Thursday, April 23, 2009
COOPERATIVE ARTISTS INSTITUTE EVENTS/SCHEDULE - April-May 2009
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CAI NewsNotes is a quarterly e-communication to let CAI Core Community members and friends know about news, program successes, and upcoming activities. Please let us know if your e-mail address changes so we can keep you up-to-date on our list.
Phone: 617-524-6378 E-mail: cai@tribal-rhythms.org
Fax: 617-522-7122 Website: http://www.tribal-rhythms.org
CAI News Notes April-May, 2009
Upcoming Events & Announcements:
• CAI's Spring Wine-tasting Event, Mon., April 27, 6:00-8:00 PM
• Peace Drum Project Annual Awards & Celebration, Tues., June 2,
5:00-7:00 PM at Julia Martin House in Jamaica Plain
• CAI Board of Directors Meeting, Weds., June 10, 7:00 PM
Spring Wine Tasting Event:
Join us for a fantastic evening of fabulous fragrances, full-bodied flavors, festive fun - and a great way to welcome the warmer weather. Support CAI by attending this fun fundraiser on Monday, April 27 in Doyle's Back Room, 3484 Washington St., Jamaica Plain. Suggested donation is $25. Space is limited. RSVP, 617-524-6378.
The Peace Drum Project:
Our teen participants are working with a wonderful group of elders from Julia Martin House and from several other locations around Jamaica Plain. We are all looking forward to reading the elder's stories, and to our end-of-year celebration of the teens and elders. This year several exhibits will feature artwork from the project! Following an intensive printmaking residency with Susan Thompson at AAMARP Studios, we are working on a print and banner exhibit in addition to the drums and stories this year.
Mark your calendars for the Peace Drum Annual Awards Celebration from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2 at Julia Martin House. After this event, an exhibit of the drums and the elder's stories will be on display at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick St., from June 3 - July 6, 2009. Our community partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will conclude with the teens' work being included in the Community Creations Exhibit opening on Friday, June 12. In the meantime, you can check out last year's drums and the elder's stories at http://www.tribal-rhythms.org/drum_exhibit.html.
Many thanks to our funders including: The Janey Fund, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, Boston Cultural Council, the John H. and H. Naomi Tomforhde Foundation, and many generous individual donors. If you have time to volunteer at our final event, or if you wish to sponsor a youth in the project, call Susan at 617-524-6378.
Tribal Rhythms® Touring & Residency Programs:
Residency at the Doran Elementary School in Fall River: On April 17, the Tribal Rhythms Residency at the Doran School in Fall River came to a dramatic end with students performing The Story of the Weakest and Strongest in a fitting end to this year's residency. Doran School Principal, Maria Pontes, and observers from the Massachusetts Cultural Council called the residency "a highly successful program." Fourth graders and their teachers were the residency's primary focus, and they played the starring roles in The Story of the Weakest and Strongest before an audience of fifth graders, teachers and specialists, parents, and school administrators. Tribal Rhythms Program Artists were thrilled by the students' accomplishments. The outcome demonstrated that the residency's professional development workshops really helped teachers use students' arts experiences to enhance language arts instruction and student literacy. CAI thanks the Doran School and the MCC Creative Schools Program for the opportunity to provide this rich arts experience for children in Fall River.
The Tribal Rhythms Touring Company has had a very busy year, presenting programs in 25 Massachusetts cities and towns so far this year including: Abington, Arlington, Attleboro, Boston (8 neighborhoods,) Brookline, Braintree, Chelsea, Cambridge, Cohasset, Fall River, Holden, Hudson, Lexington, Lowell, Lynn, Reading, Rochester, Sharon, Sterling, Tyngsborough, Wareham, Weymouth, Wilbraham, Woburn, and Worcester. Programs in schools, community settings and housing developments have included performances, workshops, and residencies at various locations.
Tribal Rhythms touring programs help schools and after-school programs strengthen their sense of community and help children learn the values of caring, cooperation and respect. Activities use the Arts to help schools address a range of issues from bullying and cliques to empowering children with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Tribal Rhythms is FUN, but it is also one of CAI's key tools for addressing some of today's most urgent problems created by family and community fragmentation. To learn more, call CAI at 617-524-6378, or go to http://www.tribal-rhythms.org.
The Tribal Rhythms Community Partnership provides professional development, curriculum workshops, and residency programs to 16 Boston area OST programs. The project helps after-school staff use the Tribal Rhythms curriculum as a thematic framework for organizing activities and techniques that help children develop positive behavior. The project provides an early intervention violence prevention strategy that helps children build self-esteem and confidence, resolve conflicts peacefully, develop leadership and critical-thinking skills, and learn to express themselves through performing and visual arts. A recent series of workshops at Hawthorne Youth & Community Center in Roxbury helped to strengthen community-building and Peace-making skills for HYCC children ages 5-12. For more information about TRCP, call CAI at 617-524-6378 or go to http:www.tribal-rhythms.org/trcp.html.
The Partnership to Achieve Whole School Change:
The Partnership's Mini-Residencies at Boston's Charles Taylor and Charles Sumner Elementary Schools wrapped up in mid-March. This program helped four classroom teachers use Tribal Rhythms® and Second Step® to teach their students social skills that would enhance both teaching and learning. In each classroom, artist/educators modeled the teaching of empathy, the first step in controlling impulses and aggressive behavior. Activities used elements of both curricula and included a variety of interactive performing arts activities. CAI staff and the teachers and students served felt that the residency was too short, but, despite the residency's brevity, teacher evaluations showed the following successes. Partnership staff successfully modeled how teachers could effectively teach Second Step lessons within the framework of the Tribal Rhythms program. Tribal Rhythms' drama activities prepared students to understand and express emotions using speech and writing. The residency engaged more of the student's cognitive, emotional, and physical ways of knowing, and this allowed them to feel safe enough to become more excited about school and learning.
Board of Directors:
Patricia Landry, long time CAI Board Member and Clerk, is Director of the Native American Community Headstart. Pat recently received the Gwen Morgan Emerging Leader Award from the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children. Congratulations to Pat for this honoring of her long service in early childhood education! We are also happy to announce the addition of two new members to CAI's Board of Directors: Christine Sigman of Endeca Technologies and Rick Lusignea of Foster-Miller, Inc. We look forward to putting their many talents to work at CAI in the coming months.
CommunityWorks
CAI is part of CommunityWorks, a cooperative fundraising effort among 32 grass roots organizations committed to finding immediate and long-range solutions to social problems. Supporting CW through workplace payroll contributions is like investing in a whole portfolio of social justice and economic change. Check out CW's website for a list of member groups, and don't miss the 'back by popular demand' Wendy Liebman Comedy Benefit for CW at the Regent Theater, Arlington on June 11. http://www.communityworks.com
Volunteer Opportunities & Internships:
CAI needs volunteers to help with office administration, grants development, and program support. If you have a few hours, or a day a week, and you would like to help out with long or short term tasks such as on-line research, data entry, program mailings or phone calls, give us a call at 617-524-6378. CAI Internships offer college and graduate students and opportunity to learn and develop their skills in marketing, public relations, grants development, management, and program development. Check out Internships on our website at http://www.tribal-rhythms.org/intern.html. or, call Susan at 617-524-6378.
Thank You:
Thanks to the fabulous volunteers who have donated their time and energy to help at CAI since the beginning of 2009 including: Liz Elia & Carlos Bruna, Natalie Chudacoff, Srikanth DeVireddy, Harihar Gangadharan, Anthony Jackson, Sara Keddy, Julia Martin, and Alex Menjivar. Special thanks to Ty dePass for designing the beautiful flyer for our Spring Wine-tasting event, and to all of the CAI's Board members who helped with fundraising events, website development, CAI hours at CommunityWorks, and countless other tasks! Thanks to CommunityWorks, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, for supporting of CAI's general operations and programming this year! Thanks to Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP, Jason Fitzgerald, Esq. and Patrick J. Concannon, Esq. for pro-bono services in CAI's legal, trademark, & publishing activities.
And a GIANT thanks to all of the generous individuals who contributed to CAI's Annual Appeal or contributed to specific programs in the past year:
CAI NewsNotes is a quarterly e-communication to let CAI Core Community members and friends know about news, program successes, and upcoming activities. Please let us know if your e-mail address changes so we can keep you up-to-date on our list.
Phone: 617-524-6378 E-mail: cai@tribal-rhythms.org
Fax: 617-522-7122 Website: http://www.tribal-rhythms.org
CAI News Notes April-May, 2009
Upcoming Events & Announcements:
• CAI's Spring Wine-tasting Event, Mon., April 27, 6:00-8:00 PM
• Peace Drum Project Annual Awards & Celebration, Tues., June 2,
5:00-7:00 PM at Julia Martin House in Jamaica Plain
• CAI Board of Directors Meeting, Weds., June 10, 7:00 PM
Spring Wine Tasting Event:
Join us for a fantastic evening of fabulous fragrances, full-bodied flavors, festive fun - and a great way to welcome the warmer weather. Support CAI by attending this fun fundraiser on Monday, April 27 in Doyle's Back Room, 3484 Washington St., Jamaica Plain. Suggested donation is $25. Space is limited. RSVP, 617-524-6378.
The Peace Drum Project:
Our teen participants are working with a wonderful group of elders from Julia Martin House and from several other locations around Jamaica Plain. We are all looking forward to reading the elder's stories, and to our end-of-year celebration of the teens and elders. This year several exhibits will feature artwork from the project! Following an intensive printmaking residency with Susan Thompson at AAMARP Studios, we are working on a print and banner exhibit in addition to the drums and stories this year.
Mark your calendars for the Peace Drum Annual Awards Celebration from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2 at Julia Martin House. After this event, an exhibit of the drums and the elder's stories will be on display at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick St., from June 3 - July 6, 2009. Our community partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will conclude with the teens' work being included in the Community Creations Exhibit opening on Friday, June 12. In the meantime, you can check out last year's drums and the elder's stories at http://www.tribal-rhythms.org/drum_exhibit.html.
Many thanks to our funders including: The Janey Fund, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, Boston Cultural Council, the John H. and H. Naomi Tomforhde Foundation, and many generous individual donors. If you have time to volunteer at our final event, or if you wish to sponsor a youth in the project, call Susan at 617-524-6378.
Tribal Rhythms® Touring & Residency Programs:
Residency at the Doran Elementary School in Fall River: On April 17, the Tribal Rhythms Residency at the Doran School in Fall River came to a dramatic end with students performing The Story of the Weakest and Strongest in a fitting end to this year's residency. Doran School Principal, Maria Pontes, and observers from the Massachusetts Cultural Council called the residency "a highly successful program." Fourth graders and their teachers were the residency's primary focus, and they played the starring roles in The Story of the Weakest and Strongest before an audience of fifth graders, teachers and specialists, parents, and school administrators. Tribal Rhythms Program Artists were thrilled by the students' accomplishments. The outcome demonstrated that the residency's professional development workshops really helped teachers use students' arts experiences to enhance language arts instruction and student literacy. CAI thanks the Doran School and the MCC Creative Schools Program for the opportunity to provide this rich arts experience for children in Fall River.
The Tribal Rhythms Touring Company has had a very busy year, presenting programs in 25 Massachusetts cities and towns so far this year including: Abington, Arlington, Attleboro, Boston (8 neighborhoods,) Brookline, Braintree, Chelsea, Cambridge, Cohasset, Fall River, Holden, Hudson, Lexington, Lowell, Lynn, Reading, Rochester, Sharon, Sterling, Tyngsborough, Wareham, Weymouth, Wilbraham, Woburn, and Worcester. Programs in schools, community settings and housing developments have included performances, workshops, and residencies at various locations.
Tribal Rhythms touring programs help schools and after-school programs strengthen their sense of community and help children learn the values of caring, cooperation and respect. Activities use the Arts to help schools address a range of issues from bullying and cliques to empowering children with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Tribal Rhythms is FUN, but it is also one of CAI's key tools for addressing some of today's most urgent problems created by family and community fragmentation. To learn more, call CAI at 617-524-6378, or go to http://www.tribal-rhythms.org.
The Tribal Rhythms Community Partnership provides professional development, curriculum workshops, and residency programs to 16 Boston area OST programs. The project helps after-school staff use the Tribal Rhythms curriculum as a thematic framework for organizing activities and techniques that help children develop positive behavior. The project provides an early intervention violence prevention strategy that helps children build self-esteem and confidence, resolve conflicts peacefully, develop leadership and critical-thinking skills, and learn to express themselves through performing and visual arts. A recent series of workshops at Hawthorne Youth & Community Center in Roxbury helped to strengthen community-building and Peace-making skills for HYCC children ages 5-12. For more information about TRCP, call CAI at 617-524-6378 or go to http:www.tribal-rhythms.org/trcp.html.
The Partnership to Achieve Whole School Change:
The Partnership's Mini-Residencies at Boston's Charles Taylor and Charles Sumner Elementary Schools wrapped up in mid-March. This program helped four classroom teachers use Tribal Rhythms® and Second Step® to teach their students social skills that would enhance both teaching and learning. In each classroom, artist/educators modeled the teaching of empathy, the first step in controlling impulses and aggressive behavior. Activities used elements of both curricula and included a variety of interactive performing arts activities. CAI staff and the teachers and students served felt that the residency was too short, but, despite the residency's brevity, teacher evaluations showed the following successes. Partnership staff successfully modeled how teachers could effectively teach Second Step lessons within the framework of the Tribal Rhythms program. Tribal Rhythms' drama activities prepared students to understand and express emotions using speech and writing. The residency engaged more of the student's cognitive, emotional, and physical ways of knowing, and this allowed them to feel safe enough to become more excited about school and learning.
Board of Directors:
Patricia Landry, long time CAI Board Member and Clerk, is Director of the Native American Community Headstart. Pat recently received the Gwen Morgan Emerging Leader Award from the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children. Congratulations to Pat for this honoring of her long service in early childhood education! We are also happy to announce the addition of two new members to CAI's Board of Directors: Christine Sigman of Endeca Technologies and Rick Lusignea of Foster-Miller, Inc. We look forward to putting their many talents to work at CAI in the coming months.
CommunityWorks
CAI is part of CommunityWorks, a cooperative fundraising effort among 32 grass roots organizations committed to finding immediate and long-range solutions to social problems. Supporting CW through workplace payroll contributions is like investing in a whole portfolio of social justice and economic change. Check out CW's website for a list of member groups, and don't miss the 'back by popular demand' Wendy Liebman Comedy Benefit for CW at the Regent Theater, Arlington on June 11. http://www.communityworks.com
Volunteer Opportunities & Internships:
CAI needs volunteers to help with office administration, grants development, and program support. If you have a few hours, or a day a week, and you would like to help out with long or short term tasks such as on-line research, data entry, program mailings or phone calls, give us a call at 617-524-6378. CAI Internships offer college and graduate students and opportunity to learn and develop their skills in marketing, public relations, grants development, management, and program development. Check out Internships on our website at http://www.tribal-rhythms.org/intern.html. or, call Susan at 617-524-6378.
Thank You:
Thanks to the fabulous volunteers who have donated their time and energy to help at CAI since the beginning of 2009 including: Liz Elia & Carlos Bruna, Natalie Chudacoff, Srikanth DeVireddy, Harihar Gangadharan, Anthony Jackson, Sara Keddy, Julia Martin, and Alex Menjivar. Special thanks to Ty dePass for designing the beautiful flyer for our Spring Wine-tasting event, and to all of the CAI's Board members who helped with fundraising events, website development, CAI hours at CommunityWorks, and countless other tasks! Thanks to CommunityWorks, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, for supporting of CAI's general operations and programming this year! Thanks to Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP, Jason Fitzgerald, Esq. and Patrick J. Concannon, Esq. for pro-bono services in CAI's legal, trademark, & publishing activities.
And a GIANT thanks to all of the generous individuals who contributed to CAI's Annual Appeal or contributed to specific programs in the past year:
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