Culture for Change

October 7, 2010 - Cambridge, MA

Paper Picker Press ConferencePresenter: Klare Shaw

Culture for Change

• Arts – social change – youth development

• Team: artist, youth worker, OST representative / 10 week residency

• Training, grant support, resource library, networking, artist residencies, celebratory events

• 26 organizations in Boston

• 145 youth ages 11-21 from Sept-Dec, 2008; 325 youth Jan-June, 2010.

• CfC partners with institutions and individuals for training:

Cultural Agents / Paper Picker Press

amplifyme

BCYF/Orchard Gardens Community Center

Bird Street Community Center sponsored by GOTCHA

Boston Asian: Youth Essential Service

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Family Service of Greater Boston

Freedom House, Inc.

Hawthorne Youth and Community Center, Inc.

Hispanic Office of Planning & Evaluation, Inc. (HOPE)

Maverick Landing Community Services, Inc.

Medicine Wheel Productions

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)

Project HIP-HOP

Sociedad Latina

South Boston Community Health Center

St. Stephen's Youth Programs

The Center for Teen Empowerment

The Hyde Square Task Force

The Young People's Project

Catholic Charities Teen Center at St. Peter’s

Greater Boston Nazarene and Compassionate Center

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion

The Theater Offensive

The URBANO Project

West End House Boys and Girls Club

CfC grantees

Culture for Change Goals

Youth Development: youth voice, self expression, self-discovery, leadership

Artistic Expression:  High standard of artistic quality

Social Change:  Citizens who able to understand and stand-up for what they believe

Overall goalDevelopment of confident and tolerant young citizens able to stand-up for what they believe, and express themselves in a variety of media

Assumptions

• Improvement of teaching and mentoring skills

• Enhancement and reinforcement of OST programs

• Youth find their own voices and become

empowered and engaged in their communities

• Youth express themselves creatively with age appropriate activities

• Youth experience in-depth and varied artistic opportunities

• Youth create art that reflects upon real issues in the city, country, and world

• Teams utilize skills and collaborative opportunities to explore/promote

social change concepts

Arts-based Youth Development Approach to Social Change

BYAEP’s Framework for Outcomes in Youth Arts Programs:

www.byaep.com