Social Innovation Forum selected Shelter Music Boston as their first ever Classical Music Social Innovator!
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Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum provides a unique opportunity for innovative nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to gain visibility, expand their networks, and build capacity.
Free For All Concert Fund is the sponsoring partner for this collaboration.
Free For All Concert Fund is the sponsoring partner for this collaboration.
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“My soul always shines—and brighter with your concert as a flower grows from your melody, beyond these stone walls. Thank you.”
Alexis, a Shattuck Shelter guest 4/1/2013
Our Mission:
Shelter Music Boston is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization dedicated to bringing classical chamber music into homeless shelters. All people deserve access to the dignity, creativity, and passion of classical music, whether or not they have a home.
During classical music performances guests in homeless shelters feel the respect and dignity of interacting with great art. Our listeners tell us the music soothes their souls and the music gives them hope. Classical chamber music has an immediate and positive impact in the lives of homeless people.
During classical music performances guests in homeless shelters feel the respect and dignity of interacting with great art. Our listeners tell us the music soothes their souls and the music gives them hope. Classical chamber music has an immediate and positive impact in the lives of homeless people.
Currently, Shelter Music Boston performs monthly concerts in four partner shelters: Dimock Center, Pine Street Men's and Women's Inns, and Shattuck Shelter.
We return each month to the same four shelters with a new program of classical chamber music, performed to the highest artistic standards.
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We return each month to the same four shelters with a new program of classical chamber music, performed to the highest artistic standards.
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Milestones . . .
- May 2010: First concerts at Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center and Shattuck Shelter.
- May 10, 2011: Marked the first year anniversary of Shelter Music Boston concerts.
- October 12, 2011: Shelter Music Boston musicians commenced a new shelter concert series at Rosie's Place. This series was made possible by a grant from the PatsyLu Fund for Women's Projects, of the Open Meadows Foundation.
- March 2012: Concerts started at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program and Pine Street Inn. These concerts made possible, in part, by a grant from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust.
- May 2012: Concerts started at The Dimock Center. The May 15 Shattuck Shelter concert marked the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Shelter Music Boston concerts at Shattuck. The performance was the 22nd SMB concert in this shelter.
- October 2012: 70th SMB Shelter Concert!
In 2013 SMB musicians will perform 40-50 concerts in Boston shelters.
