CIM Black Student Union

The BSU Benefit Concert is here!

Join CIM students, alumni, and faculty for a powerful evening of music by Black and Brown composers — celebrating culture, excellence, and community.

🎟 Tickets are FREE
🔗 Donate using the link in our bio

All proceeds benefit the BSU Student Emergency Assistance Fund, directly supporting Black and Brown students at CIM.

Reserve your seat, bring a friend, and don’t miss the concert of the year ✨

🎵We’re so thrilled to welcome Shawn Okpebholo, renowned Nigerian-American composer and Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music, for an inspiring discussion this Saturday, 2–3:30 PM in Thomas Commons!

We’ll dive into topics like career paths, mindset, self-advocacy, and more.
Come ready with your questions — and don’t miss the New Music Symposium with Mr. Okpebholo at 4 PM in Room 217!

Let’s learn, connect, and celebrate artistry together. ✨

This morning, the BSU executive team volunteered at the as part of day of service! We very much enjoyed working and talking with workers and fellow volunteers of many backgrounds and different stories! Each day, the Greater Cleveland food bank prepares 6000-7000 meals that are distributed to different nutrition centers in the Northeast Ohio area! These meals are important due to the lack of access to nutritional food in the East Cleveland area! We are very happy to contribute to this organizations mission!

Please join us for a fun little pizza dinner at 7:00 on Monday as we introduce leadership, outline the year, and answer any questions about the BSU students may have :) We hope to see YOU there!

Please welcome the new 2024-2025 BSU Board!!!!! We are so thrilled to be running and hosting events all throughout this school year including regular meetings as well as fundraisers and concerts. Stay tuned to the IG for exciting content and announcements 🤎🤎🤎

Jamie Walton Jr - President

Adam Lindsey - Secretary

Milo Klise - Student Engagement Coordinator/ Treasurer

We are so thrilled to host Curtis Stewart, tomorrow in discussion, from 2:30-3:30 in Thomas Commons‼️We will be focusing on the topic of advocacy and self advocacy in today’s classical music world! Please come with lots of questions and consider also attending the New Music Symposium with Mr. Stewart from 4-6 the same evening in 217.

(bring your instruments 🤩🤩🤩🤩)

Last night was one for the books ✨

Thank you to everyone who came out to support, thank you all who watched the live stream, thank you to all the student and faculty performers—y’all were amazing and we simply could not have done it without y’all!

If you weren’t able to catch the live stream or attend in person, we will soon be posting some videos from the concert ❤

P.S if you haven’t donated yet and still want to—the donation link is posted in our bio 🤎✊🏾

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The CIM Black Student Union was honored last Sunday to host The Cleveland Orchestra's Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow Allison Loggins-Hull.

Clarinetist Marquise Lindsey-Bradley (Yusuf) and pianist Matias Cuevas (Shapiro) worked with Loggins-Hull on her piece "Kalief," based on the tragic story of Kalief Browder. She shared how the art of storytelling is embedded in her composition process and challenged the students to find more grit in their expression.

"I started out simply telling Kalief's story through my interpretation," remarks Lindsey-Bradley, "but she inspired me to let the clarinet embody his spirit."

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The time has come again for our 3rd Annual Benefit Concert!!! Save the date and hit the donation link in our bio 🤎

If you are new here and don’t know what this concert is… The BSU is putting on a concert that highlights the works of Black and Latin composers to raise money for the Musical Pathways students here at CIM to help offset the cost for them to attend music summer programs. Last year we raised almost $8,000 so this year the goal is to reach $10,000.

The concert is Sunday, October 9th in Mixon Hall at 6pm! If you can’t make it in person we will post the livestream link as soon as it’s available! We hope to see as many of you there as possible 🤎✊🏾

Graphics & logo by: .rich

✨ 2022-2023 Executive Board ✨

After a phenomenal weekend and finalizing the plans for our 3rd Annual Benefit Concert (more information on the concert will be out soon) I wanted to share some photos that took of us the other day!

We have so many exciting things planned for this year and can’t wait to share them with you all 🤎✊🏾

…because when it comes to FOOD gonna hit every time! Everyone loved the food and was asking for seconds, can’t wait to work with them again 🤎✊🏾