"A Place for Everyone" Music Therapy Concert Series
 

The Institute for Maximum Human Potential’s (IMHP) Los Angeles Institute of Film Education (LIFE) program is proud to present its “A Place for Everyone”: Music Therapy Concert Series.  This concert series is designed to enhance intergenerational and cross-cultural engagement of individuals, families, communities and the wider society. 

  

Music Therapy Concert Series
 
 IMHP endeavors to use music as the great equalizer to encourage socialization, communication, and self expression in a safe and inviting environment in which individuals, no matter the ability or age, may explore, participate or simply relax. Music as art is a powerful medium for unity through social integration.  IMHP has created unlikely partnerships through exposing various communities to a culture of the arts, uniting as one from opposite sides of a vast spectrum.  The most recent of these was a concert featuring Vesta Williams on 9/10/11 in which we created a moment that drew a diverse crowd in terms of age, race, religious affiliation, orientation, etc. and unified them through the power of music.  Two of the attendees included an 80 year old woman and her 13 year old great-granddaughter who now continue to share stories about a communal memory born from a singer’s ability to engage the crowd.   On a normal weekend, this 80 year old woman sits alone in her house and her great granddaughter sits on a computer—both removed from a network of friends and each other.

 

Vesta Williams passed away just two weeks after she performed at our concert and it was only then that we realized her life challenges paralleled  those of so many we serve on a daily basis.  Looking back, we remembered how thankful she was for being honored and able to intimately connect with the crowd from all walks of life.  She had young and old, black and white crooning along with her and later repeating her “Oh baby, baby please” chant at work and school.   It is in Vesta’s honor that we continue our concert series as a beacon for cross cultural intergenerational communalism and fostering healthy social interaction.

 

Our Concert series will consist of three events which pair veteran artists with young aspiring artists from different genres/ethnicities/generations creating an ambiance that is energetic and inviting. This fosters opportunity for mentoring and encouraging relationships between aspiring and veteran artists to create common ground around arts.  

March 10, 2012 is the first in our concert series featuring veteran artists Chante Moore and Malina Moye with up and coming artists JetStream and Harrell at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center.  Our second concert in the series is scheduled for July 2012.  The series culminates in December honoring the legacy of Vesta Williams.
 
The success of our series will be credited largely to our partners and sponsors, who lend their names and financial support to the event. The proceeds raised by the concert series will support IMHP's Los Angeles Institute of Film Education (LIFE).  This year’s goal is $200,000.

 

Organizational Description
 
Institute for Maximum Human Potential (IMHP) is a human service and community development agency focusing on families, children in foster care, families with minors involved in the juvenile system, the learning disabled, and families with social, emotional and economical issues.  The mission of IMHP is through a collective effort to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and neighborhoods by addressing human rights issues in our community.  Our programs are built around strength based principles, not individual, family or community deficits. Our signature programs include: Family Preservation, Los Angeles Institute of Film Education (LIFE), The Ultimate Performance (TUP), and The Affordable Housing Recapture Initiative (TAHRI).
 
The mission of LIFE is to redefine community renewal and redevelopment through education, hands-on job training, and long-term economic investment in Los Angeles by the creation of an infrastructure and environment that empowers students to change their community and the world through media education and the arts.  LIFE has been creating a learning/work environment where inner-city at-risk youth receive hands-on educational programming to learn every aspect of film production and eventually give rise to a new generation of filmmakers who will tell their stories spreading a message of hope to future generations.
 
The Institute for Maximum Human Potential and the Los Angeles Institute of Film Education hold as their motto “Leaving individuals and communities better than we found them.” 


Concert Details


Doors Open at 6:00 pm