Arts Service Organization: SF Community Music Center

Online Choir Program Retains “Friendships, Solidarity and Community”

A screenshot of a choir instructor teaching vocal exercises.

Since March 2020, the CMC has developed several new ways to adapt their Older Adult Choir Program (OACP), which serves nearly 400 older adults in senior centers throughout San Francisco, to a successful online learning platform. To keep their dynamic choir communities connected during COVID-19, the center worked with their senior center partners to create remote instructional videos and zoom sessions.

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Older Adult Choir Instructional Videos from SFCMC

The San Francisco Community Music Center developed the Older Adult Choir Program to provide the many personal, social, artistic, and quality of life benefits that musical activity can bring to older adults. The program has grown as choirs have cycled out of the Community of Voices research study led by UCSF in partnership with CMC …

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