LEAF in Schools & Streets (LSS) empowers youth through festive arts! LSS is a non-profit collaborative outreach program sending performing artists into local communities for hands-on workshops, residencies, mentoring and performances. The experience provides opportunity for the youth to attend Lake Eden Arts Festival and to perform alongside resident artists on a national stage, with their parents in the audience. Participating youth gain self-esteem and tolerance while experiencing workshops, being a performer, multiple interactions with performing artists, and a festival adventure.
Since its '04 debut, LSS has featured talented and award-winning artists, who have inspired more than 7,100 Buncombe County area young people in 27 schools, 7 after-school programs, The W.C. Reid Community Center, YWCA youth programs, The Swannanoa Youth Development Center and the Blue Brass Project which united youth of Western North Carolina & Tipitinas interns of New Orleans.
LEAF International is a non-profit collaborative outreach program that matches youth globally with instruments and mentors, empowers youth through music, arts, and by connecting to their cultural traditions.
MAIN CONTACT INFORMATIONLeaf Eden Arts Festival (LEAF)
377 Lake Eden Rd.
Black Mountain, NC 28711
Phone: 828/68-MUSIC (686-8742)
Fax: 828/686-0035
Email: info@theleaf.com
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