Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project - 501(c)3 Non-Profit Program

Our mission is to utilize Jazz music, its derivatives, history, art, media and technology as a means to promote learning, communication and self-expression. To provide free concerts and a safe and diverse forum for civic engagement and cultural enlightenment for all ages and nationalities.

The Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project is a non-profit organization.

• We believe creativity is as important in education as literacy and we treat it with the same status.

• We believe that by exposing children and the community at large to Jazz, a vital American art form, positive and lasting transformations will take place.

• We believe creative expression is an opportunity to learn; those opportunities become more real and inspired through direct involvement and mentoring.

Anticipated Outcomes

The Mobile Jazz Project acknowledges the importance of initiative in adolescents – particularly in the development of 21st century skills and the effectiveness of after school activities.

The Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project will have promoted positive youth development, creativity and entrepreneurial skills and has the capability to give after school youthactivities an equivalent status to school, family and peers as an effective context for development. The project works to achieve a level of “critical consciousness” allowing youth of all backgrounds, the opportunity to openly explore their own potential using music, the arts and technology as tools for communication and enrichment.

Benefits

• Learn from master artists, musicians and educators
• Increases achievement in all fields of study
• Improves grades and standardized test scores
• Improves real time communication skills
• Mentoring by exceptional Male and Female role models
• Provides the opportunity to participate in a variety of disciplines and capacities
• Daily live performances and talks by world-class musicians
• Develops time management skills, self-expression and open mindedness
• Provides opportunities to engage in positive musical, artistic and social activities within supervised settings