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Michigan Youth Arts Festival

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Dates
  
18 May – 20 May 2017

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Location
  
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Profiles

2015 michigan youth arts festival film video workshop


The Michigan Youth Arts Festival (MYAF) is an annual festival in Michigan where over 900 students from grades 9-12 participate in showcases, concerts and workshops in any of the represented disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Film, Vocal music, Instrumental Music, visual art and theatre.

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History

The Michigan Youth Arts Festival was founded in 1963 as a talent screening of young musicians organized by Dr. Joseph E. Maddy, founder of the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

MYAF Today

Today MYAF is the culmination of several separate adjudication processes that selects approximately 900 students from over 60,000 students that apply. It has been held at Western Michigan University since 1985.

References

Michigan Youth Arts Festival Wikipedia