{"id":2648,"date":"2008-04-17T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2008-04-17T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:57:18","slug":"middle-schoolers-unleash-their-inner-rock-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2008\/04\/17\/middle-schoolers-unleash-their-inner-rock-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle schoolers unleash their inner rock star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vsa\" On Friday, April 18, Augsburg College will host the seventh annual Metro<\/p>\n

Arts Festival, a collaborative festival between the Augsburg Music<\/p>\n

Therapy Program and VSA Arts of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Over 100 Twin Cities middle school students with disabilities will take part in this year’s “Everyone’s a Rock Star” event. The middle schoolers will attend sessions including “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” “Rocker Apparel 101,” and “Intro to the Beats.” Members of “The Abdomen” — a sibling pop-rock group that was voted “Best Teenage Musicians” by the Twin Cities Music Academy — will also perform.<\/p>\n

The festival, funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, focuses on the concept of strength, emphasized by activities, to empower the students and encourage artistic expression.<\/p>\n

The collaboration is a valuable one for all involved. Augsburg’s approximately 40 music therapy students gain valuable experience while providing musical and artistic activity.<\/p>\n

Augsburg College is the only private college in the state of Minnesota to offer a Music Therapy major. The Music Therapy major at Augsburg emphasizes theory, practice, and research and follows the standard education requirements set forth by the American Music Therapy Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, April 18, Augsburg College will host the seventh annual Metro Arts Festival, a collaborative festival between the Augsburg Music Therapy Program and VSA Arts of Minnesota. Over 100 Twin Cities middle school students with disabilities will take part in this year’s “Everyone’s a Rock Star” event. The middle schoolers will attend sessions including …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[992,1886,2016,2064,3068],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-everyones-a-rock-star","tag-metro-arts-festival","tag-music-therapy-program","tag-national-endowment-for-the-arts","tag-vsa-arts-of-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}