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NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NEMPAC)
The North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is a 501(c)(3) community music school and a professional performing arts center with a strong focus on serving the North End, Charlestown and surrounding neighborhoods of the City of Boston by making quality music and arts programming accessible for all. #MusicForAll

As a music school, NEMPAC reaches over a thousand students per week, offering music education programs across several art disciplines including dance, movement, and theatre. As a highly-respected performing arts center, NEMPAC presents public concerts and professional performance projects each year involving hundreds of local Boston artists. NEMPAC believes we are all musicians and performers and prepares individuals to be the best version of themselves through music education programs and transformative artistic experiences.

HISTORY
NEMPAC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2001 by a group of five local mothers who were seeking arts enrichment programming for their children. These mothers began the organization out of their own homes and used community spaces in the neighborhood to offer private piano lessons. As NEMPAC grew, its Board of Directors sought a physical home and began to work with the City of Boston and the office of Mayor Thomas Menino to acquire and renovate an abandon 590 square foot 1920’s washhouse in the heart of the North End.

The building had been abandoned since 1968. City Councilor Paul Scapicchio called it a "disgusting building, old and decrepit" (Boston Globe, 12/3/00). Located along the freedom Trail in the Paul Revere Mall (known as the Prado), it stands between the Old North Church and Cyrus Dallin's statue of Paul Revere.

With headquarters to house administrative offices and four private studios, NEMPAC truly began to flourish. As a music school, NEMPAC reaches approximately 1,355 students per week, offering programs across several art disciplines including dance, movement, and theatre, with a focus on music education. Through partnerships with local schools in the North End and surrounding neighborhoods, students receive free, in-school music education.

As a highly-respected performing arts center, NEMPAC presents public concerts and professional performance projects each year involving hundreds of local Boston artists. Many of these programs are free to the public throughout the year including our Summer Concert Series on the Greenway Parks in the North End, North End Library Music Concert Series, and our annual Messiah Concert in partnership with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. These programs provide:


 * 1) Affordable, high-quality live artistic performance of music or theatre to both residents and city visitors
 * 2) Opportunities for New England-based professional musicians, singers, creative directors and production designers to work in the Boston area
 * 3) An environment that welcomes young performing artists from local Boston Conservatories or Schools to gain professional experience in the Arts. (NEMPAC’s educational faculty members and students are often featured in these professional performances, as well.)

LOCATION(S)
Thanks to the George Robert White Fund,  NEMPAC operates out of a main studio building located off the Freedom Trail on the Prado, at the Paul Revere Mall in Boston's North End. The Paul Revere Mall is at the cross streets of Hanover St. and Clark St. (across from St. Stephen’s Church and next to the Boston Fire Department Engine 8 Ladder 1).

In addition, they also run programming in several other spaces in the North End of Boston and in Charlestown, including including the 9 Hull Street (Old North End Visitors Center), Improv Asylum, St. Leonard's Church Parish Hall, Lincoln Wharf Community Room, North End Yoga, Warren Prescott School, Harvard-Kent Elementary School, Good Shepherd School, and Charlestown Working Theater.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

 * Private and group music instruction to all ages and abilities in a variety of instruments including piano, voice, guitar, violin, trumpet, saxophone, drums, clarinet, flute, and more;
 * "In-house" 10-week after-school class sessions in yoga to music, dance, and group music classes;
 * Early childhood music & movement offerings to foster the love of music and build community with our younger families;
 * Free in-school music education programs with our school partners including the Eliot Lower and Upper School (North End), The St. John School (North End), and the Good Shepherd School (Charlestown)
 * Children’s Music Theatre Troupe performance-based program which produces two annual youth productions at the Charlestown Working Theater (fall) and the Improv Asylum (spring)
 * Satellite after-school music programming on-site at local school partners including Eliot Upper and Lower Schools, St. John School, Warren Prescott K-8 School, Harvard-Kent Elementary School, Good Shepherd School
 * Youth summer program offerings including week-long, full day workshops in music theatre, dance, and 'meet the instruments'!

PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING

 * A Professional Musicians Series of Concerts featuring members of our Faculty as well as local, professional musicians, artists, and ensembles.
 * Annual student music recitals and special performances at local community events
 * Annual NEMPAC Opera Project at The Great Hall at Faneuil Hall in Boston
 * Annual Holiday Concert, Handel's Messiah Part I
 * Jazz in the Park, a free Summer Concert Series taking place at the Greenway North End Parks every Tuesday in July

NON-PROFIT
NEMPAC is classified as a public charity under section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and is exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Code. All contributions to NEMPAC are acknowledged in writing. Tax ID is 04-3545228.

NEMPAC programming supported by the Boston Cultural Council (BCC). The Boston Cultural Council works under the umbrella of the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. Every year, BCC distributes funds from the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Cultural Council in the form of Boston Cultural Council Organizational Grants. These funds support innovative arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences programming. The goal is to enhance the quality of life in the City of Boston.

www.nempacboston.org