The annual symposium allows instructors, musicians, charitable donors, and local not-for-profits to meet with students and members of the community to better the state of arts education in Santa Barbara. This important program provides the foundation for creating better, more focused programs in the future. Additional education outreach initiatives such as collecting instruments for students in need, grants to community programs that wish to make use of facilities at the Santa Barbara Bowl, are available, notes Kenny Slaught. Scholarships for college students studying the performing arts. In addition, the foundation funds a children’s program at Cottage Hospital and many in-school and after-school programs, most notably in neighborhoods most affected by the concert season at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The Notes for Notes program, on the other hand, gives students free instruments and music lessons. A large volunteer committee oversees each of these education outreach initiatives.

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