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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(56, 147, 207);"><b><font size="5">Young Audiences of Louisiana hosts live painting fundraiser: YALA Art Live
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><i>NEW ORLEANS, LA, March 21, 2025</i> –Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is holding its fifth annual </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">YALA Art
Live </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">fundraiser. YALA Art Live centers around a unique type of visual performance art: live painting. Watch art
students from Young Audiences Charter Schools, Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts, and West Jefferson
High School pair up with professional New Orleans artists Ceaux, Alison Cline, Emre Karaoglu, and Heather
Mattingly. </span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">Art lovers of all ages are welcome to join the festivities, scheduled to take place on <b>Saturday, April 5
from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at </b></span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);"><b>Urban South Brewery</b></span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><b>, 1645 Tchoupitoulas Street. </b>The local brewery has graciously
committed to supporting YALA’s arts in education programming, by donating a portion of every pint sold during
the free community event. The festivities will include the Urban Smash Food Truck, Kendra Scott Pop-up, Kids
Art Table, a DJ, face painter, a raffle, and a Baby ArtsPlay! workshop demo at 2pm
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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><font size="3" style="background-color:inherit;">“YALA Art Live creates a reciprocal relationship wherein students are able to interact with our broader community
through the arts, and the community becomes aware of the talent and potential that exists in our New Orleans
youth,” said Jenny James, Executive Director of YALA.
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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><font size="3" style="background-color:inherit;">“We strive to help students realize the many opportunities that arts education affords them. Pairing them up with
a professional artist shows them they have the tools to work with an artist of that caliber, and gives them the
confidence to know that art is an option for the future, whether they want to practice professionally or as a
hobby.”
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">Paintings created at the event will be auctioned at YALA’s Winter fundraiser, YALA Fa La La to support YALA's
</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">early learning </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">and </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">afterschool </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">arts education programs. YALA’s afterschool programs currently operate at ten
locations across the Greater New Orleans Area. The programs combine academics, arts and culture in order to
develop students intellectually and socially.
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">Sponsors for the event include </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">First Horizon Bank</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">, </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">Krewe of Rolling Elvi</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">, Marguerite Moisio, and </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">McCormick</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">. This
is the fifth time the event will be held at Urban South Brewery. Urban South Brewery Taproom Event Manager,
Jen Bordenave said partnering with YALA for the event was a “no-brainer.”
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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><font size="3" style="background-color:inherit;">“At Urban South we support the community at every chance we can,” Bordenave said. “It will be amazing to
witness the collaboration between the artists and the children. I'm also excited to see the art and how it all
comes together.”
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">For more information on YALA Art Live and the arts education programs it will help fund, visit
</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">www.ya4la.org/artlive</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">. You can also follow YALA on </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">Facebook </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">and </span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);">Instagram</span><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;">.
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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><i><font size="3">About Young Audiences of Louisiana
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<p><span style="font-family:AvenirLTPro;"><font size="3" style="background-color:inherit;">Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the
state of Louisiana. Founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms, YALA has adapted and
evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state through our mission of “inspiring,
empowering, and uniting children and communities through education, arts, and culture.” YALA offers a
comprehensive and creative approach to educating young minds. Fortified with years of experience, YALA draws
upon New Orleans’s strong arts culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art.
Through school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs and community
workshops YALA not only impacts the children of New Orleans, but makes intentional contact with the influential
adults in their lives.
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