The 2012 Community Collaboration / Future Imagemakers Workshops have started.

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SPARK a Movement

Very inspired by this movement. Great site too.

SPARK a Movement: "SPARK began as a response to The Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls and its call for grassroots mobilizing around the clear and present danger that sexualization poses to girls and young women. The Report clarified the difference between healthy sexuality and sexual objectification.

SPARK was designed to engage girls as part of the solution rather than to protect them from the problem. A day of workshops and action spots gave girls the tools they needed to become activists, organizers, researchers, policy influencers, and media makers.

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Youth Photographers from the Flathead Reservation in MT

Char-Koosta News - Official Newspaper of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Seeing the community with different eyes: "Seeing the community with different eyes
By Lailani Upham

Photo taken by former TERS student, Tasheena Bigcrane.

PABLO — Middle school and high school students on the Flathead Reservation have been enthusiastic participants at Two Eagle River School for the past ten years in a personal vision and experience through a photography project called, "Our Community Record."

Last Friday, Salish Kootenai College professor, Two Eagle River School instructor and photographer in residence David J. Spear, shared the work students have been involved in the Flathead community," read more

* David J. Spear was one of the former NYU professors teaching Community Collaborations.

Question Bridge

January 13–June 3, 2012

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 12 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. From these interviews they created 1,500 video exchanges in which the subjects, representing a range of geographic, generational, economic, and educational strata, serve as both interviewers and interviewees. Their words were woven together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, through which important themes and issues emerge, including family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence, and the past, present, and future of Black men in American society.

The video below gives an overview of the entire project

The Question Bridge Team has developed an incredible curriculum for educators. Register for the Educator Forum as a teaching artist. Their vimeo channel presents  many curriculum modules. This is an extremely rich resource.

Online Sources for Curriculum Ideas

Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections

Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble booklet - pp 37-68 Dowload PDF

Venice Arts is a treasure trove of resources, activities and more.
Click on Library tab and then see pull down menu.

Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)

Literacy Through Photography Blog

Urban Arts Partnership has a rich website - worth exploring entire site
For specific curriculum ideas, look at Photography posts on the blog

For inspiration, take at a look at Storymapping Projects, an interesting interface for presenting stories

On Reading

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading – SchoolBook:

Interesting article from NY Times School Book section about standardized testing and thinking about how to develop a love of reading.

and it looks like SchoolBook on nytimes.com is worth more exploration

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ART IS NOT APART: Experiments, Reflections and Manifestos

 A three-day symposium for artists, educators, curators and community workers who seek to reclaim the arts as an integral part of community life.

January 26th - January 28th 

Collaboratively designed and hosted by two of New York’s oldest yet most innovative community-based organizations - University Settlement and Henry Street Settlement.