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Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative
The Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative was founded to preserve and support the unique qualities found in rural education, arts and culture. The group implements projects based on innovative community engagement practices that can build alternative and effective modes of communication for diverse populations and celebrates the rich cultural assets found in rural communities.
In addition to artist-in-residence workshops with youth, the group facilitates the Applied Rural Arts Program in which creative-based classes are offered to high school students in Yuma County. The goal of these courses is to re-imagine our hometowns as laboratories, a place where farmers become our teachers and rural main streets become our classrooms.
APPLIED RURAL ARTS PROGRAMS
Visit our website: www.appliedruralarts.org
2017: Rural Musicology — click here for the videos
2017 - 2019: The Prairie Writer's Workshop
A journalistic creative writing program designed by The Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative working in partnership with the Liberty School District, Gregory Hill and the Yuma Pioneer newspaper in Yuma County Colorado and beyond!
2020 - 2021: Prairie Sea Projects
Creative Writing workshop at Yuma High School with author Gregory Hill.
Liberty High School Students tour The Yuma Pioneer's (local newspaper) printing press.
Creative Writing workshop at Yuma High School with author Gregory Hill.