Belmont House of Living Culture
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Educator/Musician/Community Organizer |
| Location | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | This is a parent run cooperative. More bios to come. This is Estela Knott's (the founders) info. After studying social work and child development in college, Estela worked for many years in the non-profit sector in the fields of prevention, group facilitation, and program development. Estela fell in love with working with preschool aged children while working at Blue Sky Day School in Berkeley, CA. In all of these endeavors, she strove to weave into her work a passion for music, dance and creativity with a strong message of self-reliance and critical thinking. That experience, combined with her career as a musician, performer and world traveler, has led her to the belief that the most powerful way to impact the future is through working with children from the time that they are very young, helping them to reach the widest horizons of creative possibility right from the beginnings of their life. That is why she engaged in building Blue Ridge Music Together into a community wide program, and why she created BHLC: to cultivate a truly inspired and unique opportunity for children to experience the world fully through music, language, nature, food and cultural exchanges. |
| Interests | Our goal is simple: To provide children with a creative, natural and healthy play environment that instills a life long love of learning about our world through music, language, food and cultural experiences. |
| Favorite music | Estela Knott has been performing for over 29 years as a vocalist, songwriter, musician and dancer in the United States, Latin America and Europe. As a child and youth, she studied classical, modern and regional folk music and dance and as an adult has studied, recorded and taught various styles of music from her travels in Mexico, Peru, other parts of Latin America and the U.S.. You can catch Estela performing now and then with her group Lua, which plays a fusion of latin folk styles. |