PAE Postcard May 2008

Dancer/Choreographer Christal Brown to Speak, Teach at CFAC
Christal Brown, artistic director of INSPIRIT, a dance company in New York City, will present an informal lecture/demonstration on Friday May 16th at 6 pm at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), 805 East Genesee Street. The talk will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. To attend, please call Imagining America at 443-8590.

Christal Brown has toured with Chuck Davis’ African-American Dance Ensemble and Andrea E. Woods/ Soul Work. Brown has also performed with and managed the Gesel Mason Performance Project while apprenticing with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange just outside of Washington, DC. Upon relocating to New York City, Brown apprenticed with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company before finding a home with Urban Bush Women where she spent three seasons as a principle performer, community specialist, and apprentice program coordinator.

Additionally, Ms. Brown will offer a series of master classes to middle school dancers involved in the Kuumba Project at CFAC Wednesday through Friday, May 14th - 16th.

The Kuumba Project: An Urban Arts Education Program was designed by the SU’s South Side Initiative office in collaboration with the Community Folk Art Center as a pre-professional after-school training program for artistically gifted children. Syracuse City School District youth between the ages of 11 and 13 auditioned and were selected in the areas of dance, music, visual art, writing, and theater. The Kuumba Project enables them to be prepared to compete for admission in the best conservatories and visual and performing arts colleges in the country.

Brown’s visit is part of The Hyphenated Artist Series, a collaboration between Partnership for Arts Education and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. The series is supported by Enitiative, the Syracuse campus-community Entrepreneurship Initiative, funded by a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation focusing on entrepreneurship in the arts, technology, and our neighborhoods. This project is the first phase of a larger initiative to incubate new opportunities with those in the arts and cultural sector. You can read more about the series at http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=4687 or at PAE’s website. For more information, call PAE at 234 9911.

Save the Date – July 1st Hip-Shake Celebration
On July 1st, PAE will celebrate another year of successful arts partnerships in Central New York with a performance of Hip-Shake and a reception at Syracuse Stage. Curtain time is 6:00 pm, with the reception to follow at about 7:00. All art$TART-funded partnerships will receive certificates and recognition at the reception. Hip-Shake pairs up a modern spoken-word artist and a 17th-century actor from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for some verbal jousting, and we guarantee you’ll be entertained. Stay tuned for more details.

Share Your Story with CNY Arts Ed Roundtable Community and art$TART grantees
The next CNY Arts Ed Roundtable will join in with art$TART funded partnership grantees on Friday, June 20th from 4:00-6:30 pm at the Westcott Community Center, corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St. in Syracuse, for the second annual “Share Your Story” session. Did your students do amazing things you want to brag about? Looking for ideas on how to improve your projects next year? Got pictures of your classroom to share? Here’s your opportunity. We will make it a celebration of the year’s work with pizza and drinks, so let us know if you’re coming so we have enough food for all. RSVP to Georgia by email or Sue by email or by phone – 234.9911

“Not on the Test”
Got the NCLB-testing-curriculum blues? Watch this video by Tom Chapin – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry. . . http://www.notonthetest.com/

“Keeping the Arts in Mind” Course at Syracuse Teacher Center
“Keeping the Arts in Mind:  Arts-Based Learning Strategies” will be offered this summer as an SCSD in-service course for K-12 core content teachers and arts specialists Wednesdays July 2 – August 6, 3:30 – 6:00 p.m.

“Keeping the Arts in Mind” will provide arts-education theory, resources, and practical application of arts-based learning to support critical thinking, inquiry-based instruction, and creative approaches to core subject curriculum needs.  The NYS Learning Standards will be incorporated in a collaborative approach among participants and the facilitators.  Community resources will be an additional focus to examine how Central New York arts and cultural organizations can be integrated into daily learning, as well as deepening the connection with the arts and library/media specialists within the schools.  Each class will include an arts-based hands-on activity that can be used in the classroom as well as peer-to-peer support and collaboration to develop lesson plans and share best practices.

This course will provide 15 hours of professional development credit for SCSD teachers. For more information about the Syracuse Teacher Center, visit http://www.syracusetc.org/index.php

Opportunities
Oswego-Madison-Oneida BOCES Arts-in-Education Showcase
Friday, May 16  8:30-3:30
Roxboro Road Middle School – Mattydale, NY
The 22nd annual Showcase features 14 performances and over 25 arts-in-education exhibits.  $5 per person affiliated with Oswego or Madison-Oneida BOCES Arts-in-Education Service, $20 per person for non-AIE CoSer schools and interested parties - includes morning coffee, donuts and lunch. For more information and the registration form, go to: http://www.oswegoboces.org/profservices/artsined/showcase.asp

Summer Jazz Workshop for Students
An intensive one-week experience culminating in public performance with international guest artists, the process-oriented curriculum is designed to balance combo, one-on-one coaching, master class and public performance environments in a supportive atmosphere, guided by the finest musician-educators. All motivated students 18 and under, at all levels of expertise on any instrument, are eligible for the program. No auditions are necessary for admission. Tuition for the entire five-day workshop and evening performance with our national guest artist-clinician is $325. Family discounts available. For more information and registration form, go to http://www.cnyjazzorg/SummerJazz_Workshop.aspx

Symphony Offers Early-Bird Special for Education Concerts
In order to streamline the concert day process and to provide a benefit to you, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will be offering an Early Bird Special this season. Any school or group who pays for their reservation by October 3rd, 2008 will receive a discount of 20%.  Those who pay prior to that deadline will pay $4.00 per ticket, and those who pay after the deadline will pay $5.00 per ticket, regardless of the group size. There is an array of Young Persons Concerts (grades 4 - 8), Symphony Kids Concerts (grades Pre-K - 3) and a High School Concert (grades 9 - 12). As always, those with concert reservations will receive a comprehensive Concert Guide as well as an Audio Guide and a DVD of Daniel Hege introducing the instruments of the orchestra. Visit www.ssokids.org to reserve your seats for next season.

Youth Contributions to the United Nations Report on Climate Change
The United Nations Human Development Report (HDR) is the most widely read document published yearly by the UN. However, the reports are not widely read by youth. For this reason, the UN is encouraging young people to redesign the document in a concise but colorful way. Through Peace Child International, the UN is creating a task force of individual young people, school groups, etc. to bring to life the key climate change messages of the HDR with opinion pieces, reports, poems and stories, paintings, cartoons and photographs. On behalf of the UN, Peace Child International also seeks 30- to 90-second videos by youth on climate change. To read more about this year's call for contributions, view last year’s booklet and learn about the new filmmaking/YouTube portion of this invitation, visit: http://www.peacechild.org/climate/pdfs/pci_climate_call_en.pdf

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