$60.00 — available on subscription
Enjoy this 7 week all ages course on songwriting with LEAF Teaching Artists Melissa McKinney and Kayla Lynn McKinney!
Empowerment Songwriting
with LEAF Resident Teaching Artists Melissa McKinney and Kayla Lynn McKinney
Mondays 3:30-4:30 (Zoom), April 12 – May 28, all ages welcome
$60 per 7-week course
This class will by led by Mother/Daughter team Kayla Lynn and Melissa McKinney. Both
musicians, and educators, they have a passion for mental health awareness specifically with
middle and high school students. Participants will be working through a creative workbook
where they will draw, doodle, create, and write their feelings. They will take a journey that will
incorporate music and help them put their feelings into words. We will discuss how we coped
with our feelings during this Global pandemic and talk about how we can use our experience
over the past year to prepare us for the future. We will put an emphasis on how important it is to
connect with others who understand what you are going through and how this pandemic has
brought us all together. We hope that participants will come out of this class realizing that
although this past year has been really hard, it has made us stronger and we can use that
strength to help others.
AN URGENT LETTER FROM THE LEAF BOARD:
For nearly 30 years, LEAF Global Arts has connected people through the power of art, music, and culture. Every shared moment has been made possible because of you – our community.
The LEAF Festival is critical to funding LEAF’s larger work: providing global cultural arts programming for thousands of local youth and preserving cultures and traditions around the world.
This year, we are facing a financial crossroads: between the loss of last fall’s Festival, losing a majority of our arts education funding in 2025, and not fully recovering from COVID, the future is bleak. The upcoming LEAF Festival could be our last if we don’t come together to sustain the heart of LEAF’s mission – but we have seen what this community can do when united for a cause greater than itself.
To open the Festival experience to as many people as possible, and to rally the full spirit of LEAF, we are offering a limited number of LEAF LOVE Tickets at a significant discount.
These special tickets, offered at 30% off (our highest discount, even more so than our Early Bird pricing) are our way of ensuring everyone has a place in this story. Full-priced tickets also remain available for those with the means to give a little more to help support LEAF’s vital work.
Your presence, your voice, and your support matter more than ever right now. Join us in making this LEAF Festival one that the world will never forget and ensuring the music continues for generations to come.
Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing). Mayani is extremely happy and is currently teaching other youth the culture.