A couple a few months ago
when you were promoting the Connecticut,

I would say Arts League,
but I don't think that's right.

I was completely I was completely arts
for learning in Connecticut.

Arts for learning
is A501 C3 nonprofit organization.

Been around over 40 years,
and the mission is to bring

the various avenues of the arts
to schools and school children.

kind of model of school,
you know, gives them a chance to explore,

communication skills, strategic
thinking in a different way.

Net benefits to introducing the arts
and the freedom to explore, right.

And get out and do something that you
could be a little bit more creative and,

you know, meet different people
with sort of the same thing.

It's it's funny when you're saying about
get out and explore.

I've done a lot of jobs for high schools
that have ag departments,

and you talk to these kids
about why they did AG.

Some of them were like, oh,
because I want to,

you know, be a veterinarian
or I want to work on a farmer.

But that was actually
that was not the majority of the majority

was like, well, I just
I just like getting out.

This is something different,
you know, doing different things.

I'm working with my hands,
like working with my hands, you know.

it was just because it was a different
it was a different thing.

And you think differently
and you do different things. Yeah.

So that's kind of similar to like the,
you know, the arts

get kids out there just out there
have to be a talented artist

to enjoy the time
and exposure to thinking creatively.

Differently yourself, problem
solving. Yeah.

You know,
there's all kinds of net benefits.

So do you have like because I saw there's
a bunch of like volunteers

or I don't know
if their volunteers are paid or whatever,

but they go into the schools
and then they some are like singers

and then there's artists
and there's different musicians.

And then these like workshops
that are held.

Is it a regular thing?
How does that all work? Right.

wow, various artists
in all disciplines of the arts.

So it could be dancing,
could be singing, could be

And we work with schools or school systems

to work cohesively with their curriculum
so that we drop in things

that are appropriate, that align
with what they're, you know,

trying to have students learn 
and then jump

in a program that complements
those things in a more creative manner.

Did you just public schools, private,
all schools.

And what is
what are sermons to be like the area

where you get the most business, I guess,

or does it is that the concentrations
on the, on the highways.

in those cities along the main routes
rather than the rural area.

We'd love to do more work, sure,
but sure, everyone's impacted by budget.

And yeah, budgets been affected
enormously in the last 12 months.

You feel more urban areas
then as opposed to.

You know, it's a matter of those schools.

Usually the urban centers have larger
population

standing school, whereas in a area
it might have like a school

that serves 5 or 6 pounds
and becomes a different equation.

I know I don't remember
when I was going to school

if there was anything like that,
but we had, you know,

we had really good arts
programs, orchestra and fine

arts, painting and such and Montclair
and all that kind of stuff.

And but we also had like
home and we had, you know,

take it and would shop,
I think would shop was required.

I think woodshop was anyway,
so but over the years,

I think a lot of those things have gone
away.

I know, like the home
and the which has, has have you

you felt that like the reason they're here
is because maybe a lot of arts

I think that that's starting
to be part of the equation,

you know, back in time, I, you know,
I also took woodshop.

Yeah, like the craziest looking birdhouse.

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