Price Hill Will/MyCincinnai
3301 Price Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45205
MYCincinnati Summer Camp and Price Hill Creative Community Festival
Grant Application:
MYCincinnati will host its 11th annual summer camp in Price Hill, during which over 100 students between the ages of 7-18 will collaborate in small groups to create new student-driven creative projects.
The camp will culminate in the 7th annual Price Hill Creative Community Festival (PHCCF), where the students will present their projects. The festival is a free neighborhood event that uses collaborative arts as a tool to build a more creative, equitable, and connected community. The festival brings together MYCincinnati students with world-class professional artists, providing an opportunity for them to strive towards their full potential while building a more creative and connected community.
Goals/Objective:
MYCincinnati will host its 11th annual summer camp in Price Hill, during which over 100 students between the ages of 7-18 will collaborate in small groups to create new student-driven creative projects.
The camp will culminate in the 7th annual Price Hill Creative Community Festival (PHCCF), where the students will present their projects. The festival is a free neighborhood event that uses collaborative arts as a tool to build a more creative, equitable, and connected community. The festival brings together MYCincinnati students with world-class professional artists, providing an opportunity for them to strive toward their full potential while building a more creative and connected community.
Grant Evaluation Report:
The MYCincinnati Summer Camp and Price Hill Creative Community Festival project were successful. We enrolled less children than we anticipated but the students that did enroll were some of our best. We were able to provide higher quality educational experience in a smaller group setting with more one-on-one instruction. Students were immersed in music receiving five hours of instruction five days a week for four weeks. Then they performed original works for their family, friends, and neighbors at the Price Hill Creative Community Festival.
Price Hill is one of Cincinnati’s most diverse neighborhoods, and the festival used collaborative arts as a tool to build a more creative, equitable, and connected community. The festival employed over professional artists, MYCincinnati Teaching Artists, and 2 sound engineers. Programming ranged from African dance to spoken-word, hip-hop to electronic soundscapes, but the focus was on the MYCincinnati youth artists performing original pieces featuring strings, winds, brass, and percussion. The festival appealed to all ages with family-friendly activities, and the audience reflected the diversity of MYCincinnati, which is about 60% LatinX, 25% Black, and 10% White, and 5% mixed race.
The festival featured performances from the MYCincinnati Youth orchestra, the Matt McAllister Trio, Roberto Parket, Annie Barr McAllister & John Massey, Pete Fosco, 5kBrass, AIR Project, Gabriel Martinez Rubio & Dos Corazones, Shu-Li Cheah, Hope Nowak Art, Annie Gordon & Wayside Winds, Rapunzel!, Rockne Riddlebarger, Brianna Kelly, Bernardo Lopez, Fritz Pape, Ijo Ugo, and Jett Walker Brass Quintet. There was also a kid zone, food trucks, art gallery, and more!
Results:
Thanks to your support MYCincinnati hosted its 11th annual Summer Camp and 7th annual Price Hill Creative Community Festival in July 2023. 55 students attended the free summer camp and spent hundreds of hours learning from professional artists in small ensembles to create student-driven projects to debut at the Price Hill Creative Community Festival. On July 22nd & 23rd, the 7th annual Price Hill Creative Community Festival’s helped to connect and grow our community by bringing hundreds of people together to safely celebrate our neighborhood’s diversity and creativity.
Website:
http://www.mycincinnatiorchestra.org Amount: $25,000
Date: April 2022
