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Family Day: Spring Fest Welcomes Families to Carnegie Hall on April 19
Photo: Chris Lee
On Saturday, April 19 from 12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., children ages 3–10 and their caregivers are invited to the Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for an afternoon-long free open house, Family Day: Spring Fest. This highly interactive, playful day offers families a multitude of fun activities that celebrate the earth, nature, and all things spring. Highlights of Family Day include instrument building with Bash the Trash; group singing with artists Emily Eagen, Skye Soto Steele, and Diana Schwam; a soothing sound meditation; hands-on opportunities to color and craft; lively mainstage performances with Falu and Swing Makes You Sing!; and more. Family Day is an enriching experience for the whole family, as both children and their grown-ups can explore their own creativity and learn alongside other children and families.
Big Note, Little Note:
An Early Childhood Program for Caregivers with Infants
Big Note, Little Note, a 10-week music class for New York City families, offers a range of experiences for parents and caregivers to engage with their babies through musical play, singing, instrument exploration, songwriting, and more. The program, offered at no cost, is centered around community, and supports family well-being, early childhood development, and parent-child connection. Classes for caregivers and infants are being offered this winter and spring, in partnership with the Children’s Storefront and the Brooklyn Public Library. A playlist with original songs inspired by the themes of the class is available on SoundCloud.
The Lullaby Project Promotes Parental Well-Being Through 60+ Partnerships
The Lullaby Project returns this season, pairing new and expectant parents and caregivers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies, supporting parental health and well-being, aiding child development, and strengthening the bond between parent and child. Lullaby Project partners in New York City, nationally, and across the globe serve more than 1,000 families annually across healthcare, education, and social service, and justice settings. In New York City, the project reaches 200 families this year through partnerships with several city and state agencies, including NYC Health + Hospitals, the NYC Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, and the New York State Division of Veteran’s Affairs. From September to June, Carnegie Hall teaching artists work with families across these community sites to write and sing personal lullabies, offering a creative opportunity to communicate feelings, hopes, and dreams for their child.
Photo: Fadi Kheir
More than 5,000 families have written original songs for their children as part of the Lullaby Project, hundreds of which are available for listening and sharing on Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby SoundCloud page, which currently has nearly 100,000 listens in more than 50 countries. At the end of the songwriting process, each parent receives a recording of their lullaby to listen to and sing with their baby to further support parent-child bonding and early childhood development. Throughout the year, approximately 15 select lullabies from local sites are professionally recorded by musicians and parents. Click hereto watch a special video about the Lullaby Project.
Select lullabies are performed live each year as part of the Lullaby Project’s Celebration Concert. On Saturday, May 31 at 3:00 p.m., audiences are invited to listen to heartwarming original songs created as part of the project performed by parents, musicians, and community partners in Zankel Hall. The concert will also be available for audiences to livestream on Carnegie Hall’s YouTube channel.
Extending across the country and around the globe, the Lullaby Project enables more than 60 partner organizations to support the creation of new lullabies in a variety of models, adapting the program to best meet the needs of their community and families. Click here for a current list of Lullaby Project partners across the US and internationally in Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania. The annual Lullaby Project international convening takes place at Carnegie Hall on May 29–31, providing professional development sessions for new and prospective partners led by expert teaching artists, consultants, and researchers.
To better understand the effect of music in early childhood development, Carnegie Hall has commissioned three research papers from Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, an expert in the field: Why Making Music Matters: Singing, Playing, Moving, and Sharing in the Early Years, Lullaby: Being Together, Being Well, and Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families.
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About Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) creates visionary programs that embody Carnegie Hall’s commitment to music education, playing a central role in fulfilling the Hall’s mission of making great music accessible to as many people as possible. With unparalleled access to the world’s greatest artists, WMI’s programs are designed to inspire audiences of all ages, nurture tomorrow’s musical talent, and harness the power of music to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. An integral part of Carnegie Hall’s concert season, these programs facilitate creative expression, develop musical skills and capacities at all levels, and encourage participants to make lifelong personal connections to music.
Hundreds of thousands of people each year engage in WMI’s programs through national and international partnerships, in New York City schools and community settings, and at Carnegie Hall. This includes more than 208 orchestras, peer arts organizations, and education and community-based organizations in 46 states as well as internationally in 33 countries on 6 continents. WMI’s hands-on programs tap into the creativity of audiences of all ages, inviting them to make their own music in all genres, express their viewpoints, and raise their voices. WMI shares an extensive range of online music education resources and program materials for free with teachers, families, orchestras, arts organizations, and music lovers worldwide. As a leader in music education, WMI generates new knowledge through original research, which informs Carnegie Hall’s own programs and is also available as a resource to artists, organizations, and peers.
For more information, please visit:carnegiehall.org/education
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Lead funding for Early Childhood Programs is provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Major support for Big Note, Little Note is provided by Ardian US Foundation.
Lead support for Lullaby Project is provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York and William Penn Foundation.
Major funding for Lullaby Project is provided by Ameriprise Financial, Ardian US Foundation, and Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
Additional support for Lullaby Project has been provided by JMCMRJ Sorrell Foundation, and Sook Family Foundation.
Public support for Lullaby Project has been provided by the NYC Health+Hospitals Arts in Medicine Department and New York State Senator Liz Krueger, with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Family Days are made possible, in part, by endowment gifts from Linda and Earle S. Altman, The Irene Diamond Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., and the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund.
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute is generously supported by a wide range of corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individual donors. Click here for a complete list of funders.
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