Listen to This

Just finished reading a food article that also involves music. The article is about a teacher in the Jane-Finch area, filmmaker Juan Baquero, teacher Stephen Gilbert and law student Sara Chan. The film is Listen to This and it was screened at Toronto's Hot Docs festival. The film demonstrates the power of the arts to give young people self-confidence and skills. The music programme which has continued since the making of the film affords students the opportunity to work with modern music which offers one avenue for students.
Hopefully, students will also have the opportunity to become involved in programmes like Sistema which works with students from grade one up and involves them in orchestras. Involvement is daily with lessons and group involvement. Sistema which originated in Venezuela is now making inroads into the United States because their prodigy now conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Hope to have more to report on these projects.