Complete List of Sarasa's Outreach Concerts & Residencies

Dedicated to making music accessible to wider audiences

(last updated February 16, 2010)

2010

"Time I Wish I Had": song written by residents of Westboro Secure Treatment during a Sarasa residency (May)
Metro Pretrial Detention (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (Jan)
Elliot Boys Detention (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (Jan)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (3-week residency in January) Read letters from residents

2009

Butler Center (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (3 visit residency in October)
RFK South Hadley Girls Program (lock up facility for girls) South Hadley, MA (Oct)
Worcester Secure, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (3-visit residency in June)
Westboro Secure Treatment, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (3-visit residency in May)
Terry Thomas, (lock up facility for teenage girls) Springfield MA (May)
Metro Revocation, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (April) with New England Conservatory Opera Student performances

2008

Elliot Boys Detention (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (December) with New England Conservatory Opera Student performances
Brookhaven (Retirement community) Lexington, MA (October)
RFK South Hadley Girls Program (lock up facility for girls) South Hadley, MA (October)
Robert F. Kennedy Action Core- Experiment With Travel (EWT) (school for teenage boys) Holyoke, MA (October)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (3-week residency in October)
Butler Center (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (3-visit residency in August)
Robert Kennedy School, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (3-visit residency in August)
Metro Assessment Unit, (teenage male delinquent lock up) Dorchester MA (May) with New England Conservatory Opera Student performances
Metro Revocation, (lock up facility for boys) Dorchester, MA (April)
Westboro Secure Treatment, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (three-visit residency in February)
Rotenberg School, (lock-up facility for girls) Westboro, MA (February)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (February)

2007

Metro Pretrial Detention (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (November)
Elliot Boys Detention (lock up facility for teenage boys) Dorchester MA (November)
Spectrum Girls Detention and Spectrum Girls Treatment (teenage delinquent lockups), Dorchester MA (three-visit residency with combined units in November)
Somerville Transition Shelter (two visits in teenage male delinquent lockup), Somerville MA (Octover)
Worcester Secure, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (three-visit residency in October)
Robert Kennedy School, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (three-visit residency in May)
Spectrum Boys Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA (May)
Metro Assessment Unit, (teenage male delinquent lock up) Dorchester MA (May)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA (February)

2006

Rotenberg School, (lock-up facility for girls) North Chelmsford, MA (three-visit residency in December 2006-January 2007)
Camp Amesbury, (lock-up facility for girls) Amesbury, MA (November)
Eliot Hillside Shelter Care, (lock-up facility for teenage boys) Roxbury, MA (October)
Robert Kennedy School, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (three-visit residency in September) [letters]
Worcester Secure Unit, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (September) [letters]
Robert Kennedy School, (lock up facility for teenage boys) Westboro, MA (September)
Northeastern Family Institute (lock up facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester,MA (three-visit residency in May)
Metro Assessment Unit, (teenage male delinquent lock up) Dorchester, MA (with Talisman Russian Roma gypsy music in May)
Casa Isla Assessment (teenage male delinquent lockup), Quincy, MA (April)
Northeastern Family Institute (lock up facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester MA (April)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (Feb)
Spectrum Boys Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA (Feb)
Somerville Transition Shelter (teenage male delinquent lockup), Somerville MA (January)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA (three-week residency in January)

2005

Westboro Reception Unit (male teenage lockup), Westboro, MA (December)
Hillside Shelter Care (teenage male delinquent lockup), Roxbury, MA (Oct.)
Northeastern Family Institute (lock up facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester, MA (three-visit residency in September) [letters]
Brighton Treatment Center (teenage male delinquent lockup), MA (Sept.)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (three-week residency in August)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA with mezzo-soprano Krista River and pianist Alison D^(1)Amato (June)
Westboro Reception Unit (teenage male delinquent lockup), Westboro, MA (April) [letters]
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westboro, MA (April)
Charlestown Detention Unit (teenage male delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (April)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (3-week residency) (February)
Spectrum Boys Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (February) with Talisman Russian Roma gypsy music
Northeastern Family Institute (facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester, MA (January)
Casa Isla Assessment (teenage male delinquent lockup), Quincy, MA (January)

2004

Cheshire County Department of Corrections, (adults) Westmoreland, NH (November)
Metro Detention Unit, (teenage delinquent lock up) Dorchester, MA (October)
opera with Intermezzo Opera Company "The Game" by Brian Hulse
Northeastern Family Institute (facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester, MA (October)
Pelletier Center (facility for delinquent girls), Westborough, MA (3-week residency in August)
Brighton Treatment Center (teenage male delinquent lockup), MA (June)
Southern State Correctional Facility, (adult men) Springfield, VT (June 2004)
Southeast State Correctional Facility, (adult women) Windsor, VT (June 2004)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (3-week residency in May 2004) [letter]
Spectrum Boys Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (April 2004)
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA (February 2004)
Northeastern Family Institute (facility for delinquent girls) - three-week residency Dorchester, MA (February 2004)
Hillside Shelter Care (teenage male delinquent lockup), Roxbury, MA (January 2004)

2003

Metro Detention Unit, (teenage delinquent lock up) Dorchester MA (November 2003)
Inner City Horizons, (teenage delinquent lock up) Roxbury MA (October 2003)
Charlestown Detention Unit (teenage male delinquent lockup), Dorchester, MA
Northeastern Family Institute (lockup facility for delinquent teenage girls) Dorchester, MA (April 7-21, 2003) [letters]
Brighton Treatment Center (teenage male delinquent lockup), MA (March 17,2003) [letters]
Somerville Assisted Living, (elderly home) Somerville, MA
Spectrum Girls Program (teenage delinquent lockup), Dorchester MA

2002

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, South Burlington, VT [letter from facility]
Northeastern Family Institute (facility for delinquent girls) Dorchester, MA [letters from audience]
Brighton Treatment Center (teenage male delinquent lockup), MA
Hillside Shelter Care (teenage male delinquent lockup), Roxbury, MA
Somerville Transition Shelter (teenage male delinquent lockup) Somerville MA [letters from audience]

2001

Northeastern Family Institute (facility for delinquent girls), Dorchester, MA
Inner City Horizons, (teenage delinquent lock up), Roxbury, MA (2 times) [letter from facility]
Cheshire County Department of Corrections, Westmoreland, NH
Maplewood Nursing Home, Westmoreland, NH
Benjamin Banneker Charter School, Cambridge, MA (three week string quartet residency, in collaboration with Art, English teachers)
Greater Boston Aid for the Blind, West Roxbury, MA
Kendall Elderly Home, Ithaca, NY

2000

Benjamin Banneker Charter School, Cambridge, MA
The Cotting School (for severely disabled children), Lexington, MA
Brayton School, Massachusetts Hospital School for the Disabled, Canton, MA
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Common Cathedral (homeless), Boston, MA
Vernon Hall Elderly Home, Cambridge, MA
Youville Assisted Living, Cambridge, MA
Goddard House Elderly Home, Brookline, MA
Dana Street Elderly Home, Cambridge, MA
Kendall Elderly Home, Hanover, NH
Woodstock Correctional Facility, Woodstock , VT
Southeast State Correctional Facility, Windsor, VT
Brattleboro Retreat Adolescent Unit, Brattleboro, VT
Gibson Aiken Senior Center, Brattleboro, VT

1999

Cambridge/Somerville Social Club (drop-in center), Cambridge, MA
Dr. Solomon Fuller Mental Health Center, Boston, MA
Jewish Home for the Elderly, New York, NY
Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, NY
Raksha (school for dasabled children), Kochin, Kerala, India
Bapograma School (high school), Bangalore, India
Vikasana(village school), Vishranti, India
Eventide Home for the Elderly, Bangalore, India
Organization of Dalit Peoples (untouchables), Bangalore, India
The Transition School, Auroville, India

1998

Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, NY