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Top left: Youth Detention Facility building. Top right: two students playing snare drums on a drum stand. Bottom left: Mandarins Pathways supporters standing side by side, wearing face masks. Bottom right: Jim Tabuchi wearing a face mask posing behind six Mapex Backpacks.

Mandarins Pathways

Dedicated to enriching the lives of incarcerated youth within the Department of Justice through music education.

Our Director

Headshot of Chris Cyr

Chris Cyr

Pathways

The Mandarins Pathways program is proud to report that we now provide two co-ed classes inside the Juvenile Department of Justice for beginning and advanced music/percussion/literacy classes. We have had several students promote to the next level and advanced student have expanded to piano/guitar as well.

Chris Cyr have been teaching how to read, write, and perform weekly sight reading charts and jam sessions. We even have some of the guards on duty jamming with us and challenging the students. Its been a great environment for learning in our new classroom at the Boys and Girls Club inside the DoJ.

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