One World ASAP (After School Arts Program) is pleased to offer programs through the Austin Independent School District that provides children with a creative, educational, and engaging after school environment. The goal of One World ASAP is to fill the afternoons of students with fun and enriching educational activities which give them the ability to grow culturally while learning to embrace and enjoy the rich diversity of our city and our world. 

The One World ASAP program allows children to participate in hands-on activities where they will learn culture, geography and history through music. Students' understanding and acceptance of different ethnicities, cultures and customs will be broadened while fostering and encouraging the musical inclinations of the participants. The One World ASAP activities support many of the general requirements of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Fine Arts while providing much needed supplemental arts education resources to our community’s youngest citizens.  Specifically:

• Perception – children are introduced to and learn standard terminology associated with music in its many forms, allowing them to explain and discuss sound, rhythm, etc.;                                                                
• Creative expression / performance – children participating in a One World ASAP activity learn different rhythms and tempos of music representing musical styles from diverse cultures played upon instruments that are unique to those cultures;
• Historic / cultural heritage – children learn to relate music, dance and instrumentation to history, to society and to culture through One World ASAP, e.g. multi-cultural Kids Series performances allow the children to learn about musical traditions as they have evolved in many different regions and countries around the world.

Are you interested in learning more about One World ASAP - Roots of Rhythm?

* For AISD, please visit your campus Boys & Girls Club or email program faciliator Sevylla del Mazo.  (Current AISD campuses include:
Overton Elementary
Bedicheck MS, and Webb MS.)

One World ASAP is please to announce our 1st course - Roots of Rhythm - A fun and exciting hands-on program where students move around the world on a musical journey, exploring different cultures as they construct their own rhythm instruments. While students are building their rhythm instruments, they will examine the countries and cultures their instruments originated in and influenced.  Students may travel to Brazil, to learn about the history and culture of its people while constructing and learning to play their own Cuíca drum, which is a squeaky sounding friction drum that is an integral part of Samba music and the music of Brazil. Another week the journey goes to Peru, to explore Peru’s geography, discover the roots of Peruvian music and construct and play the ancient Andean Pan Pipe. Teachers and students will enjoy both listening to and playing rhythms using ethnically diverse percussive instruments, found or student-made instruments, and body percussion.

The Roots of Rhythm program is 1 semester long, meeting once a week for 1-2 hours and the curriculum will change regularly to cover a new country and instrument.  All materials will be provided by One World and as much recycled materials as possible will be used. 

Roots of Rhythm is a multi-cultural, cross-curricular drum program designed to support an integrated arts and academics program.  Created by acclaimed percussionist and ethnomusicologist Dr. Craig Woodson, the Roots of Rhythm curriculum is a fascinating around-the-world exploration of world drums and rhythms. As students make their own instruments and music in this hands-on after school arts program, they will learn how percussion has influenced world cultures.  Roots of Rhythm was created for use in International House of Blues Foundation (IHOBF) and other arts and educational programs. The content—which combines music with social studies, math, art, and language arts—is designed to support classroom teachers in integrating music, music-making activities, and cultural ideas.  Classes align with TEKS requirements in music, social studies, math and history.