September 2009
6 posts
Gayle Danley at Compass House
Slam poet Gayle Danley presented at Compass House on Thursday, October 10. The shelter, for runaway and homeless youth, hosts Writing for Life, a YA-WNY residency that encourages the expression of difficult emotions through the creation of “altered books,” journals of memoir writing and found imagery. Funded with major support from the John R. Oishei Foundation, the program is taught...
A Rhythm Runs Through It! at Heritage Centers...
This month, YA-WNY is beginning a long-term residency at Heritage Centers After School Program with funding from the Children’s Guild Foundation. A Rhythm Runs Through It is a long-term arts integration program incorporating dance, music, yoga, and visual arts for young people throughout the year, in a 33-visit residency at the Heritage Centers After School Program. A Rhythm Runs Through It...
Save the Date! theatreFigüren presents...
theatreFigüren will present ”Underground, Over the Moon” at:
Open Hand Theater & Puppet Museum, Syracuse, NY Feb. 6th, 2010 - 11:00 a.m.
Lancaster Opera House Feb. 9th, 2010 - 10:00 am Riviera Theater Feb. 23 & 24th, 2010 - 10:00 a.m. Kenan Center March 25th & 26th, 2010 - 10:00 a.m. also, ”The Great Shiner’s Show” will be presented at the Kenan...
Gusto at the Gallery October 9 at Albright-Knox...
Save the Date! Join us for a FREE showcase of our programs for families, young and old alike. Travel on the Erie Canal with Young Audiences 4:30pm-8:30pm October 9, 2009
Traveling Museum – with Helga MacKinnon, explore artifacts from the era
Journeys and Journals – imagine you live during the Canal’s heyday with Melissa Kate
Collage an Erie Canal Postcard with Gerald Mead
Gretchen Murray...
Traveling Artists -- Book these outstanding...
Chinese Theatre Works — March 10-12, 2010 Cubanana — October 19-21, 2009 and May 24-26, 2010 Dance China — March 15-19, 2010 J.P. Somersaulter — May 24-26, 2010 Taikoza — May 3-7, 2010
Dance at Cradle Beach this Summer
Young Audiences artists, Cindy Hanna and Sarah Hooper recently completed a five week residency at the Cradle Beach Summer Camp in Angola, NY. Using dance as a tool to promote socialization and self-expression, these artists helped students with various disabilities to engage with a range of musical genres and discover the joy of movement through dance.
Sarah Hooper, a new...
August 2009
3 posts
July 2009
2 posts
Writing for Life
Young Audiences of WNY is concluding a third year providing Writing for Life to young people, with major support from the John R. Oishei Foundation and in partnership with Renaissance Campus and Compass House Resource Center.
Renaissance Campus and Compass House Resource Center serve young people who are recovering from drug addictions, escaping unsafe home environments or life on the streets....
Budding poets at Lovejoy Discovery School #43
Annette Daniels-Taylor worked with second and seventh graders at Lovejoy Discovery School #43 to bring to life Memoirs: Creative Writing, a YA-WNY residency funded by the Coalition of Arts Providers for Children.
Students interviewed their family, and mined their own memories, to write performance pieces based on personal experience. The following poem was created by seventh graders...
June 2009
8 posts
NEA reports decline in arts audiences for 2008 →
— David Ng — Los Angeles Times — July 15, 2008
All the more reason why we need to continue providing young people with the tools to be consumers, makers, and performers of the arts!
Audiences for the arts in the U.S. continue to decline and age at significant rates, according to a report released Monday by the National Endowment for the Arts. But the Internet holds out hope, as...
TA Melissa Kate's must-see summer performances
Melissa Kate has taught for YA-WNY for about three years, sharing her musical talent with students through performance workshops that refine vocal skills and encourage creative expression.
In addition, Melissa Kate performs Jazz, Blues and R&B as part of the Melissa Kate Project and the George Scott Big Band. Her summer calendar offers a series of don’t-miss free performances in and...
June 10th Follow the Sun! Benefit a Huge Success
Supporters of YA-WNY met at Shanghai Red’s on Buffalo’s historic waterfront on June 10th for our Annual Benefit Dinner. As attendees enjoyed the silent auction, dinner, and fellowship, Executive Director Helga MacKinnon introduced and recognized honorees Garry Stone, Robert D’Angelo and Cindy Hanna. Young Audiences of Western New York has Empire State Partnerships (ESPs) with two...
WatchHolland Elementary School Partnership
This slideshow shows the students at Holland’s H.O. Brumsted Elementary participating in long-term arts residencies offered with support, in part from the New York State Council on the Arts through an Empire State Partnership with young Audiences of Western New York. Images include 1st Graders working on “Community Quilts” with teaching...
WatchHolley Central School Partnership
This slideshow highlights the partnership between Holley Central Schools and Young Audiences of Western New York. Young Audiences provides arts-in-education programming to every student in the Holley School District. This is made possible by support secured by the school district, and funding secured by Young Audiences from the New York State Council on the Arts...
May 2009
3 posts
Education Is All in Your Mind →
New York Times
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Education Is All in Your Mind By RICHARD E. NISBETT Published: February 8, 2009 Stimulus money should be spent on education programs that promote confidence.
WatchYoung Audiences Presents The Third Annual Arts Abilities Conference
Music in this video by Miguel, “Growing Old”
The New York State Literary Center’s Empire State Partnership with Rochester City School District’s Youth and Justice Programs in collaboration with the Office of The Sheriff, County of Monroe. All Rights Reserved. Presented by Dale Davis at the conference as...
April 2009
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March 2009
1 post
“To neglect the contribution of the arts in education, either through inadequate...”
– Elliot Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University, Music Educators Journal, 1987
February 2009
7 posts
Poetry by Renaissance Campus Students
Two poems by students at Renaissance Campus follow. This winter session, the students worked on the idea of gifts, letters, and secrets.
Imprisoned loud, impulsive she smiles. down, gone and out. She went berserk for awhile. neurotransmitters—Malfunction radioactive—Brainwaves infuriating! Pulsating! the temptation is creating a crescendo that screams Angrily at brainwaves that pump...
WatchHeritage Centers After School Program
Young Audiences of Western New York has been partnering with Heritage Centers’ After School Program for the past six years to provide programming for young people who are developmentally disabled. This past fall Jennifer Russo and Miriam Minkoff were in residence with visual arts and drumming workshops. Youth who attend Heritage Centers After School...
“If you removed all the arts in the lives of our children…there is no way that...”
– National Arts Education Association
January 2009
6 posts
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WatchCome Fly with Me! at Holley Elementary School
Video of a Young Audiences dance workshop with Holley Elementary School Kindergarten students. The Come Fly with Me! residency is a collaboration between Teaching Artist Elizabeth Clark and Physical Education Teacher Jill Mann, and is part of the Young Audiences national network’s MetLife Dance for Life initiative, made possible with the...
Teaching artist Miriam Minkoff leads clients at...
“With a subject matter as broad as life itself, the arts easily relate to aspects...”
– Charles Fowler
December 2008
5 posts
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