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Opportunities & Resources – May 17
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Celebrate Youth at these CYD Culminating Events
Spring Social
May 13 at 7pm
Celebrate with members of the Eliot School community as they share their creative spaces and their stories. Come enjoy a toast, art-making, and a few other surprises.
The Winter’s Tale
May 15 at 6:30pm
Actors’ Shakespeare Project and The Front Porch Arts Collective welcome you to a virtual reading of The Winter’s Tale, presented by an all-Black cast.
Imagine Nation
May 20 at 7:30pm – watch the recording
Express Yourself has planned a special invitation-only evening for EXYO kids and their families in the parking lot of the North Shore Music Theater. The show will also be streamed on their website for at-home audiences all around the world.
Concert View: Castle of Our Skins
May 27 at 7pm – watch the recording
Celebrate Black artistry through music and learn about important stories and figures in Black history in a special collaboration between Castle of Our Skins, Winsor Music, and Project STEP.
At the Table
May 30 at 4pm
A culminating concert of Boston Children’s Chorus’ season, Lift Every Voice: At the Table. reflects on the strength and love achieved through unity with investigation into what it means to belong in America.
See also – National Study on Adapting Culminating Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic
CYD Alums: Join us for The Art of Healing
Join Mass Cultural Council’s Creative Youth Development BIPOC Alumni Council on May 20 from 6-7:30pm (ET) for a night of healing, creation, and connection. We invite alumni from CYD organizations from around the country to create with us. As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, the Alumni Council wants to reflect on the importance of using one’s art as a way to prioritize the investment of one’s mental health. They hope for young artists to reconnect to their own artistic practices and to make connections with one another that go beyond this evening.
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Opportunities & Resources – May 3
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Attend a Forum on Youth Art, Power & Peace
A Youth-Led Virtual Forum on Building Community and Healing through Art Making
March 19, 2021, 3:30-5pm
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers and students to pivot to remote learning. In response, Mass Cultural Council began facilitating bi-weekly CYD Community Meetings to support the field during this new reality. We also co-hosted a series of forums on Remote Learning in Arts Education and Creative Youth Development alongside EdVestors and the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
Our next forum will be facilitated by youth members of the Bloomberg Arts Internship Alumni Advisory Council and Mass Cultural Council’s CYD BIPOC Alumni Council. Join us as we explore themes of community building; processing and healing from trauma; and addressing the socio-emotional challenges of the pandemic through the lens of art making.
Please note that Zoom information for the forum will be sent to registered attendees closer to the event.
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Register for Trauma and Arts-Centered Healing Workshops
An international World Health Organization study found that 70% of respondents had experienced at least one type of trauma in their lifetime (Magruder et al., 2016). Over the last year, trauma in the cultural community has become even more prevalent due to the long-term toxic stress of the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and the injustices of racial inequality.
Trauma disproportionately impacts communities of color and young people, who are often already living with inadequate resources and access to power. Given these impacts, Mass Cultural Council is offering two workshops focused on understanding trauma and supporting healing in our community. Led by Dr. Tasha Golden and Renée Watson, these sessions will focus on how the arts can support healing, share and amplify the experiences of trauma and healing, and help transform policies and structures that perpetuate inequities.
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