Brooklyn Youth Arts and Justice provides student musicians with unique volunteer opportunities to perform in concerts, socially engage in their communities, and learn to make a difference together.
When students volunteer for a concert with Brooklyn Youth Arts & Justice, they are empowered to choose which concert best represents their unique contribution to social justice and to their communities.
Lively Student-Led Concerts
We empower students to choose the project they want to be a part of, either as performer or volunteer staff. We bring performances to diverse audiences, creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, and celebration.
Education through Workshops & Concert Outings
We explore the intersections of music, history, and social justice through workshops, educational visits, and guest speakers.
Reviving Hidden Voices
We perform works by BIPOC and/or female composers whose contributions have been overlooked or erased.
Music Workshops
We explore the intersections of music, history, and social justice through workshops, educational visits, and guest speakers.
Raising Funds for Local Advocacy
We provide financial support to local organizations such
as food banks, migrant shelters, literacy programs, and LGBTQ+ teen homelessness support organizations.
Ready to join? Learn about what a membership at BYAJ looks like, and if this is right for you.
Born from a vision of inclusion and empowerment, our nonprofit began with a simple yet revolutionary idea: to use music as a bridge between the past and the future, justice and art, silence and sound. BYAJ aims to offer students the opportunity to see themselves in the music they create.
Through collaboration, activism, and reflection, our students' performances evolve into a dynamic space of self-expression and justice. By centering historically marginalized voices and empowering young creators, we are looking to build a movement which activates the next generation of student musicians.
Ruth brings 25+ years of experience to BYAJ, both as a freelance performance artist and a private teacher and chamber coach. Leaving behind OperaTampa, Eckerd College, The Pinellas County School for the Arts at Gibbs High School, and a large private studio, she relocated to NYC in 2014.
Here she continues her work partnering with students and families in discovering and developing their unique gifts so that they are empowered to create change in our world.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about our memberships, please get in touch.
