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Two years ago, she became executive director of the Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Education Center, 6300 N.W. Seventh Ave., in Liberty City that serves 2,150 students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To continue serving that legacy, Garrison launched Center Stage @ Meek, an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/tiny-desk-concerts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPR-Style Tiny Desk Concert Series<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dedicated to connecting students with MDC alumni who have been successful in the arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the talent who have participated in the series since it launched in June: actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yio_CZ8S9Os\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B\u00e9chir Sylvain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who starred in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jurassic World: Dominion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, spoken word artist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qHspaVVJJlg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calvin Made-S.O.N<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., Dominican musician <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xc-Zsg1IAyQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bozaq TBG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 and visual artist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GNO0cACD1WE&amp;t\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surfer Wolf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt gives the community the opportunity to see someone that they can aspire to be,\u201d Garrison said. \u201cIt gives them hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series takes place every third Saturday of the month in Room 1109. Episodes are divided into two parts that occur on the same day. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show concludes at 8 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part one is a live interview, which is moderated by Garrison. An hour-long intermission is held afterwards allowing the audience to have a meet and\u00a0 greet with the guest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople are able to enjoy themselves, take pictures, and just be with the artist,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/meek-center-selects-new-director-of-student-services\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshua Arjona<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who serves as Student Services Director at the Meek Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each show concludes with a live performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m very proud of what we&#8217;ve been able to do here with Center Stage @ Meek,\u201d Garrison said. \u201cTo see the way that our students and community can feed off of each other with the art that they are producing right in the room, is pretty electrifying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next performance will be on Nov. 15. It will feature the Miami Pixel Quintet, a local nonprofit orchestra that plays anime and video game music with woodwind instruments.\u00a0 Among the musicians who will perform are\u00a0 Angel Hernandez, who serves as director of learning resources at North Campus and is co-founder of Miami Pixel Symphony.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to expose and share this love and passion that we have for this music to the community, educate them, and show the importance that it has on basically anything that we watch and consume,&#8221; Hernandez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Click<\/i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"><i> here<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. For news tips, contact us at mdc.thereporter@gmail.com.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimene Garrison knows the power of Miami Dade College.\u00a0 As the daughter of a single mother who immigrated from Haiti, she knew that moving away for college was not an option.\u00a0 So after graduating from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1988, she continued her educational journey at MDC.\u00a0 \u201cI believe in the College, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13482651,"featured_media":40526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3779],"tags":[1928,3780],"class_list":{"0":"post-40527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-meek-center","9":"tag-meek-center","10":"tag-center-stage-meek"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meek Center Starts New NPR-Style Tiny Desk Concert Series<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Center Stage @ Meek, a new live arts series at the Carrie P. 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