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Highlander Charter School and CityArts receive a grant from RISCA to create a community newspaper by youth
What is real news? What is opinion vs.
factual news? How do we tell our stories, and whose stories get told?
There are many ways our stories get told. Thanks to a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts,
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from The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor / F. Opper. 1897
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students from
Highlander Charter School, and Providence CityArts will have the opportunity to explore these questions through a multimedia technology, art, and communications project that explores storytelling about school, home, communities, and other issues that are important in children's lives today.
As part of the collaboration, two high school students from Highlander, and two CityArts high school alumni will
work with CityArts teaching artists, and writer/journalist and multimedia artist, Reza Clifton. Veteran newspaper reporters will also volunteer their time: Mary Murphy, retired photo editor at The Providence Journal, and Jonathan Saltzman, investigative reporter at The Boston Globe, will be available as "consultants" to the project.
The project will explore the important role of the news media in history and today. Youth will investigate what is the role of the writer and artist in speaking "truth?" Youth will create
their own true stories while learning about a variety of technology and media - photos, essays, poems, comics, drawings, videos, and audio stories. The project culminates in a series of online and print "newspapers" imagined and written by students.
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CityArts alumna, and current St. Mary's Academy Bay View senior, Neomy Delacruz, will lead a panel conversation about feminism art and social justice, next Thursday at 5:30pm
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"Fuerza" by Tamara Diaz |
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Please join Noemy and a panel of youth and adult artists on January 25 from 5:30-7:30pm at Providence CityArts/Highlander Charter School gallery, 891 Broad Street in
Providence.
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"Supergirl" by Nicole, student at Roger Williams Middle School
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explores how art can be a platform and medium for females to "speak their truth" and to tell oppressors of every form that "their time is up."
The hour-long conversation is with Shey Rivera, Tamara Diaz, Michelle Nugent,
Caitlin Gomes and young artists, ages 10-14, who attend Providence CityArts classes.The event is free and open to the public but registration is requested through
EventBrite
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CityArts teaching artist and multimedia artist, Kourtnie Alieri, aka wacklikethat, curates exhibition |
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CityArts Teaching Artist Kourtnie Alieri, aka
wacklikethat curates "School's Out" an exhibit of youth art at Jamestown Art Center
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 2018 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 19, 2018 - February 24, 2018
School's Out continues Jamestown Arts Center's tradition of hosting a Community Outreach Exhibition each January. In 2018 five regional, award-winning, after-school art programs will exhibit work created by their participants. Along with CityArts youth from AS220, FabNewport, New Urban Arts, and Riverzedge Arts will show their work.
This invitational show asks each organization to choose artwork from their own community programs that highlight the extraordinary work that is created but, seldom seen outside their own venues. A percentage of the proceeds of artwork sold benefits these five organizations.The exhibition continues through February 24. For more information click
here.
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New murals and art work around town - thanks to the CityArts AmeriCorps team and the Corporation for National Community Service
AmeriCorps teaching artists not only teach in schools, but they contribute to making Providence beautiful in many other ways. Most recent murals and art works have been hung at the Providence Community Health Center, Del Sesto Middle School, and the Sackett Street Recreation Center.
These pieces, sponsored by CNCS/AmeriCorps, and the Providence Community health Center were designed by Caitlin Gomes, AmeriCorps Coordinator, Chloe Hohlmann, AmeriCorps teaching artist, and a team of AmeriCorps members and young artists from CityArts.
Sackett Street Rec Center mural created by CityArts AmeriCorps team as part of their MLK Day service project.
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Contributions from individuals help keep our programs running. This year your support will help pay for our programs such as
gallery exhibits for 20 community artists
professional development for 50 emerging and veteran teaching artists
employment opportunities for 15 creative teens and young adults
arts learning opportunities for thousands of public elementary and middle school youth
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Without your support CityArts cannot continue to offer these empowering programs. Please
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Many thanks to our corporate and foundation sponsors for their support and endorsement of our programs:
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