Inside Malden

A rockstar panel discussing how to market, fund, and create new markets for the arts. These panelists are community-minded, passionate, and successful in their endeavors. For more information about this panel discussion, visit insidemalden.com

A rockstar panel discussing how to market, fund, and create new markets for the arts. These panelists are community-minded, passionate, and successful in their endeavors. Information about this panel discussion: insidemalden.com Image: Jean Appolon Expressions Dance Haiti with Artistic Director, Jean Appolon. jeanappolonexpressions.org

A rockstar panel discussing how to market, fund, and create new markets for the arts. These panelists are community-minded, passionate, and successful in their endeavors. For information about this panel discussion, visit insidemalden.com Image: A

Driven by a desire to give back and to offer educational opportunities to young urban learners, Dr. Charles Grandson IV, Interim Superintendent of the Malden Public Schools, reflects on his journey with education. He says his success is a "testament to what is happening every day in the public school systems across the nation." In his case, though he had trouble and at one point could not read, his teachers did not dismiss him but did what they had to do to help him become what he is today. Though Grandson never imagined he would be a superintendent or principal, he says he has always had a bit of a teacher within. This inclination was nurtured by important learning encounters that would shape his future. His mother, a single parent, arranged for Grandson to be schooled away from the crime close to home. In a school district closer to Georgetown, Grandson experienced a "different" kind of education than he would have had in his own neighborhood on the South East side of Washington D.C. Throughout his schoo

Podcast of conversation with Peter Moore, Composer, Performer, and Producer. When asked what a song about Malden would be, singer songwriter, producer, performer Peter Moore gave the perfect answer, "It depends on who asks for it." Peter Moore is as versatile, creative, edgy, and adaptive as artists get... able to bend styles, experiment with sound, inject quirks, and apply variety to the need. He intrigues listeners whether singing on stage with Blue Man Group or performing with his current rock band Count Zero, producing a kickstarter-funded rock opera, Heterotopia, writing songs that were picked up by video games such as Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero, or songs like Hire a Bird that rail against the destruction of the earth and reach the Top 500 Songs of All Time on Boston radio station WFNX. There is no doubt, Peter Moore could provide a number of songs for Malden in styles to suit our colorful demographic makeup and sensibilities. His voracious creativity and addiction to keeping himself and the audience