For the second year running, the Long Beach Salvation Army is opening its doors at the Donald & Priscilla Hunt Red Shield Community Center this Saturday, providing an afternoon of games and activities for kids and families in the community.
The series will run through the month of May and features mostly free educational, artistic, and musical events and activities including painting, beading, dance, sound baths and concerts.
In 2006, longtime musician Barry Cogert applied for a grant to bring together youth to rehearse jazz music and play in a community performance. Gathering together 10 middle school musicians, Cogert and his band rehearsed over the course of eight weeks. As the grant cycle came to a close, culminating with the performance, Cogert thought […]