INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA
10255 E 25th Avenue 12, Aurora, CO 80010 www.insidetheorchestra.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To bring orchestra music to young children in the greater Denver metropolitan community, cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through an engaging first hand experience with the orchestra.

Immersive concerts designed for children six and under, Tiny Tots programs give young ones the chance to interact with musicians and performers and learn about instruments and the performing arts. Children are encouraged to respond to different elements of the music, from thinking about how it makes them feel to getting on their feet and moving. They are treated to demos by various instruments, shown a diverse array of performance styles from different cultural backgrounds, introduced to musical concepts, emotional understanding of the arts, and artistic expression. The music selection, design, and scripting of Tiny Tots is geared to connect very young children with music-physically, emotionally, and mentally. Tiny Tots programs include additional resources activities, including instrument"petting zoos", instrument making, time for creative exploration and in-depth resource guides geared towards families and schools to help bring the music alive at home and school before or after the concert. Tiny Tots has a suggested price, but no one is turned away-typically more than 50% of Tiny Tots attendees pay a reduced rate or nothing at all. Numbers served in 2019-2020: 10,631

Inside the Orchestra for Schools, Home-school Families and the Sensory Friendly Community are immersive interactive music program geared for a range of ages, but primarily serving K-8 students. Programs are offered in English and Bilingual formats, featuring culturally relevant repertoire and scripting. Conductors and teaching artists engage students throughout the programs, asking questions and teaching them about the music as it is playing around them. Students are treated to up-close-and-personal demos by the strings, woodwinds, horns, and percussion. Programing can also include lesson plans, at-home activities, follow up programs, and hands-on time with instruments. School programming is provided free of charge and primarily to schools with free/reduced lunch rates over 70%. Number served in 2019-20: 6,559

Outside the Orchestra is designed to allow schools and families to bring the orchestra directly to them-into their homes, virtual classrooms, or wherever learning is taking place. Outside the Orchestra's digital content ranges widely, and includes no-prep-no-mess activities, themed play lists, performance videos, hands-on STEAM experiments, music games and educational videos about the orchestra and its instruments - just to name a few. Programming is specifically created with varying demographics and learning environments in mind and the content is adaptable for multiple educational and recreational, situations. Content includes online, always-free resources such as sortable activities, full themed activity guides, audio play list libraries, and musical games, as well as more robust learning platforms to engage children on a deeper level, such as in-depth student and teacher learning guides, and virtual Tiny Tots programming including performance videos that are sortable by instrument family or engagement type, a resource guide with information on the composers and activities to connect children with the music at home, audio play lists and videos that dive further into the theme. Numbers served in 2019-20: 99833

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