Community Arts

Join DanceMates Educational Arts, NFP and Oakton Community College Alliance 8 Continuing Education Department’s family-friendly Hip Hop Dance Lessons and Dancing! Learn from the best youthful looking hot female Hip Hop dance instructors from DanceMates Educational Arts, NFP, Jennifer, Fran and company! Join us not only for HIp Hop but Swing, Ballroom, and Nighclub Latin dance lessons and instructions in all the locations listed at the webpage: www.dancemates.org/web1.html. To register your family today for Hip Hop dance lessons, please call the Continuing Education Department (ask for Anna Shipulina or Barbara Altwies) of Oakton Community College Alliance 8 by calling (847) 982-9888 today…

Attention Corporate and Individual Donors and Sponsors and Family and Corporate Foundations: DanceMates Educational Arts, NFP is a not for profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) dance and arts organization with a global purpose. Donations to Dancemates Educational Arts, NFP is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of law. We have the following causes for you to support: “Youth and Teens Afterschool Dance and Arts”; “Family Unity through Dance and Arts”. amd support for the October 2009 Annual Fundraising Event. For more information, please call Executive Director, Frances Strain, at (773) 286-6879. See you soon!

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WINNER 2008 COMING UP TALLER AWARD

In 2007 the Los Angeles Times, called TADA! “one of the nations most distinctive youth theaters.” Now we are thrilled to announce that TADA!’s Resident Youth Ensemble Program has won the nations highest distinction, the Coming Up Taller award from the Presidents Committee on the Arts & Humanities.

The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities. The awards also highlight the contributions that historians, scholars, librarians and visual and performing artists make to families and communities by mentoring children. More than 350 nominations were received by the program in 2007.

“The arts and humanities develop bright young people who will lead our nation in the future,” said Adair Margo, Chairman, Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. “Coming Up Taller recognizes the best of after-school and summer programs that engage youth in music, theatre, dance, photography, history and all kinds of enriching activities that help them realize their full potential as human beings.”

For more information, please visit the following Web sites:

TADA! Theater: www.tadatheater.com

Coming Up Taller: www.cominguptaller.org

Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities: www.pcah.gov

National Endowment for the Arts: www.arts.gov

National Endowment for the Humanities: www.neh.gov

Institute of Museum and Library Services: www.imls.gov

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Project Racines approach is to train local youth through IAHV & Art of Living’s powerful Youth Leadership Training Program (designed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) as powerful leaders to revitalize the country.

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Alienation, exclusion, violence and cultural conflict pose a great threat to peoples lives and well-being. When these ills afflict the youth, as they now increasingly do in many parts of Europe, the threats and risks to society are magnified, and the very basis of society is attacked.

The deterioration of economic conditions brought about by the on-going global economic downturn accentuates the difficulties of overcoming insecurity, violence and confrontation in society. Rising unemployment leads to more anxiety, aggression, and civil unrest, especially among the youth.

While young people are sometimes perceived as a serious threat to peaceable communities, they play a critical role in building trust and harmony in an intercultural society. The main challenge is to engage the youth and their boundless energies for positive social transformation. In them lies our greatest hope and resource for achieving durable peace and unity in our culturally diverse societies.

In response to this challenge, the Art of Living Foundation and the International Association for Human Values have launched the YES We Can! Community Leadership Program (CLP). The mission of the YES We Can! CLP is to empower youth to create intercultural harmony and a stress-free, violence-free society.

YES We Can! CLP has three program goals:

* Imbibe leadership skills and human values
* Involve communities and people from diverse cultures
* Inspire for positive social transformation and change

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Community Arts North West’s Urban Music Theatre Programme project 2007

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The Palm Beach County Armory Arts Center located in West Palm Beach, Florida, takes on a new look when young people of all ages and backgrounds came together in an initiative that used art to promote unity as a creative theme. Beginning in 2006, the Institute documented a diverse group of young people who collaborated and gained experience in realizing, creating and contributing to the future of art design in our community. This was accomplished by joining together to establish a permanent monument that memorializes their effort in enhancing public spaces. The initiative was made possible with grants from the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Publix and New York music mogul, Russell Simmon’s Rush Foundation.

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Bates Dance Festival hosts the Youth Arts Program (YAP), a community outreach program that brings youth from the Lewiston/Auburn, Maine community, and their families, together with world-class artists to experience music and dance firsthand. YAP engages young people ages 6-17 in an intensive and enjoyable three weeks of dance and music classes taught by a staff of gifted arts educators. YAP is structured as a full-day (9am to 4pm) non-residential program.

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