Hello! Detroit Youth Volume is

Teaching youth ages 3-18 to play violin using the world-class Suzuki method & social justice pedagogies to nurture creativity, resilience, collaboration & higher-order thinking skills.
 
Striving towards racial and economic justice, both as a community of people and a non-profit, through our practices inside and outside of the classroom.

​Collaborating with local artists as guest instructors to develop positive cultural identities in our students as Detroiters and as youth of color (applicable to 65% of our kids). Check out our Special Projects from past years resulting in albums celebrating hip hop, jazz, techno, and Detroit Voices.

Making quality arts education accessible to low-income families, especially youth from Capuchin Soup Kitchen, since 2010. Paying and scholarship students alike receive the same excellent music education.

Providing weekly private lessons & monthly group classes online through 2020. Physical studio is within the Cathedral Church of St Paul building in the Cass Corridor arts district of Detroit. Shared office is Allied Media Projects address on Third Street.

Growing Equitable Music Studios:
​a Course of Action

For studio music teachers who believe
every child can change the world. 
Expand studio diversity, access and inclusion
​while nurturing students as changemakers. ​
Detroit Youth Volume's co-founder & Director, Clara Hardie, presents a six-week Course of Action entitled Growing Equitable Music Studios (GEMS)! Case studies and templates from Detroit Youth Volume are provided as inspirational tools.

Click the "Learn more!" button so receive GEMS email communications. You can also follow Clara's Facebook/Instagram accounts!

Prospective students, schedule a phone call with Clara to receive additional course information and get registered; email clara@detroityouthvoluem.org. 

Dates & course content details can be found in the Teaching Training & Think Tank tab above.

Youth Volume Think Tank

The Youth Volume Think Tank is generating practical solutions for individual music teachers to nurture their studios with diversity, equity and inclusion ASAP. 

Upcoming Tank Tank sessions will feature graduates of the virtual Growing Equitable Music Studios Course of Action who will share the results of their course work and answer questions from our virtual audience. Any one is welcome!
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  • June 18, 2021 1:30-3:30p
  • October 29, 2021 1:30-3:30p

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"Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.” ~Shinichi Suzuki