I am writing this on the day the Scouts were supposed to be returning from 10 days in Austria... Heading into week four of THE GREAT DIVIDE, I thought I might take a moment to reflect upon what nearly a month of virtual arts education, training, and play looks like. Well...it has been unique: frustrating, innovative, inspiring, hilarious and strange. While classroom teachers and directors have been scrambling to try to keep their classrooms on task, music and theater educator

Opera America, the National service organization for opera hosted its annual conference in San Francisco this year, and for the first time teens from around the country converged to participate! Earlier this month five Opera Teens came to San Francisco from Miami, Portland (Maine), Los Angeles, and D.C. and were met by eight of our own Opera Scouts who served as hosts for the conference. The Teens and Scouts attended sessions on Examining Traditions, Exploring Business Innov