The Torpedo Factory Art Center welcomes back ASO Sympatico for a special Saturday afternoon of music. This performance group was developed as a partnership between the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Alexandria City Public Schools to provide high-quality music education for local elementary students who are underrepresented minorities or at-risk youth. This performance will feature three of their music ensembles: strings, beginning xylophones, and bucket band.
This performance is free, but RSVP is requested.
This event is co-sponsored by the Torpedo Factory Art Center as part of the Community Partnership Program.
About ASO Sympatico
ASO Sympatico seeks to create safe spaces within which students can take risks and make strong choices, promote student ownership of their role in an interdependent ensemble. Ensembles are hosted at John Adams Elementary School, a Title I and minority-majority school that benefits from a longstanding dual-language program and a Kennedy Center arts-integration partnership (Changing Education through the Arts).
About the Torpedo Factory’s Community Partnership Program
The Torpedo Factory Art Center regularly co-presents programs with outside groups to bring new artists, works, and disciplines to our visitors. Recent partnerships have included Eames Armstrong, Heloisa Escudero, ReelAbilities Film Festival, AIA Northern Virginia, USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore, Nomadic Jazz, DC Public Opera, Underground Kitchen, Alexandria Choral Society, and Alexandria Symphony Orchestra.
