The LayFlats Arts & Music Festival was created to support local arts charities and organizations.
Our purpose is generate increased community and cultural awareness as well as continued development and funding for local arts based charitable organizations. Our primary goal for this event is to provide local arts charities another way to raise money to ensure that they are able to continue their charitable contributions, support and outreadch to the local community. Far to many groups fail to succeed due to lack of funding and it is our sincerest hope is to help make sure that these groups continue to thrive.
With the support of so many talented artists, bands and musicians as well as local business owners and arts groups we are proud to bring you the Annual outdoor LayFlats Arts and Music Festival and look forward to continued success for many years to come.
The Jessie Levering
CARY HOME FOR CHILDREN
http://www.tippecanoe.in.gov/chfc
"Helping Shape the Future of Our Youth"
Expression through Art Program
The Expression through Art Program was originally funded by a grant from The Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette, awarded on March 26, 2007. Youth in residential treatment at Cary Home learn to express their emotions in more positive ways through artistic expression. Local artists provide art lessons to the boys under the therapeutic supervision of Cary Home staff to maximize the opportunity for learning new and productive ways of self expression.
The LayFlats Arts & Music Festival is proud to support this local art outreach and therapy program that promotes a positive message of youthful expression in our local community. It is our sincerest hope that our continued support of Cary Home will encourage a lifelong interest and mutual respect for artistic and musical expression.
Cary Home for Children
1530 South 18th street
Lafayette, IN 47905
Executive Director: Jason Kniola
765-474-4616
765-477-7806
Email Address
FIDDLERS GATHERING YOUTH OUTREACH
The future of any art form is always dependent on the next generation. This is especially true for traditional music. The Indiana Fiddler’s Gathering has developed several programs to take an active role in nurturing youth's enthusiasm for the music.
School Outreach Programs: This successful interactive program has brought traditional music to over 7,000 elementary school children over the past 15 years throughout the region.
The Wilbur Ade Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a young Indiana traditional musician ages 8-17. The scholarship pays all expenses at the prestigious Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in Nashville, Tennessee.
http://www.indianafiddlersgathering.org
EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY
Each year in Lafayette, hundreds of boys and girls from low-income families enter school for the first time. While their more fortunate classmates might face the challenge with assurance, these low-income children often begin school with health problems, and a lack of self confidence. Without the will to learn and grow, they often fall behind in their first years of education and find their troubles compounded in later years.
In order to give these children a chance to succeed, The Community and Family Resource Center operates Lafayette's one and only Head Start/Early Head Start Center, providing whole family services to low-income families in the Greater Lafayette area. Head Start gives the preschool-aged children of these families the support to meet their emotional, social, educational, health and nutritional needs. At the same time, Head Start also supports the people who have the biggest impact on these children, their parents, by showing them the way to become true advocates for their children's development.
For families with infants to three-year-olds, The Community and Family Resource Center also offers Early Head Start and a Pregnant Mom's Program in collaboration with the Tippecanoe County Child Care agency.
Pam Houlton, Program Director
(765) 449-0487
phoulton@cfrc.org
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