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Downtown Columbia: Green River Arts set to offer G.R.A.C.E. ANOTHER GROUP SHOWS FAITH IN DOWNTOWN: Green River Arts is set to open the doors of a school just off the Square on Jamestown Street, in the building once occupied by the Dream Depot, soon. Author, public school teacher, painter, singer and martial arts practitioner Darlene Campbell shares the story of how she and the other two principals of the academy, Josh Tucker and Sam Avery became a team and decided, despite have served the community at free events, to launch the school, inspired by Martin Luther King's words "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." By Darlene Campbell Nearly two years ago I received an email from my friend, Vonnie, about a free self-defense class being offered in Columbia. Little did I realize then that I was about to embark upon one of the greatest adventures of my life, that the instructors of that class and I were destined to become close friends, that we shared not only a love of martial arts, but a love of visual arts, literary arts and music. In the following year and a half we trained in kung fu, we practiced music, we sang at churches, the farmer's market, at Summit Manor and we did skits for anyone who would open their doors for us. We were modern troubadours. Yet,all the while, every Saturday for well over a year, we offered free self-defense classes. Our great desire was to be a blessing to our community. Art, including dramatic, literary and musical art, is about seeing the beauty around us, about translating what we see into a form that others can benefit from. It's about helping others see the hand of our Maker in the design of our lives. It's forever changing and never static, because it's always growing. It moves. It breathes. We would often talk about having a place where children could come and learn the arts as we knew them, expressions of beauty. We talked about a place where children could learn to paint and draw, to sing and play guitar, and of course, to learn kung fu. An idea was born and it nagged at us, until one day we said, "Let's do it." Because we had previously done all of our services for free, we had no budget, yet as Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." So we did it. We took the first step. Now that dream is about to become a reality. Of February 1, 2014, we plan to open our doors to the children of Adair and surrounding counties. We will have an open house from 2-4 p.m. on that day and we plan to launch a program we call G.R.A.C.E. (Green River Arts Creating Excellence). G.R.A.C.E. is an affordable and high quality afterschool program. Right now we offer voice lessons, guitar lessons, drawing lessons and painting lessons, and of course, the culprit that started it all, kung fu, an art of self-mastery. We long to instill a sense of worth and accomplishment and value in each student and to recognizes each one's individual talent. In the summer we will have public performances by both our music students and martial arts students. We will have art shows, hosted by our visual arts students. As the program grows, we hope to offer wellness classes and perhaps even host some writing workshops. We are reaching out into our community because we sincerely want to show children how art is relevant to the real world and because we want to make a positive impact on the world around us. Men don't light a candle and hide it under a bushel, but rather set it on a candle stand so that people can see its light. That's what we hope to do, help each student discover how to let their own unique lights shine brightly. - Darlene Campbell This story was posted on 2014-01-27 04:04:41
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