Long Beach Post: Chief McDonnell Meets With Arts Leaders

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Chief McDonnell Meets With Arts Leaders

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10:25am | Arts leaders met with Long Beach Chief of Police Jim McDonnell at the Long Beach Museum of Art last week, where he spoke about the challenges and opportunities that face the City, and affirmed his belief that programs working with at risk youth can make a significant impact in crime reduction.

The meeting, co-sponsored by the Arts Council for Long Beach, also provided arts leaders with the opportunity

to speak about the youth-related programs they currently have in place, many of which are compiled in the Arts and Cultural Learning Directory.

Related Stories: Museum of Art, LBMA, Jim McDonnell, Chief of Police, Arts Council, ACLB

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Angel
Yes, I could not agree more with our new Police Chief. Speaking as a professional educator with 25 of experience in working with young people, it is absolutely imperative that programs working with at-risk youth as well as all community youth can make a significant long term impact on crime reduction. We need to establish and increase co-sponsorships by such leaders such as on the Arts Council members in Long Beach to provide more opportunity for youth-related academy arts training programs.

Sam
Great! Let's get some art programs going for at-risk youth so they have alternatives to joining gangs. Let the community know how we can help.

Sander
Check out the Directory, linked in the story, for volunteer opportunities. Also, check out the next article, an interview with Kelly Curry, who is starting a great summer program at Bixby Park.

Sander lives with his wife, step-daughter, dogs, and cats. He's an avid photographer, and enjoys creating close-up images of flowers and plants, and capturing urban landscapes. He's been involved in music production since the early 80's, and worked professionally as an audio engineer, live sound mixer, and producer.

Sander Roscoe Wolff is a musician, artist, and was co-founder and Executive Director of LongBeachCulture.org, the City's first comprehensive, and free, arts calendar and registry.

He has served on the boards of the 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space and the East Village Arts District, curated a 6 month gallery exhibition in the Long Beach World Trade Center, and produced Songs For Bethune, a CD of original and traditional holiday songs by local artists, to raise funds for the Arts Council's Passport to the Arts program.

His work has been featured in local gallery exhibitions, in SoundWalk, and L.A. Siggraph's Photon Ballet.

His current music project is Ain Soph Aur, a systems based improvisational performance duo and studio team.