OCCTAC NEWS

Dear Amigos! We have been blessed with support from our community and we are grateful to be able to announce several new gifts of support! We received funding from: 1. The Ahmanson Foundation for our Early Start program 2. the Orange County Community Foundation to purchase violins for our Suzuki Violin program 3. Festival of Children Foundation for our new Pre-Kinder Arts Program 4. Zonta Foundation to provide Scholarships to Teen Moms for their babies so they can enroll in college and our Job Training program at OCCTAC. and  5. Pacific Life Foundation for scholarships for Special Needs students! Thank you - Gracias!  The Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center (OCCTAC) is a 501(c)3 community-based ARTS organization dedicated to education and empowerment of at-risk youth and children with special needs of limited resources. Founded in 2000, and adjacent to the Bowers Museum, is a place where emotion is in motion. C...

The Suzuki Violin Students at OCCTAC have been busy. Saturday, Oct. 1st, Irvine Global Village Festival Students from both SASS and TEC played their violins and serenaded children attending the Festival. The TEC Suzuki Booth became the Children’s music lounge, wedged between face painting and Japanese paper folding. We even got an interview with the Irvine City Community News reporter and the children played for the cameras. Hoping they will appear sometime later this year on the cultural page . The reporter studied violin as a youth and knew who Dr. Suzuki was. How lucky can you get. Monday, Oct. 10, Benise concert at the Grove, Spanish guitar and Latin Violinist as seen on PBS Ms. Cynthia and 16 SASS students and parent chaperones are invited to attend the Benise concert and stay for a ‘meet and greet’ after the concert. The complimentary tickets where made possible by the kind effort of Omar Lopez , the violinist featured at the concert....