University of Orange

Steel Pan Class for Kids
2024-08-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-23 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The Steel Pan Band of Orange will launch this summer during University of Orange’s summer session with both a children’s intensive and an adult intensive! Both Steel Pan Intensives are designed to introduce people to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.
August 19th through 23rd, 1-4PM daily.
Open to children in 5th grade through 9th grade.
Learn more and register for Steel Pan Class: https://universityoforange.org/?mgi_212=4278/steel-pan-band-of-orange

Jevaun Grant is the lead teacher of the Steel Pan Band of Orange. As a visionary, he inspires growth and new ideas, while helping to foster relationships throughout our community. He could give Dreamworks a run for their money due to his continuous tenacity and effort to see a dream come to reality. He has been playing the steel pan for over 18 years, adding notable bands such as The Young Picassos, Trinidad All Stars, Despers USA, and Ekkquinox Steel Band to his resume. He specializes in genres like R&B, Afro-Caribbean and Hip-Hop. Some of his biggest influences in music growing up were Outkast and KES. If you want to hear and see more of his highlights, you can follow him on: IG @lordtenor.

Steel Pan Class for Kids
2024-09-24 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-01 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-08 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-15 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-22 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-10-29 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-11-12 17:30 - 18:45, 2024-11-19 17:30 - 18:45 and 3 more dates | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Steel Pan Band of Orange
The Steel Pan Band of Orange launched this summer during University of Orange’s summer session with both a children’s intensive and an adult intensive! We are continuing the program for kids this fall, weekly from September through December. See below for details. Open to children from Orange and its surrounded cities (incl. East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, Montclair, Irvington, Newark, Maplewood, etc.)

WHAT:
This steel pan class for kids is designed to introduce students to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.

WHEN, WHO, WHERE:
Children’s Steel Pan Fall Classes: Weekly on Tuesdays, September 24-December 17. Total of 11 classes for this semester. Classes will not be held on Election Day, Nov. 5, or the week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 26.
Open to children in 5th grade through 9th grade.
@ The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050

COST:
These classes have a sliding scale donation to participate. We suggest a donation of $20-$50 per class ($220-$550 for 11 classes). If those price points don’t work for you, you can indicate that on the application form. We would like these workshops to be available to everyone! All donations go towards supporting Steel Pan classes in Orange.
Reach out to us with any questions at info@universityoforange.org.
TO SIGN UP or EXPRESS INTEREST Check out this page: https://universityoforange.org/archives/4278

Steel Pan Class for Adults
2024-09-24 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-01 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-29 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-05 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 and 5 more dates | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
WHAT:
Both the adult and children Steel Pan classes are designed to introduce people to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.
WHEN, WHO, WHERE:
Adult Steel Pan Classes – Tuesdays, 7:15-8:30PM, starting September 24th
Open to anyone aged 18+.
@ The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050
COST:
Classes are “pay-what-you-can”. We suggest a sliding scale donation of between $20 and $50 per week. If those price points don’t work for you, you can indicate that on the application form. We would like these workshops to be available to everyone! All donations go towards supporting Steel Pan classes in Orange.
Learn more and register here.

The Wind Down
2024-10-26 18:00 - 21:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The Wind Down Concert Series is back! Come hear local emerging artists perform at the HUUB on October 26th. There will be performances by Cloud Jae, Janetza, and Amanda is Tall.

Remembering Rosa
2024-12-06 18:30 - 20:30 | NJ
Join us on December 6th for the 9th annual Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace. This year we are in Heywood Avenue’s auditorium (421 Heywood Ave.), and have a line up featuring music and dance from the Remembering Rosa Community Choir, Ebenezer Baptist Church choir, Heywood Avenue Choir, East Orange Dance, Concepts Dance Academy, and the Steel Pan Ensemble of the Oranges.
Brief remarks will be made by Dr. Mindy Fullilove (OHS Class of ’68), Rev. Bill Rutherford, and Dr. Khemani Gibson (OHS Class of ’10). Three special “HonDoc” awards will be presented to three community leaders.
The concert is free and will also be live-streamed to University of Orange’s facebook and youtube pages.
Remembering Rosa celebrates the legacy of Rosa Parks, as an activist and a life-long learner, and the feat of solidarity that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott being organized and implemented just 4 days after her act of civil disobedience. Our concert brings together choirs from around Orange and Essex County to sing together in her memory, but also to learn about and honor local histories of community organizing.

Trini Holiday Party - Concert and Fundraiser
2024-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join the Steel Pan Ensemble of the Oranges for our first end-of-year Trini Holiday Party! This an end-of-year concert for both the Youth and Adult Steel Pan groups, as well as a fundraiser to support classes in 2025.
Join us for an evening of island food, island music, and seasonal cheer. There will be a photo booth, raffle, opportunities to try out the steel pans, and opportunities to sign up for our 2025 steel pan classes.
Event attendance is free. Donations of any amount are welcomed and go towards supporting the steel pan classes and performances.
Register for the Holiday Party here.
Wednesday, December 18th, 6pm-8pm at the HUUB
35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ.

Adult Steel Pan Intensive (all levels)
2025-07-28 18:30 - 20:30 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The Steel Pan Ensemble of Orange offers opportunities for adults and children to learn and perform steel pan music.
The Steel Pan classes are designed to introduce people to playing Steel Pans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.
The adult summer intensive is open to any and all students above the age of 18.
Class Dates:
Monday, July 28th
Wednesday, July 30th
Friday, August 1st
Tuesday, August 5th
6:30PM- 8:30PM
Classes will be held at The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street in Orange.
All programs end in a community event and performance the evening of Friday August 8th and a potential performance at the Caribbean Festival in Orange Park on Saturday August 9th.
Classes are pay-what-you-can. We suggest a sliding scale, but donations of any amount are appreciated and the amount you can afford is not a factor in acceptance to the classes. Classes do need to cover their costs in order to run. Any questions about our pay-what-you-can model or inquiries about full scholarships can be sent to info@universityoforange.org
Register for Steel Pan Intensive here.
If you are interested but the timing of rehearsals doesn’t work for you, please still fill out the sign up form and let us know. We will add additional sessions if there is enough interest.
