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IntersectionsProgram

The Black Violin Intersections program is a music access program that offers underserved 3rd - 5th graders in Broward County public schools with free 90 minute violin lessons after school once a week during the school year. In the 2023/2024 school year, Black Violin Foundation Inc. partnered with the Florida Youth Orchestra to provide lessons to students at North Andrews Gardens, and Meadowbrook Elementary School with lessons. The 2024/2025 school year will be BVF Inc.'s 3rd consecutive year of hosting this program and we intend to expand the program to two additional elementary schools. Through this program young people are introduced to classical arts who otherwise might not have access through a free in school performance by professional classical musicians, and are given the skills to perform in front of their peers and loved ones. 

This initiative was created by Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin who have effectively used their genre bending music and performance as a method to challenge the perception of who has access to the classical arts, what a violin can sound like all while stretching the boundaries of Black creativity. The intention of this program is to ​build a strong violin pipeline that includes BIPOC youth and other financially marginalized youth who are traditionally locked out of the classical arts.