AEI artist Keri Chryst is back at Beverly Elementary to help ring in the season with jazz! Excited to learn about JAZZ! Scat Cat Sessions - Part Deux It’s been less than 2 years since the last Scat Cat Session here at Beverly Elementary in Toledo, Ohio. It’s pretty cool that many of the “upper classmen” (well, 3rd, 4th and 5th graders) still remember some of the names and faces of the jazz greats that they’d learned about when they were “little”. ;-) And just like rereading an old favorite...

AEI artist - Keri Chryst - introduces a fresh round of young Nebraskans to the joys of jazz & improvisation Scat Cat Sessions - Lincoln Elementary It was another whirlwind week for our founding member artist, Keri Chryst, and the young Scat Cats at Lincoln Elementary in Hastings, Nebraska. Ella, Louis & Duke All 400+ students, ages K-5 got a chance to interact with this professional jazz vocalist to learn about some of America’s most treasured jazz artists. By the end of the week, the young...

AEI member artist and choreographer Nicola Ayoub leads her dance workshop Face Forward for the women's professional association Justice Administrative Alter-Egale in Lyon. Gender and Justice On November 7, 2025, the choreographer Nicola Ayoub led her dance workshop Face Forward for the association Justice Administrative Alter-Egale in Lyon, which works in favor of parity and for the dissemination of a true culture of equality within the French administrative justice. The session kicked...