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In 2011, the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts launched Austin Soundwaves in collaboration with the University of Texas College Of Fine Arts. The Austin Soundwaves currently offers free, intensive musical education to low-income youth from Travis and Hays Counties that attend East Austin College Prep (EAPrep), a charter school located in the heart of East Austin. Austin Soundwaves is designed to support these students with a quality musical education that widens pathways to college and develops cultural participation for participants. Instruction is inspired by the world-renowned, pedagogic model [...]
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You’re Invited! Austin Soundwaves Finale
You’re invited to join us as Austin Soundwaves students from our East Austin College Prep locations showcase the culmination of their efforts and work at the Austin Soundwaves Finale Concert. The concert will be at Bates Recital Hall at the University of Texas on Thursday, May 23rd at 7:30PM. Students from 4th to 9th -
From Specials to Normals: Re-claiming the Arts as Part of the Expected Curriculum
The Second in our series From the Podium, Austin Soundwaves Program Director, Patrick Slevin explores the perception of the arts in public education. The use of the term Specials to describe arts and PE classes in public education has become a problem as curricula nationwide have become increasingly narrowed and the arts severely marginalized. It would not
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