Arts in the Afternoon a Raging Success!

They did what comes naturally to Rotarians everywhere. They blended their passion with their Rotarian desire to have a positive effect in the community, and applied it with inspiration and compassion to an area of tremendous need. What resulted is Arts in the Afternoon, the latest brain child of Sunrise Rotarians Bruce McGuire and Peggy Alberti.

AITA is an after-school enrichment program for middle schoolers, provided at little or no cost to the school and students. In a time of diminishing academic budgets and decimated arts programs, AITA is filling a gap and providing school-based instruction not available anywhere else.

AITA brings together expert instructors (Peggy and Bruce included) from the community, Rotarian volunteers and motivated art, music and dance loving students to learn instrument building and performance skills in a fun, safe and challenging environment.

After this first very successful session, Peggy and Bruce have plans to expand the program in breadth and depth offering additional classes in new arts-related areas.

To see the students in class and performing please watch this video produced by Sunrise Rotarian Jeremy Lezin.