… A Sensory Celebration Concert for All! Experiencing live music lights up the entire brain and opens communication in ways that words alone cannot. In this interactive concert, Old Town … of Folk Music faculty create a multi-sensory experience carefully designed to calm, delight, and support children with sensitivities and special needs. Centered around the theme of growth, and performed by teaching artists …
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… Chicago (MIC) Academy is a nationally recognized pre-conservatory program for gifted pianists and string players. The program provides a comprehensive music education for students who aspire to be professional musicians. The Academy is a musical community of faculty, staff, and students who come together each Saturday, September through May, for an intensive 30-week … faculty, a rigorous chamber music component, a stimulating chamber orchestra experience, and accelerated music theory classes. Pianists additionally study keyboard history and …
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… Chicago (MIC) Academy is a nationally recognized pre-conservatory program for gifted pianists and string players. The program provides a comprehensive music education for students who aspire to be professional musicians. The Academy is a musical community of faculty, staff, and students who come together each Saturday, September through May, for an intensive 30-week … faculty, a rigorous chamber music component, a stimulating chamber orchestra experience, and accelerated music theory classes. Pianists additionally study keyboard history and …
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… Native to the Midwest, 'Red Bull' grows 88 inches tall and 48 inches wide, with its green leaves turning a striking orange, purple, and red in the fall. The purple flowers appear on the stems in the late summer and early fall. It grows best in full sun and moist, well-drained soil and enjoys the heat. It is …
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… Royal Beauty bearberry cotoneaster features coral-red fruits and glossy evergreen foliage. Members of the genus Cotoneaster are characterized by a stiff, dense branching structure, small, glossy leaves of fine texture, and abundant fruit in the form of small pomes, which are generally in shades of red/orange but may also be cream or black and may persist into winter. Generally unfussy about soil pH, cotoneasters are reliable and …
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… in nature. Through gentle teaching, you will be led in guided meditation, mindful walking, and reflective dialogue, using evidence-based mindfulness practices. Learn how to use breathing, walking, and everyday awareness to cultivate calm, reduce stress, and connect more deeply with yourself and the natural world. Leave with simple practices that you …
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… to just a few places - deep canyons in the Arizona dessert where it's protected from the sun and picks up moisture from small rivulets and streams. In the garden, it's a strong vertical accent in the shade border, and with its creeping rhizomes forms a good-sized clump in a year or two. There are over 25 …
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… combination. A small silvery colored Heuchera villosa hybrid with improved tolerance for heat and humidity. The silvery leaves are semi-glossy and mature with a slight rose tone. The flowers appear mid-summer on 24 inch pink scapes and are a delightful bright pink. The silver leaves and bright pink flowers make a delightful …
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… American clethra. While Einstein is famous for his brilliance, this plant salutes his prolific and unruly white hair with prolific fragrant white flowers spikes that appear at the height of summer and which attract butterflies and birds. The flower spikes reach up to 12 inches long and are the striking feature of the …
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… Native to the West Indies, coastal northern South America, and Panama, Barbados gooseberry is frequently grown as an ornamental or for its fruits in the American tropics, Bermuda, California, Hawaii, Israel, the Philippines, India, and Australia. A member of the cactus family, the plant does not fit the standard cactus mold. It is an erect woody shrub when young, which with age begins vining and climbing with spiny branches reaching 33 feet long. 'Godseffiana’, a cultivated variety …
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