St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts (FoTA) announce the schedule for Our Town: Beats & Streets, a summer-long arts program with public concerts, drumming workshops and community drum circles running from May - August. 

Beats and Streets will kick off on May 20th, 2012 at the Children First Ice Cream Social at Wolfe Park with a drumming performance by Chico Perez and Stanley Kipper of the New Primitives. 

Join us in the Parktacular Parade on June 16th  led by Batucada do Norte, the Twin Cities’ own homegrown Brazilian percussion band. July 19th at 7PM, Mu Daiko presents a Taiko Drumming concert featuring Japanese taiko drums. Minneapolis-based "Buckets and Tap Shoes”, will give us  an explosive, high-energy rhythmic concert when they take the stage at Wolfe Park on August 30th  at 7PM.

In addition to these four FREE public concerts, FoTA will also present community drumming circles led by Jeff Scroggins, co-Founder and Musical Director of Earthshake World Rhythm Ensemble. For more community interaction with youth, seniors, disabled adults and families, Stanley Kipper and Chico Perez will be taking their Beats & Streets drumming workshops to six partnering community organizations during the months of July and August.

St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts (FotA) is seeking a high school student from the community with a passion for the arts to serve as youth representative on the Board of Directors for the 2012-2013 School Year. 

If you want to learn more or are interested, Click Here! 

Board Meetings
The next board meetings is Thursday, May 31, 7:00 pm at City Hall

Arts for Life Scholarship
Arts for Life scholarship program is currently accepting applications. The deadline is  June 5th, 2012. Click Here for the application or call 952-928-6422.