Intergenerational Projects
Urban Arts' innovative intergenerational arts collaborations involve students and senior citizens in the creation of professionally published Memory Books. Students from Technology, Arts and Sciences Studios (TASS); the Facing History School; and M.S. 131 take weekly trips to local senior centers. Seniors and students study and create photographs, conduct interviews, and experience both teaching and learning.
05 Feb 2009, 5:38 PM by alissa
Photographs from the first semester:
Josh shows Voni how to use the cameras
Learning to use the cameras
Portrait of our assistant director!
Clinton Senior Center Projects
05 Feb 2009, 5:25 PM by alissa
Students from Facing History HIgh School and the Clinton Senior Center, in Hell's Kitchen, worked together to create photographs that illustrate stories about their past and future. Each person chose a story from their past and a hope for their future to depict in a photograph.
Millie:
Memory: Millie remembered graduating from elementary school. She was very proud and her family gave her a bouquet of flowers.
Future: "I will be a millionare"
Mark:
Past: Mark remembered a memory from his childhood in Switzerland. While taking a long bike trip with his friends, Mark caught a ride up a mountain pass by holding on to the back of a truck. The rest of his friends did not see this happen and when they arrived at their destination hours after him, they thought he was a bike riding champion. To this day, he has never told them how he got up the mountain so quickly!
Future: Mark would like to study economics.
Check out the Senior Center Programs!
12 Dec 2008, 1:16 PM by Alice
Once a week, Teaching Artist Bami Adedoyin and TASS teacher Amy Piller bring 28 7th graders across the street to the Educational Alliance's Sirovich Senior Center during English class. Students and seniors learn how to read photos, interview each other, and take pictures illustrating their writing.
Teaching Artist Alissa Ambrose brings 5 high school juniors to Project FIND's Clinton Senior Center once a week during their photography studio class. They walk five long blocks in all kinds of weather to tell stories, look at pictures, and take photos with seniors.
Teaching Artist Laurie Krupp brings 10 MS 131 students who are learning English
to Hamilton Madison House's City Hall Senior Center once a week after school. The students and seniors are Chinese speakers, and they spend the class translating, learning each other's stories, taking pictures, and practicing English.
Stay tuned for updates!
- Meet the Filmmaker: Christina Guerra
- An Educator's Perspective on Ghetto Talks
- Meet the Filmmaker: Sotonye Douglas
- Hip Hop Master Class with Adesola Osakalumi at the Heritage School
- Multimedia Master Class at the Heritage School
- The Heritage School - Latin Dance Master Class
- NDHS Photography & Identity Zine Fall 2009
- Ghetto Talks: First In-school Screening!
- Ghetto Brothers: The Ghetto as a Badge of Pride
- MULTICULTURALISM AND DIVERSITY AT FACING HISTORY SCHOOL
