To Sir with Love
I’m so excited to start our reading group! We will meet Tuesday’s 4-5PM at the studio, and have our first meeting October 6. We will start with To Sir with Love by E. R. Braithwaite. It is also a great movie, which would be wonderful to watch but only after we finish reading it. Please […]
Reading and Thinking through Classic and Contemporary Literature
Mortimer Alder wrote, “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” This quote explains one of the many reasons that an arts academy like The Tuned In Academy would host a book club and reading class. Because who we are as artists and […]
Music Education for Wounded Warriors
Do you know any wounded warriors? Research has proven music to be very effective for lifting the spirits and even relieving phantom pain. We will be starting a new FREE music education program very soon for combat veterans suffering from PTSD and other combat related wounds and illnesses. We already have at least one hour […]
Why do we do something like Arts Walk?
It’s Colorful, Eclectic, and Real Arts Walk is crazy. It really is. I mean the whole downtown area of our city turns into this sort of crazy, colorful, chaotic display of art and music. And I think it is beautiful. It is an honest display of at least a decent sampling of Olympia’s artists and […]
Exciting News: Non-Profit Status Coming Soon
Friends: We made it to 270 “likes” on our Facebook page. Thank you so much. Numbers really don’t matter that much to us, but they do help with visibility. You matter to us. We do not put much into advertising because we never want to have to raise tuition rates to cover ad expenses. So […]
Winter Presentation 2014
Yesterday was our first annual winter presentation. We did not get a chance to tell the story of all of our students that presented. We wanted to let their smiles and the music speak for itself for presentation. But I wanted to briefly paint a broader picture of just some of what we have been […]
In The Olympian
Did you see the story The Olympian did on the academy? We are so thankful for Rolf Boone and The Olympian for sharing our story. It’s not about us, it’s about community.
Zimbabwe: A Brief Story of Music and Community
Music develops more than just minds, creativity, discipline, and art. Music builds and develops community. In the twentieth century, music among the indigenous peoples of Zimbabwe was simple. People made music informally, simply for enjoyment. British colonizers introduced music presented as live art near the end of the nineteenth century. But musicians from North America […]