The School of Bardic Arts cultivates creativity, curiosity, and cultural connection through storytelling, music, folklore, and creative expression, providing educational programs, artistic collaborations, and community-based cultural experiences for learners of all ages.
The School of Bardic Arts is organized for educational and charitable purposes: advancing arts education, cultural preservation, storytelling, music, folklore, and community arts programming throughout Oregon, beginning in the Rogue Valley.
Our work grows from years of community-based artistic practice in the Rogue Valley and around the country, organized today into three connected programs.
Six-week residencies that bring music, storytelling, and folk traditions into K–3rd grade classrooms through singing, clapping, rhythm, and hands-on arts projects.
A place for adults to study the storyteller’s crafts: community story-and-song evenings open to all, and a nine-month apprenticeship in personal history and myth, ancient music theory, and traditional song.
A multi-year series of collaborative community arts projects in music, storytelling, and performance, made in partnership with local arts and community groups.
Whether you're a school, a funder, a community partner, or a curious learner, we'd love to hear from you.
Interested in bringing Songbirds to your school, joining the Bardic Fellowship, or partnering with us on a community project? Reach out using the details here, and we'll get back to you soon.