{"id":8368,"date":"2015-07-15T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:01:05","slug":"mira-program-partnership-with-noise-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/mira-program-partnership-with-noise-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC partners with local rock camp to provide instruments to local kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rhythm of summer activity on the St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus was punctuated by the NoiseMakers<\/a>, a local rock camp that toured St. Petersburg College’s Music Industry Recording Arts (MIRA) program last week.<\/p>\n

Dr. Patrick Hernly, Academic Chair of the college’s MIRA program and the staff at NoiseMakers have formed a unique partnership that resulted in St. Petersburg College writing a grant from the Fender Music Foundation to supply instruments for the NoiseMakers\u2019 nonprofit partner \u2013 Operation Co-Exist.<\/p>\n

Learn more about SPC’s MIRA program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NoiseMakers and Operation Co-Exist impacting the community<\/h5>\n

\"IMG_2049\"<\/a>NoiseMakers is no ordinary music school.\u00a0 Partnering with musicians and offering music lessons to the community, it is located on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.\u00a0 It also houses Operation Co-Exist<\/a> \u2013 a nonprofit organization that strives to improve the quality of life through the healing powers of music.\u00a0 They are specifically engaged in working with at-risk youth, which includes youth in the foster care system.<\/p>\n

NoiseMakers tours MIRA and St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus<\/h5>\n

\"IMG_2050\"<\/a>Four staff and 17 students toured the MIRA facility and St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus.\u00a0 Students received a mini seminar in the recording studio by faculty member Dave Greenberg who wowed the students with a demonstration of recording software.\u00a0 After the tour, the students were presented with string instruments provided by the Fender grant.\u00a0 The tour culminated with a jam session in the recording studio. Students were awed by the campus and the facilities.<\/p>\n

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The rhythm of summer activity on the St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus was punctuated by the NoiseMakers, a local rock camp that toured St. Petersburg College’s Music Industry Recording Arts (MIRA) program last week. Dr. Patrick Hernly, Academic Chair of the college’s MIRA program and the staff at NoiseMakers have formed a unique partnership that resulted in … Continue reading SPC partners with local rock camp to provide instruments to local kids<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13381,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/13381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}