The Public School New York & Triple Canopy

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK is a school with no curriculum. It's GLOBAL
At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
LOCAL
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL project was initiated in New York by common room and Telic Arts Exchange as The Public School (for Architecture) and operated with support from the Van Alen Institute between September and December 2009.

TRIPLE CANOPY works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. more

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK and TRIPLE CANOPY are based at 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Light Industry (a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn) also shares the storefront at 177 Livingston. map

Youth Film Program Suggestions

The Human Rights Watch film festival is looking for youth filmmaking programs to collaborate with this year. If you know of any organizations that are working on a film project, let me know!

Hope you're all having a good school year.

NYC Grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center

Boroughwide Grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC)

Creative Curricula
Creative Curricula is a local arts-in-education funding program, supported by NYSCA’s Local Capacity Building Initiative. The program makes matching grants to Manhattan schools working with cultural organizations or individual teaching artists. Creative Curricula supports projects that integrate arts and non-arts subjects in Pre-K through High School classrooms. [Deadline for 2009-10 has passed]

The Fund for Creative Communities DEADLINE 9-22-09
Supported by NYSCA’s Decentralization Program for Manhattan, The Fund for Creative Communities (The Fund) is designed to augment the financial resources of small to midsize nonprofit, community-based organizations that provide local, high-quality arts programs. Grants of up to $5,000 are awarded to organizations for arts projects with a significant public component and a direct impact on one of Manhattan’s diverse communities.

Manhattan Community Arts Fund DEADLINE 9-22-09
DCA and the office of the Manhattan Borough President provide the funding for the Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) grant, which supports local arts organizations and artists that have little access to other government funding sources. Both individual artists and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. The goal of this program is to prepare applicants to apply for and obtain public funds while enabling grant recipients to eventually leverage financial support from other sectors.

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