As you can imagine, Renovare's activities have been profoundly disrupted by the coronavirus. Between facility closures and stay at home orders, basically everything we used to do is presently impossible.
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I can’t believe it’s already the end of the year, and it’s even harder to grasp that this marks the beginning of a new decade! Where did the last ten years go?!
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2019 has been a big year for Renovare. We hope you enjoy this quick update on our work, and that you have a very Merry Christmas!
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“Advent holds space for our grief, and it reminds us that all of us, in one way or another, are not only wounded by the evil in the world but are also wielders of it, contributing our own moments of unkindness or impatience or selfishness.”
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I am thankful for the many seeds planted in my life to show me not only that my voice matters, but that it was created to matter, and can impact the world for the better.
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Renovare Music has established a secure portal for online donations! You can now make a one time or monthly gift in support of our work directly through our support page.
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What a week! Between May 8th and 11th Renovare performed The Hope that Unites Us: Stories from the Streets in three venues around Cleveland for enthusiastic audiences. We couldn’t have asked for a better response!
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“I was on the verge of graduating from high school, and then everything went downhill. My mom was working but it wasn’t enough to pay the rent, and I wasn’t able to help much because of school. So, I became homeless at 16, and the whole family got split up.”
How does one become homeless?
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A few weeks ago Renovare played for a Diabetes Support Group at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in downtown Cleveland. I confess - I had no idea what such a group was about. A quick Google search informed me that as time goes on diabetes becomes as much an intellectual and emotional battle as a physical one. Eager to understand further, I arrived early to sit in on their meeting before our performance.
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Welcome to our new website!
We are so glad you’re here. We hope this will be a helpful place for learning more about Renovare and connecting with us.
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Unlike most quartets that form when four individuals start playing together, Renovare is forming around a vision that we are eager to bring to fruition. We’re still reviewing applications to round out the quartet’s membership, and have started performing as a duo in the meantime.
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Merry Christmas (Day 5) and almost Happy New Year! We hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season. Before the calendar turns to January we wanted to give a few quick updates on what has been going on with Renovare.
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Last Wednesday I played for about 75 residents in a cinder block “chapel” filled with plastic chairs at the Grafton Correctional Institution, a medium security prison nearby. After playing a movement of Gaspar Cassadó’s Suite for Solo Cello, one of them remarked that it reminded him of a scene from Much Ado About Nothing. I don’t know what your stereotypes of people in prison may be, but this response certainly challenged mine!
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