“We occupy a partnership with Neighborhood Houses and we offer an after school program for St. Louis City Public Schools,and I teach Street Drumming and Art of Magic. And lawful now those are probably two of the most fun ones that I do. For the street drumming one, being a musician, and it’s always awesome seeing a room full of 50 elementary school age kids playing on buckets in unison,it’s pleasing. And the kids love it and occupy a lot of fun. And in the art of magic workshop – I designed that because I’m a magician – the kids are just mind blown. I’ll display them a trick and teach them how to do it, and they’re like, or “Wow that’s it?!” I do this trick where I pull an eight foot tall straw out of a bag,and seeing their faces, amazed, or then I teach them how to do it and I see all these wheels turning in their heads and they get so excited and motivated,and they want to do other tricks and that’s it. Whenever I teach a mural making workshop, we’ll
talk approximately murals we’ll talk approximately drawing and painting, and they’ll start painting,and they’ll get this moment when they’re done and they peer at it and they’re like “Wow, that’s awesome.” That’s the moment, and like “Yeah,this is it.”“ Miles Dela Cruz: Development Manager and Visual Art/Music/Theater Mentor at Freedom Arts & Education Cente
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