South Dade Spring Showcase

18 North Krome Avenue,Homestead FL 33030

04 May, 2023

Description

Watch our students shine on the big stage! Local students of the Guitars Over Guns program work with their mentors for months to be ready for their big performance. This is an opportunity for families and the wider community to experience our students performing live. Students will perform live including guitar, bass, keys, drums, production, vocals, rap and spoken word. Trust us, you don’t want to miss it! The South Dade Spring Showcase will feature students from Cutler Bay Middle School, Homestead Middle School, Redland Middle School, Richmond Heights Middle School, South Dade Middle School, Homestead Senior High School and Miami Southridge Senior High School. Guitars Over Guns is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Miami and Chicago, offering students from our most vulnerable communities a powerful combination of music education and mentorship with professional musicians to help them overcome hardship, find their voice and reach their potential as tomorrow’s leaders. Established in 2008, we have served more than 8,000 students over the past fifteen years. guitarsoverguns.org @guitarsoverguns Guitars Over Guns is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Miami and Chicago, offering students from our most vulnerable communities a powerful combination of music education and mentorship with professional musicians to help them overcome hardship, find their voice and reach their potential as tomorrow’s leaders. Guitars Over Guns creates safe spaces for youth to express themselves through music and empowers them to make positive choices at school, at home and in their communities. Established in 2008, we have served more than 8,000 students over the past fifteen years. Guitars Over Guns’ unique curriculum emphasizes social-emotional learning and outcomes through music and arts instruction. After each session, mentors assess students’ academic performance, school and program attendance, artistic progress and peer interactions. We use social-emotional learning measurements to evaluate key competencies such as empathy, teamwork, initiative, responsibility and problem solving. Recent evaluations indicate that over 90 percent of Guitars Over Guns students improved their academic performance, overall conduct and decision-making skills. These measurements are byproducts of a greater shift that is occurring in the way these young people think about the world and their place in it.