FIM

FIM is a music school in Flint, Michigan, operating as the Flint Institute of Music. It is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization that reaches more than 300,000 people annually through lessons, classes, outreach programs, performances and concerts. Its artistic division includes the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Flint Repertory Theatre, presenting series at Whiting Auditorium and Capitol Theatre, and Movies at the Capitol Theatre. The Flint School of Performing Arts, one of the largest community schools of the arts in the nation, provides music, dance and theater instruction and performance opportunities for students of all ages and abilities. FIM operates five performance venues, four of them on the Flint Cultural Center Campus: Whiting Auditorium, Elgood Theatre, Bower Theatre and MacArthur Recital Hall. Community engagement includes the long-standing Music Around Town program, which sends musical ensembles across the greater Flint area from June through August, and the Troubadours. FIM holds a rating of 5.00 based on 102 reviews.

FIM traces its roots to the Flint Community Music Association, formed on September 20, 1917 under the leadership of automotive pioneer and philanthropist J. Dallas Dort, with the stated purpose of promoting community interest in the City of Flint through general participation in music. Its earliest activities centered on community sings and large noon-day factory sings held at automobile plants throughout the city. The Flint Symphony Orchestra began in January 1918 as a community orchestra of about twenty players. The organization is the oldest example of community-planned music in the United States and has celebrated over a hundred years of service to the community.

The school sits on East Kearsley Street, within steps of several cultural institutions. The Whiting and the Flint Youth Theatre are both under a tenth of a mile away, and the Flint Institute of Arts, Sloan Museum and Flint Cultural Center are each about a tenth of a mile from the address. The Buick Automotive Gallery is roughly two-tenths of a mile away.

FIM is known for a strong local reputation reflected in consistently high customer ratings, built on an established track record and a large base of customer reviews.

For more than a century, FIM has made music, dance and theater instruction and performance part of life in Flint, and its place on the Flint Cultural Center Campus keeps that work at the center of the city's arts community.