Empowerment through the performing arts.
<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Geneva, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: medium" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#663300"> <p>The Arusha Arts Initiative is a group of Juilliard-trained artists who believe in the power of change through the arts. Since 2009, the AAI team has offered workshops in Dance, Drama and Music in Arusha, Tanzania each summer.</p> <p>Arts education encourages creative thinking while developing skills necessary for independent and collaborative work. Our arts workshops offer the opportunity for our students to conceptualize the learning process in a new way that stretches the limits of their personal risk-taking. Our programs strive to develop communication, problem solving and teamwork skills needed in everyday life. </p> <p><font><strong><em>Our mission is to empower our students through teaching the performing arts. We strive to use the arts as a vehicle to help our students understand their individuality, their power and their full potential. This empowerment will enable our students to initiate creative and positive change within their community. We aim to engage in a cultural exchange as we share what we know about dance, drama and music.</em></strong></font></p> <p><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: 800" class="Apple-style-span"><i>More information: <a href="http://www.arushaartsinitiative.org" title="" target="">www.arushaartsinitiative.org</a>.</i></span></p></font></span>