Tips to help your child focus
Multitasking—for example, constantly switching between real life and online conversations, navigating mobile apps, or listening to music while doing homework—has become the modern child’s state of being. All these different tasks are constantly battling for your child’s attention, making it very difficult for them to maintain their focus on one thing. Yet the ability to […]
DEA Summer Camp: First Week
We had a fantastic start to our first week of camp at Dea Music & Art summer camp! Our campers spent the week creating works of art in a variety of mediums, participating in Theater/ Acting activities, building musicianship during individual piano lessons and group singing, and began brainstorming ideas for our upcoming all-camp video project! […]
Happy Mother’s Day! We’ve got a promotion for you!
What would we do without you, moms! To thank you for all the hard work we’ve got a special offer for you! Register for Summer Camp 2016 from May 7th trough May 16th and get 20% discount!
Our students got into Mark Twain!
This January a new generation of students has auditioned for Mark Twain Middle School for Gifted & Talented, among them young musicians that have been trained at DEA. We share a common goal with this unquestionably one of the greatest schools in NYC – to educate and encourage uniqueness. Our schools share a common goal: […]
Our teacher Ali Puskulcu just won an award!
We would like to congratulate our teacher Ali Puskulcu on winning the 2016 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. The ASCAP Foundation has been supporting musicians and encouraging their work through music education since 1975. The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Award was founded in 1979 to annually reward the best concert music composers under […]
7 Toys Your Kid Will Love This Christmas
Presents are a big part of Christmas worldwide and you can’t avoid it. Especially if you have kids. Every child, naughty or nice is asking for one thing for Christmas and that’s usually some kind of a toy or a game. Toys play an important role in child’s development. That’s why choosing the right toys […]
10 amazing covers of Christmas classics
“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes, Christmas is all around me, and so the feeling grows” The lyrics to this widely acclaimed Christmas hit and sort of a more festive variation of The Troggs original song describe precisely what most of us have been feeling since early November, […]
Why is pop music so … popular?
Pop music makes up the largest part of consumed music today. It’s radio, tv, in the grocery store you shop & it’s blasting from the car that passes you on street on your way to work. And this isn’t something that’s only happens in your city: Adele’s music is as famous in Beijing as it’s […]
Pumpkin carving made safe
Nothing screams Halloween season like pumpkin. It’s everywhere, starting from coffee to pie and even to porch decorations! We have been carving pumpkins ever since the Irish brought the tradition of Jack-o’-lanterns to America. It’s a great activity to let the imagination run wild and one that adults and kids enjoy equally. But it doesn’t […]
10 LAST MINUTE DIY HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS FOR KIDS
It’s already October meaning that Halloween is just weeks away! It can be a lot of fun but it can also mean extra stress and a lot of unnecessary expenses for parents. Our reader already knows we are all for creative approach in everything kids do and this seasonal celebration is no exception. Halloween is […]