Friends Association to offer arts programs for children

The Friends Association for Children will offer fall music and performing-arts programs for children from age 2 and up beginning Oct. 5.

Preschooler programs include weekly classroom instruction (ages 2 to 5) at all Friends centers, plus chorus and creative movement (ages 4 to 5) at the Friends Family Center, 1004 St. John St.

Other Friends centers are Robert L. Taylor Childcare, 929 N. 26th St., and Mary Tyler McClenahan Childcare, 2700 Bensley Commons Blvd.

Activities, which are free, include private music instruction, drum line, sign language, hand bells and chimes, KinderChorus, Showstoppers Chorus, ballet and tap.

Auditions for the drum line will be held Sept. 14 at 4 p.m. at the St. John Street center.

To register for activities or volunteer as an instructor, contact Elizabeth Scribner at (804) 644-2357.