The SWAY (Seniors Weaving Arts with Youth), a community dance/theatre program is a collaborative between artist (Kairos Dance Theatre) and social service entity (NORC: Home for a Lifetime!). The program blends art, elders and youth in an intergenerational dance/theater series over 4-6 weeks culminating in a community celebratory performance.
Opportunity Partners provides services to people with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Based on their success in providing high quality arts experiences, we want to provide Upstream Arts workshops for our clients.
Wilder Foundation will enable 267 low-income youth and elders to participate in the arts by providing tickets to performances, transportation, and a drum residency.
Up to 30 adults with Down syndrome will use puppetry, music, and performance to learn techniques for coping with stress through the Monkey Mind Pirates program, created by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz.
In a 3-day retreat, Hmong women and girls will write their stories, experience different writing and storytelling styles, create writing projects, and network with established Hmong women writers.
Lyngblomsten to provide a year of arts events workshops for older adults and intergenerational community members designed to enhances lives, ignite creativity, and drive passion toward living full, whole lives. Workshops in visual arts, writing, vocal music, and storytelling will happen on site as well as provide funds for off-site transportation to arts events.
Artful Living at Lyngblomsten: Arts for Every Season of Life, brings fine arts events, workshops by resident artists, and celebrations of creativity for Lyngblomsten older adults and community members. Through this request, they are introducing two new seasons of art to complete 2011 and continuing two art partnerships from previous seasons.
This one week project is designed for 60 emotionally disturbed students and will increase their exposure to dance, introduce them to a new form of communication, and provide them with a team experience.
Phoenix Alternatives's Job Enactment Program utilizes Upstream Arts a theater group providing instructional coaching in career and job development scenarios to help secure community jobs for clients with disabilities.
