PAE Postcard November 2007

CommonGround Workshop Proposals Due November 16th

Attention all arts-in-ed practitioners: Do you have successful problem solving, useful assessment techniques, or exciting school reform experiences to share with the field? We want to hear about it! PAE is accepting proposals for workshops for CommonGround 2008, April 9 – 11 in Albany. Be part of the sharing of best practices with your peers from all over New York State. The deadline for RFP’s has been extended to November 16, 2007. You can get guidelines and the RFP form at our website.

AE Receives Grant for Arts Incubation
Laura Reeder and PAE were chosen by Syracuse University as one of twenty grant recipients who will lead projects promoting entrepreneurship in technology, arts, and neighborhoods in Central New York. She will work with Imagining America to create a cultural incubator that does for the arts and cultural sector what technological incubators do for the technology field. The incubator will help people at any stage in developing artistic and cultural expertise identify how to make a life and a living in these fields, ideally in CNY. A combination workshop/interdisciplinary seminar series will be established to provide a way for people to continue to expand their skill set.

"Enitiative" -- the Syracuse Campus-Community Entrepreneurship Initiative -- connects campus and community organizations by providing entrepreneurship grants to fund ideas for revitalizing Central New York. Other projects funded by Enitiative this year include establishment of a new master's degree program in arts administration/arts leadership at SU, and a 20-page history of Syracuse's West Side neighborhood published by Onondaga Historical Association and SU students.

Arts in Mind Website
Arts in Mind, the initiative to bring high-quality arts learning to every Syracuse school, now has its own website, www.artsinmind.net , with descriptions of the pilot schools, FAQ’s, and more. As the project increases in scope, the website will grow with it. Check back in from time to time and see what’s new.

Bamuthi Recognized by Smithsonian
Marc Bamuthi Joseph has been named one of the “37 Under 36 – America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” in a special issue of Smithsonian Magazine profiling people who are “crossing disciplines to make a difference in our world.”  “These are people to watch,” said Senior Editor Kathleen Burke. Those of you who came to our June event featuring a performance by Bamuthi, or saw his performance at CommonGround 2006, have already had the opportunity to see what a dynamic, articulate, and affecting performer he is. Now a lot more people know – but you can say you saw him when.  You can see the article at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/joseph.html

Resource

Syracuse Stage Brings ”Backstory!” to Schools
The “Backstory!” program provides interactive creative history lessons for all ages in which actors visit classrooms and other venues to bring historical characters to life. The featured characters for 2008 are Anne Frank, Harriet Tubman, Zora Neale Hurston, inventor Leon Theramin, child garment worker Rosalie Randazzo, and a new program, HIP-SHAKE, the unlikely duo of a hip-hop spoken word artist and an actor from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

The Syracuse Stage Dept. of Educational Outreach offers Primary Source, a workshop prior to the  performance for teachers. They can also provide teaching artists to come to the classroom to compliment the “Backstory!” of your choice. Performances are available Feb 25-May 15, 2008. For more information on this program, contact Lauren Unbekant at Syracuse Stage at 443.1150.

Free Lectures from “Speakers in the Schools”
New York Council for the Humanities offers Speakers in the Schools, a free lecture program offered to all New York high schools, public and private. Speakers in the Schools offers more than 100 lectures in humanities topics from leading scholars to enhance your standards-based curriculum. Topics range from New York and American history to literature, media, technology, philosophy and folklore.

Complete program information, including applications and simple instructions, are available on the website. If you would like more information about this new free program, please contact Anna Links, Program Officer at New York Council for the Humanities at 212.233.1131 x28.

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