Scrollworks
Scrollworks gives everyone the opportunity to participate!
Learn to play with Free Music Lessons from Scrollworks! Everyone who walks in the door gets free music lessons! Instruction is offered in piano, drums, guitar, winds, and strings. Instruments are provided, or you can bring your own. Ages 7 to adult. Lessons last about 30 minutes. Try more than one instrument! No need to register in advance.
Beginning Friday, June 12, our teaching schedule will be as follows:
WIF=Warriors International Fellowship, 3112 Ensley Five Points Ave W
HUM=Highlands United Methodist, 1045 20th St S
Mondays at WIF, 11 am to 2 pm
Thursdays at WIF, 5 pm to 8 pm
Fridays at HUM, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Saturdays at HUM, 12 pm to 4 pm
We will be closed July 3rd and 4th.
Ensembles meet from 6:30 pm to 8 pm on Mondays at Art's Music
and Tuesdays at NorthStar Youth Ministries.
Scrollworks brings together youth from a broad cross-section of society to demonstrate our belief that those who play music together begin to live the experience of community. Scrollworks is an atypical community music school designed to provide intensive music instruction to anyone and everyone, including disadvantaged children who otherwise would not have access to quality instruction. Stop by, pick out an instrument, and get a free lesson... it's that simple!
Scrollworks gives back to the community. As students skills progress, each is invited to join MYO's ensembles and orchestras. The ensembles travel outside the greater metro area to all of Alabama and beyond. Local musicians are invited to join us in rehearsal and performance in order for all participants to grow and develop. Our students serve the community by performing in a wide variety of venues.
Though the Scrollworks program is modeled on Venezuela's El Sistema, there's nothing else truly like it in all the world. The only way to truly understand is to participate... so we invite you, whoever you are, to come to Scrollworks for just one afternoon. The experience may change your view of Birmingham, community, and the world.
Children's mental processes change when they learn to make music. Studies of students in Venezuela's El Sistema music program have shown them to have "marked improvements in academic performance, self-esteem, leadership qualities, and social integration". The founder of El Sistema, Jose Abreu, says that when a student "generates musical harmony, (he) begins to understand from within what essential harmony is...human harmony." And he says that an orchestra "is a community where the essential and exclusive feature is that it is the only community that comes together with the fundamental objective of agreeing with itself."