Today's Future Sound (TFS) partnered with Bay Area Community Resources to deliver after school enrichment classes at Hoover Elementary in West Oakland. A generous grant from Oakland Fund For the Arts (OFFTA) enabled TFS to continue its work for the entire school year, extending the program 15 weeks. In this program not only did students learn about music theory, composition, Hip Hop and contemporary history of popular music, TFS also integrates STEM/STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) as students learn about real world applications of fractions, ratios, core math concepts they are learning in school as well as advanced Math and Science concepts such as understanding the physics of how turntables, amplifiers, etc. work and frequency response, audio engineering, etc., involving computer and media literacy skills.
TFS is a grassroots organization based in Oakland, CA that is a fiscal project of Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation. TFS uses music production and media arts as vehicles through which to empower youth as artists and community members while fostering their well-being as individuals. Founded and led by Dr. Elliot Gann, a trained therapist who has been working in OUSD using Hip Hop as a mental health and educational intervention for nearly a decade, TFS has been working at WOMS on a pro bono, volunteer basis since spring of 2012 and is in the midst of finishing up the students' final project---an instrumental album/beat tapewhich will be released publicly and for free download at the end of the schools year.
TFS would also like to acknowledge generous support from PG & E, the Bill Graham Foundation and Pandora Radio which has enabled this and other programs.
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