The San Bruno Mountain Muses program provides underserved youth with opportunities to engage in outdoor creative expression during field trips to San Bruno Mountain. Activities will include participatory performances of local mountain songs, theatric storytelling at an outdoor amphitheater, land art utilizing natural materials, environmental poetry, nature journaling, and scientific illustrations of the mountain’s vegetation, wildlife, and landscapes. 

San Bruno Mountain Watch is excited to develop and launch this new program for the 2019-2020 school year, serving six schools in San Mateo County’s District 5. We are grateful to have received a $3,800 grant from the San Mateo County Arts Commission in support of this project.

For many of the students, these trips will be their first time on San Bruno Mountain; our guided arts activities will help them feel comfortable, engaged, and appreciative of the life of the mountain.

For further information about this program, please email ariel@mountainwatch.org

*The inspiration for the “San Bruno Mountain Muses” title is from the nine muses of Greek mythology. Calliope, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Urania, Terpsichore, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, and Erato were known as the nine goddesses of literary arts, music, visual arts, and science.