The LOUD Program

11/03/2020

Did you know that LOUD has an affiliate program in Sweden?? 🇸🇪 That's right! AND it's headed up by our own Josephine Forsman, talented educator and drummer of Sahara Hotnights 🥁 Check out their new page on the LOUD website: www.loudprogram.com/loud-sweden

11/02/2020

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Fall 2020 Songwriting Fund!! 🎉 Your support has provided online afterschool songwriting classes for students across LA and Santa Barbara. We are so grateful for your generosity that we made a video to express it!! 🙏 https://youtu.be/HQbA1bN9y8Y

10/13/2020

Great news! 🎉 LA County Board of Supervisors adopted the new regional blueprint! It includes strategies and goals for increasing arts education in school, after school, and in communities, including juvenile justice, foster youth, and workforce development systems. Thanks to everyone who supported this. Check it out:

The New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education contains strategies for increasing arts education in school, after school, and in communities, including juvenile justice, foster youth, and workforce development systems.

10/13/2020

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 13, the LA County Board of Supervisors will consider a motion to adopt a visionary new plan for arts education. Please provide your support and thank Supervisors Barger and Kuehl for their leadership and urge the board to adopt the New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education! Add YOUR voice and take ACTION for arts education! 🎹🎸🎬

On 10/13, the LA County Board of Supervisors will consider a motion to adopt a visionary new plan for arts education. Tell your Supervisor to adopt the New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education & support the arts for all children, youth, & families!

09/28/2020

The arts are a solution to some of students' most pressing needs right now. As the core learning subject best suited to social emotional learning, every student needs the arts more than ever. Find out why from at bit.ly/createsel 🎹🎸🎧🙏🏽

Right now, students need learning that supports their socio-emotional development, and the arts are unique in their ability to do so. Watch this video, and s...

09/23/2020

Thanks to everyone who has donated to the LOUD Songwriting Scholarship Fund, so far!! 🎹 We are truly grateful 🙏🏽 To ensure that we reach our $6,000 goal, we're extending the deadline to October 28th! Any donation amount will make an impact. To donate please visit http://www.loudprogram.com/scholarship 🎉

09/18/2020

In honor of , support a LOUD Songwriting Scholarship and help a student in need free their imagination and creativity! 🎸🎹🎤 $75 funds a full scholarship, but a gift of any size makes a big difference to help us reach our $6,000 goal! 🙏🏽Please share with other music lovers who believe in the transformative power of the arts. Visit www.loudprogram.com/scholarship to donate.

2020 has completely upended life as we know it. Education has been especially hard hit giving us a whole new set of challenges we never expected. With schools struggling to reopen and after-school and arts budgets severely cut, LOUD is meeting the demand with a live, interactive online songwriting c...

09/14/2020

🎉 Celebrate National Arts in Education Week by supporting a LOUD student scholarship! Please visit www.loudprogram.com/scholarship to donate. Let’s change a kid's life, one song at a time. 🎧🎸🎹