From This Moment On: Celebrating the Launch of the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs
October 16, 2017
The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs celebrated its launch with a cocktail reception on September 28, 2017. The evening's program included brief remarks; a conversation with Berklee alumnus Delfeayo Marsalis and Rhoda Bernard, the institute's managing director; a reading of "As Song," a poem written for the occasion by Judson Evans, a professor in the Liberal Arts Department; and a toast to the new institute.
Special guests included:
- Delfeayo Marsalis B.M. '89, trombonist and music producer
- Mboya Marsalis, Delfeayo's brother who has autism
- Matt Savage B.M. '12, pianist and composer who has autism
- Adam Walden, Berklee student, cellist who has autism
- Julie Burros, chief of arts and culture, Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Office of Arts and Culture
- Kristen McCosh, disability commissioner for the city of Boston
Watch Rhoda Bernard, managing director of the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs, speak at the launch: