CANOAE String Programme
The Caribbean Network Arts and Education (CANOAE) Foundation is housed at the Holistic School in St. Ann’s, which is a private, fee-paying school with a curriculum based on arts integration. The Holistic Music School is an after school music program to which CANOAE offers scholarships to financially challenged, talented young musicians for private and group instruction. The grand objective of this non-profit foundation is to systematically reduce poverty in the Caribbean through the development of quality education systems and networks. In this regard, it is the mission of the foundation to lobby the government on educational reform and to encourage the concept of a “holistic” approach to education, stressing the now widely accepted notion that academic achievement is improved when the arts are included as an integral part of a curriculum.
The First Citizen’s Asset Management/CANOAE String Program was created by Caitlyn Kamminga in September 2010. Underwritten by FCAM, the program was originally envisaged as a teacher training program for string students at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s Academy for Performing Arts. Commencing in January 2011, this pilot program has provided scholarship tuition on violin, viola, cello and double bass for five students from St. Ann’s RC, five students from Belmont Melville Memorial and students from the Tallman Foundation in Gonzales. Stipends are given to five students from the APA to teacher train in situ, with the long term goal of permanent employment running the string program at the Holistic Music School.
The First Citizen’s Asset Management/CANOAE String Program was created by Caitlyn Kamminga in September 2010. Underwritten by FCAM, the program was originally envisaged as a teacher training program for string students at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s Academy for Performing Arts. Commencing in January 2011, this pilot program has provided scholarship tuition on violin, viola, cello and double bass for five students from St. Ann’s RC, five students from Belmont Melville Memorial and students from the Tallman Foundation in Gonzales. Stipends are given to five students from the APA to teacher train in situ, with the long term goal of permanent employment running the string program at the Holistic Music School.