MELE music program entertains for the vacations, collects toys for keiki

Honolulu Community College music college students mixed vacation performances, philanthropy and enjoyable for a closing class mission occasion that was loved by a crowd of greater than 100 attendees. The Music & Entertainment Learning Experience (MELE) program offered its annual MELE’s Kalikimaka in-person occasion on December 5, after a two-year absence because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Produced by the MELE 205 live performance and occasion manufacturing class, this yr’s MELE’s Kalikimaka featured performances by Hawaiʻii’s rising musical stars together with PK DREAMZ, Dominic Carlos, JULÉ and Backset, and a Polynesian dance exhibition from Mele Luau. The scholars deliberate and produced the occasion as an immersive closing mission and collaborated with MELE engineering college students for audio and tech assist.

“MELE’s real-world curriculum and initiatives helped me perceive varied profession alternatives within the music and leisure discipline,” mentioned Autumn Reynolds, a MELE 205 scholar. “I additionally made useful connections with my fellow college students, trade professionals and neighborhood organizations.”

MELE’s Kalikimaka partnered with Toys for Tots to gather vacation donations. The organizers acquired greater than 100 new toys for keiki.

Extra about MELE

The MELE program makes use of a complete music enterprise and manufacturing curriculum assembly the necessities for entry-level coaching of music trade and manufacturing professionals. The curriculum focuses on combining tutorial expertise with real-world functions to arrange college students to work within the quickly evolving international music trade of the twenty first century. This system core presents a rounded curriculum grounding college students within the fundamentals of the music trade, sound recording and the enterprise of music.

There are two diploma paths—the affiliate of science in music and leisure enterprise and the affiliate of science in audio engineering expertise. A level could also be earned throughout a four-semester sequence.