Starting in 1991, Sounds of Hope, Ltd., based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, creates performing arts camps and arts & culture camps for young people from countries worldwide.
Songs of Hope™ is a six-week, overnight performing arts summer camp for kids aged 10 and older from around the world. Songs of Hope™ offers participants a unique opportunity to live in community with kids from other countries and cultures while learning and performing music from many countries.
Global Reach™ Arts & Cultural Camp is a two-week, overnight summer camp for youth and young adults from countries around the world. Global Reach™ offers participants an amazing experience sampling the rich diversity of U.S. culture through the arts - music, dance, theater, visual arts, and more - with many opportunities for hands-on learning, trying, and growing.
THE SOUNDS OF HOPE WAY OF GROWING
Our camps are not about classroom and book learning, or about memorizing dry facts about countries. They are all about the cultural learning that comes from living and doing with people from many cultures. And what a wonderful way to learn!
Visit another country and interact with people from all over the world, experience firsthand the art and culture from many countries in many languages and styles, and play creative games involving language, geography, traditions, food, and art from many countries!
Our participants come home with improved English language skills, greater facility, more confidence, a more serious attitude about school — and a long list of new friends from countries worldwide! By giving participants a global experience, we improve social skills, improve comfort with other cultures, boost social confidence, and create global citizens.
OUR GOAL
To inspire Sounds of Hope campers to be global citizens and to become full members of a global community.

To give them a hands-on rich experience with arts and cultures from around the world.

To learn together, create, share, and have fun along the way.
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Are you curious about Songs of Hope™?
Watch “We Are All Connected by Water: the Songs of Hope Project” to find out more about who we are and what we do!
“We Are All Connected by Water” is a short documentary created by Albi Guaraldi and Anna Gori. Shot during SoH’22, the movie follows a smaller Songs of Hope community climbing back on stage after two years of lockdown, while reconnecting with the history of Songs of Hope, its values, meanings and memories through a series of interviews with some of the Hopers.
Click above to watch the movie!