Community Engagement Episode I: Tom Clowes, Executive Director of Crossing Borders Music

Community is a group of people sharing common experience, interest, characteristic, or geographic region.

Are you interested in getting involved in community engagement activities?

Would you like to know where and how to get started?

The following episodes will give you ideas about where to start and how to get involved.

After listening to the episodes try to answer the following questions:

1. What communities am I part of? What communities am I interested in being part of or working with?

2. What do I have to offer?

3. Are there any model of collaboration similar to what I'd like to do that I can get ideas from?

4. Do my own community members have a clear idea about what I am planning to do and the labor needs to be undertaken for the possible collaboration?



"Founder Tom Clowes has been teaching cello and Western-style music in Haitian summer music camps since 2000. Over the years, he fell in love with Haiti’s strong communities, proud history, and beautiful culture and arts. He learned of Haiti’s centuries-old Western classical music tradition, in which Haitian composers aimed to show the world that Haitians were just as capable and cultivated as any European, and that Haitian culture was just as worthy and dignified." https://crossingbordersmusic.org/about-us/our-story/


Haitian composers featured in this episode:
Sabrina C D Jean Louis: https://youtu.be/rfAefFLGdC4
Michel Monton: https://youtu.be/x_L-NLqxVpQ
Julio Racine: https://youtu.be/CorxuuaatAM

Opening and closing music:
Rastak Ensemble - Marochan: https://youtu.be/xqVNBnj2FDg

NNTV Podcast Series_Community Engagement-Episode I-Tom Clowes

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