NoMore Violence Week – Building Hope and Resilience in Violence Prevention: Partnering with the Arts

Join Alyssa Roggow and members of the acclaimed Cascade Quartet and Chinook Winds for an evening of music, socializing and engagement in a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) experience. Violist Alyssa Roggow uses visual art, music, literature, conversation and reflection to explore how we see, hear and understand our own experiences and feelings. This will be a beautiful experience for providers, parents, adolescents and community members. 

Alyssa Roggow is a classical musician, writer, and multifaceted educator. As a certified Master Naturalist and a trained VTS facilitator, she can often be found incorporating her passions for the arts and the outdoors into interdisciplinary workshops for learners of all ages in venues such as Glacier National Park, Sculpture in the Wild, and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art. Her writing has been published in the Montana Naturalist magazine, on Montana Public Radio, and as the text of a song cycle by composer Grant Harville. Alyssa is a violist and avid chamber musician, and performs throughout the U.S. Prior to setting out on her own career path, she earned a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and was principal violist of the Cascade String Quartet and Great Falls Symphony for five years.

This event will host a social time with hors d’oeuvres from 5:30-6:00 and music performed by members of the Cascade Quartet and Chinook Winds, followed by the VTS experience beginning at 6:00pm. This concert is funded in part by the Montana Arts Council, an agency of the State Government, and the National Endowment for the Arts.