About Us - The Element YMC Tour

This summer,Element Eden, The Collective Sound (TCS) Music Academy, and The Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach will team together to present the year's premiere California youth cultural event - The Element Youth Movement CoOp Tour. The 5 stop music, art, and educational event kicks off at each stop with kids from the TCS Summer Rock & Roll Music Camp opening for indie headliners The Shimmies. Also on hand, the Boys & Girls Club presents "Scratched", a collaborative art installation, and sponsor and educational booths will round each stop with product givaways and information on youth issues.

"Music, Art, Educate"…the voice of youth sounds out at this summer's Element Youth Movement CoOp (YMC) Tour, a collaborative venture between Element Eden, The Collective Sound (TCS) Music Academy, the Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach, and many more talented individuals and youth organizations. Gathering to empower the next generation and bring awareness to youth health, cultural, social, and environmental issues.

"We've been producing this event for four years now, and our goal, like the Boys & Girls Club and many of the other organizations that participate in YMC, is to present youth from varying socio-economic backgrounds with space and resources for creative expression and skills building. For us, we do this by giving kids an authentic experience in musical performance, recording, creating music videos, EPKs, and touring through the vehicles of rock, electronic, and popular music. The tour is a one of a kind opportunity for our students to speak to bigger audiences and venues," says TCS Founder, Zac Smith.

Joining the tour this year, The Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach raises awareness on youth art and the environment with "Scratched", a collective art installation created with discarded CD's. Also, rounding out the stops will be booths highlighting issues facing the next generation, and sponsor information and product give-aways. Last year's sponsors included Surfrider, Roland, Skateboard ASC, ASEC, and Boarding for Breast Cancer.

TCS promotes and empowers young musicians, developing their confidence in their creative and musical potential through programs like TCS Summer Rock & Roll Music Academy and "Creative Labs" After School Programs.

""There are a variety of excellent youth based programs out there that involve sports and other activities, yet it is peculiar that creative expression through music has few guided and funded options. It is a valid plight to offer youth a platform to conceptualize and bring to fruition their musical ideas, while teaching them the value working and communicating with others in developing an idea."

To see TCS kids perform at last year's YMC Tour Event, check out the Web Series "Let it Be Heard... - The Story of the Collective Sound" at: http://www.thecollectivesound.com/tv/

ELEMENT EDEN:
In 1992, the Element seed was planted. Our goal was simple, to be the best we could be in the most honest and ethical way possible. Today, we're as dedicated as ever to bringing progress to the world of skateboarding through the continuing creation of art, direction, and communication. We're more than a business—we're a family, all on the same journey for growth within ourselves, Element, and the world around us.
www.elementeden.com

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
Promoting healthy behaviors, ethical values, academic achievement and cultural appreciation in the youth of our community; Boys & Girls Clubs are a safe place to learn and grow – all while having fun. They are truly The Positive Place For Kids.
www.bgcLaguna.org

THE COLLECTIVE SOUND
TCS is a non-profit organization providing youth, age 12-18, with an authentic musical experience in writing, recording and performing through the vehicles of rock, electronic and popular music. The Collective Sound nurtures tommorrows creative innovators and leaders via summer camps and after school programming.
www.TheCollectiveSound.com

Press Contact:
Zac Smith
530-354-4045

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