The Circle Keepers

Arts Programming, Community Building, Education:

The Circle Keepers’ Sounds of Justice & Joy is a healing centered, trauma informed and culturally sustaining pedagogies based activist music education program that  provides middle & high school students with opportunities to:

Listen to, research & analyze music about themes of identity, peace, justice, safety, belonging, mental health, and social justice, among other topics 

Explore music making through a variety of different musical styles and genres, choosing their preferred instruments such as guitars, drums, keyboards, etc, as well as singing, 

Compose original songs that tell their own stories as a way to make their voices heard. 

Curate, Organize & Present socially conscious musical performances for their communities in efforts to engage community members and stakeholders in a process of transformation. 

They stand affirmed in the words of Toni Cade Bambara, that: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible!”