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Paul Hall
- The Juilliard School, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Program information:
Join us on Sunday, February 18 at 7pm in Paul Hall for a screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary short film The Last Repair Shop, directed by Kris Bowers (BM ’10, MM ’12, jazz studies) and Ben Proudfoot. The screening will be followed by an Arts and Society Series talk with Bowers, moderated by President Damian Woetzel, about the making of the film and music education in America.
About The Last Repair Shop
While providing free and freely repaired instruments to children in the public schools was once commonplace in the United States, today Los Angeles, which has provided this service continuously since 1959, is by far the largest and one of the last American cities to do so.
From Academy Award-nominated directing duo Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, The Last Repair Shop grants an all-access pass to the nondescript downtown warehouse where a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople keep more than 80,000 student instruments in good repair.
Witness the profound life stories of four staff master craftspeople as well as the students whose lives have been transformed by their instrument. In these stories, music has been the continuous thread that has mended their hearts and brought them to where they are now—fixing broken instruments to get them back into the longing hands of Los Angeles’ public school youth.
Juilliard’s creative enterprise programming, including the Creative Associates program, is generously supported by Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation.
