Sejong Center Teams Up with Gippeumnanum Foundation to Support Youth Music and Arts Activities

Support for Music and Art Activities and Education for Culturally Marginalized Children

Sejong Center for the Performing Arts announced on the 17th that it has signed an institutional business partnership agreement with the Gippeumnanum Foundation to support music and arts activities for culturally marginalized children.

(From left) Seok Yoseop, Executive Director of the Joy Sharing Foundation, Ahn Hosang, President of Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. [Photo by Sejong Center for the Performing Arts]

This agreement was made with the purpose of mutual cooperation with the Gippeumnanum Foundation, an organization affiliated with the Catholic Korean Jesuit Order, to revitalize music and arts activities for culturally marginalized children and youth.

Sejong Center for the Performing Arts has been operating the "Sejong Dream Tree Orchestra" for over 10 years as a social contribution project. This project is recognized as a successful case sustained for more than a decade, helping children's growth and transformation through the value of music. It focuses on supporting orchestra education by providing free instrument rentals, professional instructor guidance, regular practice sessions, and concerts every year to children and youth from marginalized groups in social welfare blind spots.

Thanks to the continuous efforts of Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, the Sejong Dream Tree Orchestra has produced 1,066 orchestra members over 12 years (2010?2022), many of whom have grown into professional performers. Additionally, voluntary sponsorships and donations from individuals and companies participating in this project, as well as talent donations from artists, continue to be made.

Sejong Center for the Performing Arts plans to support equitable music education for children and youth who wish to learn instruments in the future, starting with instrument rentals and teaching methods for the children belonging to 'Kkum Namu Maeul' located in Eunpyeong-gu, entrusted by the Gippeumnanum Foundation, marking their first steps in classical performance.

Sejong Center President Ahn Hosang said, “Through this agreement, we will support children in dreaming of a bright future through music and opening a new world through the language of music, even if just a little.”