Thu 7/16 @ 7:30PM
Five years ago, Oberlin professor of music education Jody Kerchner started a new choral program from scratch at, of all places, Grafton Correctional Institutional, a mere 15 minutes from Oberlin but a whole different world socially, culturally and in many other ways. But she bridged that gap with OMA: Oberlin Music at Grafton, to give inmates a tool to reimagine what their lives could become.
For the next edition of Oberlin Stage Left, Kerchner and some of her former OMAG student choir assistants and Oberlin Strings facilitators join her to talk about how this community outreach to this very different population impacted their lives and increased their understanding of the challenges facing people from other backgrounds.
You can listen here starting Thursday July 16 @ 7:30pm. As with all other Oberlin Stage Left programs, it will remain online for listening after that.
oberlin.edu/conservatory/stage-left