Providing access to high-quality community arts programs since 2000.
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BBB4E
empowers youth and families to become lifelong learners through exposure to engaging experiences in literary, visual and musical arts.
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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
Brushes
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
Books
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, Midwest Adult Choir
Bands
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Offer a recurring gift to ensure that community arts programs are within reach of the students across Northwest Indiana and Northeast Illinois.
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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.
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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