MISSION: “Music saves lives, I’m singin for my life”
What is a Teaching Artist in the Kim Poole Experience?
A teaching artist is one that recognizes and understands the influential nature of their art and uses it to promote a value system or subject matter as an entity in and of itself or as tool integrated into another discipline. A teaching artist is a way of thinking, being and an approach to engaging others in expression.
Kim Poole, “A Teaching Artist”
As a singer songwriter, I am just as passionate about live performance as I am composing a composition. However, it is the development of composition; melody and lyrics that has inspired me to become a teaching artist. Many songs that I write are just the pages of my diary and personal artistic expression. However, increasingly I use music as a more purposeful tool of empowerment and peacebuilding for a global audience. Throughout my artistic development, I have learned from the lyrics of a musical lineage that serves as the sound track to my life. These artist and their songs are the inspiration behind the teaching artist component of my craft today.
With my art comes a level of responsibility because music is sublime. Through the Kim Poole Experience I realize that music is the most powerful tool for empowerment and peace building because it’s the only force in existence that can teach or heal someone without their knowledge or consent. Music is an education for the soul. Walt Disney said “I would rather entertain and hope you learned something.”
However, I would rather aim to teach and hope you were entertained because “Music saves lives, I’m singin for my life”
-Teaching Artist Workshop Offerings –
- MUSIC AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
- MUSIC AS THERAPY
- MUSIC AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
- MUSIC FOR PEACEBUILDING & CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Do you want music integrated into your lesson plan, professional development team building, or creative communication platform etc., Let’s Do it!
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