Arts and Healing Initiative / Partnership with Hope Creates

St. Louis Classical Guitar education programs in public schools have begun in full swing this fall, along with a new opportunity and partnership. The Arts and Education Council has awarded 12 organizations in St. Louis $120,000 funding through their Arts and Healing Initiative, including SLCG. Guitar Horizons has provided guitar programming in the Clayton Juvenile Detention Center the past four years instructing guitar to incarcerated teens. We are excited to announce a new partnership with Hope Creates, using music and arts as healing by directly working with young adults recently released from the detention center who have a history of addiction. This program will begin with a guitar building course, then students will learn to perform on the instrument they have created.

Read more about the arts in healing grant from Arts and Education Council on St. Louis Public Radio: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2021-10-10/arts-education-council-grants-120-000-to-help-heal-trauma-through-the-arts

Learn about the creative programming brought by Hope Creates to the addiction and sobriety community in St. Louis on their website: https://www.hopecreates.org