Providing access to high-quality community arts programs since 2000.
Register for Midwest Youth Choir
Upcoming Events
Our Mission
Exposure, experience, and exploration available through the literary, visual and musical arts are essential to the potential of every child.
Books
Literary Arts. To encourage reading in our everyday lives and to develop appreciation and reverence for books and the written word.
Our Programs: Book Brigade and Poetry Pantry
Brushes
Visual Arts. To inspire self-expression by teaching the fundamentals of artistic composition which cultivates personal mark making resulting in the recording and preserving of human history.
Our programs: Arts Inside Out
Bands
Musical Arts. To engage in the formal study of the universal language, music, which connects all people, nurtures creativity and develops innovative thinkers.
Our Programs: Midwest Youth Choir, Band and Orchestra
You can help
Provide and coordinate the gift of community arts education to students and families.
Spotlight Society
Offer a recurring gift to ensure that community arts programs are within reach of the students across Northwest Indiana and Northeast Illinois.
Join our email list
Receive notice of upcoming events, student performances, newsletters, and volunteer opportunities.
Community Music Classes
-
Midwest Youth Choir
MYC invites students ages 5-18 to learn a music repertoire that includes a variety of languages and styles throughout history from countries around the world.
-
Midwest Youth Band
Students in ages 11-18 are welcome to participate in the MYB with no experience necessary to learn a traditional band instrument. Local college students are welcome.
-
Midwest Youth Orchestra
MYO invites students in ages 11-18 to participate. Cello and violin are available for rent through BBB4E, but students may bring their own instruments.
Support BBB4E
Since 2000, Books, Brushes & Bands for Education has attracted thousands of public, private, parochial, and home school students from ages 5 to 18 to experience excellent instruction and performance opportunities. BBB4E has done well to partner with a variety of resources from corporate sponsors to higher educational institutions. We pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to connect the family as a whole.
Why participate?
Let’s look at what the research says…
Source: Dr. Shirley Brice Health, Stanford University, for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
That young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days of each week for one full year or more are:
4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
3 times more likely to be elected to class office
4 times more likely to participate in a math or science fair
3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem
In addition, young arts participants as compared with their peers are likely to:
Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently
Perform community service nearly twice as often