Youth Arts Day 2010

Sunday, 3/7/2010

Co-hosted by Students Offering Support and the Deering Estate at Cutler, Youth Arts Day & Music Fest is a community collaboration celebrating youth artists and creating awareness for the rich emerging resources Miami-Dade County has to offer. Youth Arts Day & Music Fest features a month long visual and literary art exhibition as well as a day long series of youth performance art on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Founding members of the Living Artist Concert Series and Artists in Residence will act as mentors available for portfolios reviews, exhibits and performances.

Children's activities include:  The Deering Estate's "Living Classroom" Eco-Programs, Face Painting, and an arts project. We invite community organizations serving our youth to get involved.

Youth visitors (Grades K-12) are given free admittance to the Estate. The cost for adults is $10.

Students Offering Support, Inc.:
Founded in 2008, Students Offering Support (S.O.S.) is a countywide, non-profit, youth community service organization. SOS’s mission is to introduce high school co-eds to the impact that they can have on their community as they themselves conduct the business each year of identifying community needs and creating a plan of fund raising and service that will assist in meeting those needs. Membership in SOS is an honor and members are selected based on their character, leadership and interest in community involvement. Our goal is to fulfill our mission while providing an enjoyable and fun means of uniting our community youth.

Proceeds from the special events co-hosted by SOS benefit the following organizations: Neat Stuff Helps Kids, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Children's Home Society, and the Breast Cancer Foundation.