Happy New Year 2016!
Yes, we’ve been in a quiet time 2015 was a sabbath year of quietness, rest, and prayer for RYO. Our youth leaders graduated from college, tried diligently to secure sustaining funding, completed their community service as VISTA volunteers, and ended up going on to paying jobs in various communities that took them away from youth work. At around the same time, the City School District decided against allowing community groups like RYO to talk about and advertise their after-school programs within the schools, seriously limiting fall recruitment of new student participants. The present...
Read MoreIndiefest 2013
Rochester Youth Outreach hosted its first collaborative TWISY (The World Is Still Young) all-ages music event at the Vineyard Community Space on South Clinton Avenue this past Saturday, October 25th, as part of the city-wide Indiefest. Our youth lined up and showcased 6 different young bands, including 2 of their own, and entertained over 85 participants through the evening. From organizing, to setting up, to performing and taking down, the whole event was a great...
Read MoreTWISY Event Rocks!
RYO hosted another wonderfully successful youth-led and run all-ages TWISY music Event this Friday night at their space on Warwick Ave. The weather was perfect and all the preparations were in place when the first guests started arriving at 4. By suppertime, the space was packed with people, young and old, enjoying the live music, refreshments, and wholesome social atmosphere. By 8 pm as the sun was going down, it all wrapped up. Thanks to all who poured themselves into creating such a great evening for all of us! Let’s hope and pray that this is just the start of what will prove to be...
Read MoreIndiegogo Campaign
Hello friends! There are only 3 days left in the RYO Indiegogo Campaign! Check out the video here to find out what we’re about, and then please help if you can. Any money we raise will go a long way towards our mission of empowering Rochester’s young people through music and the arts. Thank you to all those who have invested so far! For our Rochester friends, be sure to check out our next event, No Clouds Included, this Friday, August 23rd, at 265 Warwick Ave from 4pm – 8pm. Come enjoy music from BC Likes You, The Tarrants, and Disharmony. Our youth leaders have been hard at work...
Read MoreGarage Sale
Rochester Youth Outreach will be participating in a community garage sale at the Public Market (280 N. Union St.) on Sunday, June 30th from 8 am to 2 pm. All profits made from sales will go toward supporting RYO programming. We are in need of donations of any goods which could be sold including clothes, books, appliances, furniture, etc. Please bring any of these items to His Branches by June 29th, and the RYO youth and adult team will transport and sell them at the Market. Thanks!
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