Our Mission:
Street Symphony harnesses the convening power of music to invite connection and relationship
Our Vision:
Street Symphony envisions a world where diverse communities practice empathy and build relationships
Programs
Centered in practices of relationship, renewal, re-entry, and recovery, Street Symphony presents musical programs in Skid Row built on sustained relationships and partnerships with Skid Row organizations and community individuals.
Music with a mission
Monthly performance event dedicated to The Midnight Mission (TMM) participants occurring every 4th Thursday of the month after lunch services.
Music for the Soul
Every month, Street Symphony musicians and Downtown Women’s Center residents share meditative musical offerings to convene vulnerable spaces of community and conversation.
Drumming in the Park
In the Los Angeles Recreational Park, Ase Ashe Drummers, perform twice a month. Drumming events build community connections. Learn More
Street Symphony Partners
- The Midnight Mission
- Downtown Women's Center
- Los Angeles Parks
- Skid Row Arts Alliance (SRAA)
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations, Department of Rehabilitative Programs (CDCR)
- California Institution for Women (CIW)
- Church of Our Savior
- Department of Mental Health
- Los Angeles County Jails Education Based Incarceration
- Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)
- Longy School of Music of Bard College
- People Assisting the Homeless (PATH)
- The Urban Voices Project
- Weingart Center
History
Founded in 2011, Street Symphony has presented over 900 free, powerful musical events and workshops to Los Angeles communities disenfranchised by homelessness, poverty, and incarceration. Street Symphony presents regular events at Skid Row clinics and homeless shelters, permanent supportive housing agencies, and LA County Jails. Performance occurs on a monthly basis at 5 partner venues: The Midnight Mission, Downtown Women’s Center, The Weingart Center in Skid Row, PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) Community facilities, and education-based incarceration programs at 4 Los Angeles County Jail facilities. Street Symphony presents over 90 world-class events per year, reaching up to 10,000 people who would not have access to concert halls or public venues. The Street Symphony model of community engagement has been lauded as a new, radical model of how artistic institutions can authentically and equitably engage communities around them.
Over the years, Street Symphony programs have moved from ‘outreach’ to authentic, mutual engagement, creating spaces of cultural exchange and vitality with communities too-often relegated to the margins of society. Street Symphony programs are designed to create authentic connections, and a restorative lifeline, through the power of music.
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!
Embarking on our 10th year in 2021, we set out a fundraising goal of $100,000, which - thanks to all of you - we accomplished! We're looking forward to keeping the momentum going with more concert events and workshops in the Skid Row community, as well as our upcoming public concert series launching this spring.
THANK YOU for an amazing decade of support, heartfelt connections, and an opportunity to embrace our spirits through music. We look forward to building another decade of relationships, connection, and community.
Please enjoy our 2021 - 10 Year Anniversary Lookbook
Featuring a decade of history and looking forward to another!