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FAITH PRODUCTIONS
VARIETY SHOWS
SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
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* Opening of Alabaster's Attic Thrift Shop - August 2007
* Alabaster's Attic Thrift Shop
New location...WOW Outlet, Greensburg, PA
Opening Date: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009
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ALABASTER INTERNATIONAL
Alabaster history and major accomplishments
Alabaster International, an IRS recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded in 1991 as an educational outreach to schools, orphanges, state & federal prisons, emergency shelters and low income-high risk communities. Over 450,000 individuals in Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida and Colorado, as well as Honduras, Nicaragua and Jamaica have been infused with the power of character building tools through the vehicles of music, drama, art and dance. In addition to hands-on lessons and camps in drug & alcohol prevention through the arts, life skills, conflict resolution and peacemaking skills are taught. Professional concerts are presented in under-served neighborhoods, schools, and prisons, inspiring and reinforcing the maximization of each individual's potential. Alabaster's comprehensive program involves students learning side-by-side with professional performers in concerts, workshops and missions in the local, national and international communities, actively seeking and teaching world-peace and dialogue with peoples of all races, nations, religions and colors, at the grass root level.
Historic Highlights: Missions Near and Far
*1500+ assemblies and 200+ Promise Project Drug & Alcohol Prevention and Fine Arts Workshops in schools in southwestern PA and across the eastern United States
*267 Prison Concerts in almost every state & federal prison across PA & WV
*22 Emergency Youth Shelter Concerts & Workshops, Greensburg, PA (1998-present)
*Alabaster's own "habitat" project for low-income families in Jeannette & Greensburg
*1994-2001 Maximization of Human Potential concert tours in Honduras, Nicaragua & Jamaica
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Director. Mary McCormack, a professional singer, teacher, producer, author, composer and recording artist, founded Alabaster in 1991. She has performed throughout the United States and internationally, displaying her talents as diplomat, teacher and concert artist, developing and implementing effective projects from Honduras to Appalachia. Miss McCormack holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Seton Hill College, a Master of Music degree from Duquesne University, a Certificate of Opera Production from the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC, and has done graduate study at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
BEAUTY CAN SAVE THE WORLD. Dostoevsky
In our 15 year history, it has been Alabaster's experience with over 500,000 participants world-wide that Christian values expressed and experienced in music, art, drama and dance have led to higher thinking skills, creative problem solving, imagination development, confidence building, heightened self-respect and respect of others, resulting in less conflict and stronger conflict resolution when required |
Alabaster Current Operations
Alabaster's Attic Thrift Shop opened in August 2007 at 3rd & Hillis Streets in Youngwood, PA. The shop is designed to minister to the needs of the local community, offering clothing, housewares, books, toys and more for sale. 100% of the proceeds from the shop support Alabaster's many concerts performed at homeless shelters, prisons, churches, nursing homes and schools.
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