EDEN Colorado enters its 3rd year!
EDEN is a workshop in music and environmental awareness for children in grades K-12. It seeks to inspire empathy with nature by asking, What if trees could sing? Children respond to this prompt with words and music from which they create their own songs.
EDEN was founded as an international project by the world-renowned singer and Grammy Award winner Joyce DiDonato, in conjunction with the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC). In Europe, the project is already blooming. So too in Colorado, where Ars Nova founded EDEN-Colorado in 2024. The project has since become an integral part of Ars Nova’s education programs. Together these programs embody the choir’s core commitment to enrich the next generation of musicians and music lovers.
EDEN-Colorado’s workshops are offered free of charge, throughout the state, to K-12 schools, many of them Title I. Taught by Teaching Artists who are themselves Ars Nova singers, the workshops are flexible enough to accommodate the needs and schedules of individual schools.
To date, the program has been offered mainly across the Boulder Metro Area. In 2026-27, its workshops will expand north and east to schools in Longmont and Denver.
This summer EDEN-Colorado will travel to Leadville, Basalt, Gypsum, and Carbondale to bring its workshops to Title I children in their local summer camps. It will also present at the CMEA Conference in Colorado Springs at the Broadmoor Hotel.
All of the children who participate in EDEN-Colorado are invited to perform at a free, family-friendly Ars Nova concert. They will sing their own compositions and sing Seeds of Hope, the EDEN anthem, written by the pilot children’s choir created for this project. 
In the words of Joyce DiDonato,
“Eden is a call to action to build a paradise for today: to fertilize, nourish, and protect the pure bliss that the deepest part of us knows and yearns for: the unpolluted perfume of a linden branch; the comforting shade of a towering tree; the breathtaking sanctity of pure love; the generosity of the endless light that breaks open for us every single morning; the dying to the world we have known, only to embrace and live aloud in our heaven, our love, and our song.”
Do you have questions? Reach out to Executive Director Kim Brody at kimberly@arsnovasingers.org, or to EDEN-Colorado Coordinator Ellen Moeller at education@arsnovasingers.org
