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2009–2010 Creative Curricula Recipients Announced
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is pleased to announce the 19 recipients of this year’s Creative Curricula grant, a local matching grant funded by the Local Capacity Building Initiative of the Arts in Education Program at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Creative Curricula supports partnerships among teaching artists, cultural organizations and Manhattan schools for projects integrating arts and non-arts subjects in the classroom.
Creative Curricula will provide $27,300 in support of arts-in-education partnerships in Manhattan schools during the 2009-2010 school year. Nineteen recipients out of thirty- eight applicants were awarded matching grants. The projects will use the arts to explore a wide range of academic subjects from the history of world religions to the math behind designing New York City buildings. A diversity of artistic disciplines will also be represented including stop motion animation, playwriting, Flamenco dance, and Hip Hop music. Projects will be taking place in schools from Upper Manhattan to Chinatown and the Lower East Side and serve students in kindergarten through twelfth grades.
Some highlights of this year’s Creative Curricula projects include a partnership between the Capoeira Center of New York and New Design High School in which ninth through twelfth grade students will be introduced to the Brazilian art form of Capoeria while studying Portuguese language and the history of the slave trade in the Americas. Another notable project comes from a partnership between Morris-Jumel Mansion and PS 4-Duke Ellington School in which fourth grade students will study the history of Washington Heights while using photography to document the neighborhood’s past and present.
To read more about these and other exciting Creative Curricula projects, please see our press release.
September 17, 2009permalink
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