I’m still searching for a website for the program, but here’s an article I had found a while ago:
Lahza: Camp Life Seen Through Children’s Eyes
Category: Community Programs
Amia’s post reminded me that Columbia College in Chicago has a Center for Community Arts Partnerships that was founded on a mission to link the academic departments of Columbia College Chicago with diverse communities throughout the city, CCAP brings the concepts of community-based learning, arts-integrated curricula and reciprocal partnerships into the spotlight. It unites artists, educators, students, corporations, schools and community-based organizations to form meaningful, sustainable partnerships in the arts. Please explore this site for next week.
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Visual Progression
This is a Wintessesque organization that a friend of mine started recently and is working in the realm of human rights and documentation (video).
OVP – the Organization for Visual Progression
— Brett Mayfield
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Picturing Hope
This is another great kids and cameras organization with a sustainable model that exists in a few countries, including Romania and Tanzania, among others. I am in the process of potentially working with them in the Romanian Clinical Center of Excellence in Bucharest.
— Brett Mayfield
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Alice Proujansky’s tips
Alice Proujansky website
Resources – Teen Programs and Activist Photography
Urban Arts Partnership – work in 50 underserved schools in NYC
after school and in school programs
Dreamyard – Bronx
The Leadership Program – gives you curriculum
(need to get link from Alice)
LEAP is a non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of public education through a hands-on, arts-based approach to teaching the academic curriculum. Leap empowers students to reach their full potential.
Red Hook Community Justice Center
Added Value (Red Hook Farm)
Books to Buy
Lively Learning – Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum by Linda Crawford
Teaching Children to Care – Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8 by Ruth Sidney Charney
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Art at the Laundromat
A great community project I came upon
The Laundromat Project
Believing that tools of self-determination lie within creative practices, The Laundromat Project uses the space of local coin-ops to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation. We aspire to be a laundromat-based art center, where our neighbors can gather to wash clothes, take art classes, and connect as human being….
3 Projects in New Orleans
Remedee Foundation teaches and encourages youth to use media to tell their own stories, and to open and engage in dialogue that promotes activism and change.
Remedee YouTube Channel
The Neighborhood Storytelling Project follows their mission, “Our stories told by us,” by working with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books about their communities.
The Porch a community grassroots neighborhood cultural organization. “We are a cultural organization commited to the Seventh Ward area, in New Orleans. We seek to promote and sustain the cultures of the neighborhood, city, and region and to foster exchange between cultural groups. The Porch is a place where all can come to do and to share their culture, and to take care of each other and our communities.” read more
and one in NYC
Urban Arts Partnership
Urban Arts Blogs
–check out their high school blogs on blog roll on right of blogs home page
great resource blog
READ for next week
Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift by Linda Frye Burnham
and also read any other assigned readings you haven’t read. We will discuss next week.
826NYC www.826nyc.org/
826NYC is to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.
>826nyc is an offshot of 826 Valencia created by Dave Eggers’ [author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, runs an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. Watch Dave Eggers TED speech
Recycle A Bicycle www.recycleabicycle.org/
Recycle-a-Bicycle is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs.Recycle-A-Bicycle promotes everyday bicycle use, and it is a great place to learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth.
THE POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. We work with our neighbors to celebrate the life and art of our community, an area traditionally defined solely in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools, and substandard housing. We believe the area’s residents, their talents and aspirations, are The Point’s greatest assets. Our mission is to encourage the arts, local enterprise, responsible ecology, and self-investment in the Hunts Point community.
Dave Eggers TED speech: listen
[Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then he’s written two more novels and launched an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States.]
Links:
http://www.826valencia.org/
http://www.826nyc.org/
http://onceuponaschool.org/
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PhotoStory
Hey Guys-
Photo Story is a project that blends story telling and photography, in an attempt to ‘personalize our common human experience.’
Its pretty self-explanatory, and worth checking out. Also an example of web-organization of a project somewhat similar to ours (photos, text, stories, etc).
Posted by Natalie R Olczak