Peace Resources page
of its Web site.
CitySongs
is an urban youth choir and community development project
that promotes achievement among children through training
in singing, harmony, performance, movement, songwriting and
arranging.
Community
Celebration of Place works with schools, community groups,
cultural organizations and individuals to create celebrations
that reflect the music, art and wisdom of the local community.
Digital
Circle of Indigenous Artisans is an online network of
Aboriginal artists, performers, dancers, musicians and crafters
from the Georgian Bay Area of Canada.
Folk-Legacy
Recordings, Inc. offers an extensive catalog of folk
music recordings.
Friends
School of Minnesota, drawing on the Quaker commitment
to nonviolence, provides a conflict resolution program to
help children learn alternatives to violence.
Highlander
Folk School has since 1932 provided tools for building
organizations capable of leading movements and remains committed
to popular education, collective leadership and participatory
democracy.
Hudson
River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., is a 106-foot wooden sailing
sloop that serves as a moveable classroom, laboratory, stage
and forum for environmental education, advocacy programs
and celebrations.
Louis
Armstrong House & Archives promotes the cultural
legacy of Louis Armstrong by serving as a resource for researchers,
presenting concerts and educational programs about his life
and maintaining his home as a museum.
Music
Mobile is a community arts organization that promotes
children's music and provides concerts and workshops for
all ages, as well as developing and publishing educational
resource materials.
The
PACERS Cooperative is engaged in a comprehensive program
with rural schools called Better Schools Building Better
Communities that incorporates the celebration of community
through the arts.
Rounder
Records Corp. offers an extensive catalog of children's
recordings.
Sing
Out! is a non-profit educational organization that preserves
and supports the cultural diversity and heritage of all folk
musics, publishes a quarterly journal and maintains a collection
of folk music recordings, photos, books and periodicals.
Smithsonian
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage promotes the
understanding and continuity of grassroots cultures by producing
the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia and educational
materials.
The
Spirituals Project is a broad-based initiative to explore
African American spirituals as art form, tradition and tool.
Twin
Cities Community Gospel Choir is a diverse grassroots
musical resource that performs soulful interpretations of
African American gospel music and creates community across
racial, cultural and economic boundaries.
Woody
Guthrie Foundation houses the largest collection of Woody
Guthrie material in the world and offers a multidisciplinary
curriculum based on the words, art and life of Woody Guthrie. |