Workshop Mentioned in "Guild Notes"
San Francisco, CA --- May, 2010 In the Spring 2010 edition of the National Guild for Community Arts Education “Guild Notes” the Workshop was mentioned twice. First, it was noted that on April 13, Arts Advocacy Day, Tom DeCaigny – Executive Director, Jessica Mele – Deputy Director and Brian Wiedenmeier – Development Director, were all in attendance. Workshop staff participated in the day’s activities which included legislative visits to Bay Area representatives. As part of a coalition promoting an arts education agenda, Workshop staff discussed the current restructuring of the nation’s education funding and formats including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Race to the Top, and the Arts In Education program.
Second, the “People And Schools” section highlighted the Workshop’s recent hire, Melissa West. Melissa is currently working as the Workshop’s Advocacy Campaign Manager. Using the Workshop’s 9 point Advocacy Plan formulated with help from Eric Friedenwald-Fishman and the Metropolitan Group, Melissa and the Workshop are forging ahead with creating a strong arts education coalition base in San Francisco to accomplish goals set on a local, regional and national scale.
Learn more about the National Guild For Community Arts Education or become a member.
Subversives Unite
San Francisco, CA --- April 6, 2010 In the April 2010 Issue of Theatre Bay Area Magazine Online (the Monthly Theatre News Magazine published by Theatre Bay Area), Performing Arts Workshop's Deputy Director, Jessica Mele, is quoted in part of the article's discussion of the emerging prevalence of the teaching artist profession. The article focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area's unique ability to support and promote teaching artists. To read the full article, please follow the link below.
Subversives Unite by Sabrina Klein
Performing Arts Workshop: 45 years of promoting social justice
San Francisco, CA --- March 25, 2010 Performing Arts Workshop's Deputy Director, Jessica Mele, was published as a guest writer for the Improve Group's March newsletter. The article addresses the issues of access and empowerment, and how the Workshop as endeavored to achieve these goals in its 45 year history. To read the full article, please follow the link below.
Performing Arts Workshop: 45 years of promoting social justice
http://www.theimprovegroup.com/ImproveGrooveMar2010.htm#article2
Tom DeCaigny to Speak at Meeting with NEA Chairman, Rocco Landesman
San Francisco, CA --- March 11, 2010 Performing Arts Workshop's Executive Director, Tom DeCaigny, has been invited to speak at the March 17th San Francisco stop on NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's "Art Works" tour. Chairman Landesman has been invited to San Francisco at the behest of the James Irvine Foundation and foundation CEO Jim Canales. This visit is part of a country wide tour to learn how the arts work in communities across the nation. The guiding principles of Chairman Landesman's "Art Works" program, include a particular focus on the role of the arts in education and in creating and sustaining livable, vibrant urban centers.
Learn More About "Art Works"
http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?page_id=79
Read the NEA press release on Chairman Rocco Landesman's Visit to California
http://www.arts.gov/news/news10/california-schedule.html
Win a Free Video by Storytellers For Good!
San Francisco, CA --- March 5, 2010 Performing Arts Workshop's video - Igniting Young Minds Through The Arts - which is featured on our homepage and YouTube channel, was mentioned on the Mission Minded blog. Sotrytellers for Good, who in cooperation with Mission Minded produced the Workshop video, are offering a FREE video to 5 San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits. For more information about the contest and to read the full blog post, follow the link below.
Win a Free Video by Storytellers for Good!
http://mission-minded.com/blog/?p=133
Reach At-Risk and Underserved Youth Through Performing Arts
San Francisco, CA --- March 1, 2010 Performing Arts Workshop's Executive Director, Tom DeCaigny, was interviewed for a Youth Today article about reaching at-risk and underserved youth through the performing arts. He is quoted as saying, "A lot of a-risk young people want something real...Performing arts give them a sense of purpose and humanity, as well as tools for critical thinking and examining their own lives in relationship to the world."
To read the full article, follow the link below.
http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=3827
ARISE 2009 Annual Performance Report
San Francisco, CA --- February 9, 2010 The 2009 Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education (ARISE) report has been published on IssueLab. This report describes findings from the second year of research. You can read the report on IssueLab or download it from the Workshop's Resource Center by following the links below.
Resource Center
http://www.performingartsworkshop.org/pages/resources_administrators.html#14
Excellent Website Content: Testimonials
San Francisco, CA --- January 28, 2010 John Kenyon, Nonprofit Technology Educator & Strategist, highlights a number of organizations who are using testimonials to highlight the quality of their work. Featured is the Performing Arts Workshop's new video "Igniting Young Minds Through The Arts." You can read the full article by following the link below.
Where the Wild Things Are: Teaching Dance in Urban Schools
San Francisco, CA --- November 27, 2009 Workshop Artist Rachel Costello posted this article to the blog Teacher, Revised which describes her experience teaching preschool in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. To read the full post, please follow the link below.
http://teacherrevised.org/2009/11/27/where-the-wild-things-are-teaching-dance-in-urban-schools/
Gloria Unti's Retirement Party Covered by San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, CA --- November 11, 2009 Chronicle writer and former Workshop board member Leah Garchick wrote about attending Gloria Unti's retirement party, which was held at the Workshop on November 5th. To read the full article, please follow the link below.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/11/DD8I1AG17O.DTL
Workshop Out of School Reviewed by Youth Today
San Francisco, CA --- August 27, 2009 Out of school time has received increased attention from researchers, educators, and funders as a venue where significant learning takes place. Performing Arts Workshop’s Artists-in-Communities program is a leader in providing high quality arts programming to youth through their work in existing afterschool programs, community centers, and juvenile halls. Their recent publication The Workshop Out of School, demonstrates the ways in which arts learning provides young people with the opportunity for inquiry and creative expression, which are key ingredients to the development of problem-solving skills youth need in order to succeed in the 21st century.
This guide is especially written for teaching artists, arts providers, and after-school administrators who are interested in learning a clear and collaborative process for providing quality performing arts instruction while negotiating the unique challenges that present themselves in out of school time. The contributions of Performing Arts Workshop teaching artists offer a thorough examination of arts engagement in alignment with essential youth development principles. The guide is divided by art discipline including an overview, instructions on how to plan a quality curriculum, and how to negotiate behavior and content management within the class.
To read the article on the Youth Today website, follow the link below.
http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=3518
Rahman Jamaal Featured in UBO Magazine
San Francisco, CA --- July 16, 2009 Workshop Artist Rahman Jamaal was featured in UBO Magazine - Underground Beat Online, is a blog which looks at underground and independent music, art, apparel, clubs, literature and more. The July 2009 edition discusses Rahman Jamaal's voyage into music, and how he uses his art form to strengthen communities and teach youth critical thinking skills. To read the full article, follow the link below.
http://ubomag.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/rahmanjamaal/
Workshop Receives $50,000 NEA Grant!
San Francisco, CA --- July 8, 2009 Performing Arts Workshop was one of 37 San Francisco organizations to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant Program. As the only arts education agency in California to receive funding and just one of 28 national arts education organizations, the Workshop is proud to be representing the importance of arts education in the NEA program. To read more about the grants and other organizations who received money, please follow the links below.
- July 8, 2009 San Francisco Arts Commission Press Release
- July 11, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Article
- National Endowment for the Arts List of Grantees
Tom DeCaigny podcast on IssueLab
San Francisco, CA --- July 8, 2009 In this month's IssueLab podcast, Stacy Kessler talks to three people who have dedicated themselves to arts education, asking them about the role that research plays in developing the field, the importance of evaluation, and the future of arts ed. Gusts include the Workshop's own Executive Director - Tom DeCaigny, Manager of Arts Education at Americans for the Arts - John Abodeely, and Associate Director of Art Education at School of the Art Institute Chicago - Therese Quinn. To listen, follow the link below. The podcast is listed on the right hand side.
http://enews.issuelab.org/07_2009.html
The Workshop Qualifies as Quality
San Francisco, CA --- July 1, 2009 The Workshop was recently cited as being a well-designed program in the recent Project Zero (part of Harvard's Graduate School of Education) publication entitled Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education. Both our exceptional programs and our best practices guide Lessons From the Workshop are mentioned in the document. To read the full paper, follow the link below.
The Workshop on Inside Groove
San Francisco, CA --- June 14, 2009 The Improve Group congratulates the Workshop on their recent publication in IssueLab's Arts Education CloseUp which provides a “special collection of Arts Education case studies and evaluations [that] reveals the lessons, benefits, and pitfalls of existing and past projects, providing vital information for program staff at organizations running their own Arts Education projects.”
http://www.theimprovegroup.com/weblog/2009/06/congratulations _to_the_perform.html
The Workshop on Goliblogski: San Francisco arts and culture commentary by Emily Goligoski
San Francisco, CA --- June 12, 2009 Read about how the Workshop does good work in tough times, "helping students receive the education that they need and deserve – one that is rich in critical thinking, problem-solving, and fun.”
http://emilygoligoski.com/index.php/performing_arts_workshop/
Issue Lab Publishes Workshop 2008 Project ARISE (Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education) Evaluation Report
San Francisco, CA --- June 4, 2009 Issue Lab, an online forum for nonprofit research, recently published Performing Arts Workshop's 2008 Project ARISE Evaluation Report. Project ARISE specifically examines the affects of the Workshop's critical thinking and creative expression arts learning on special education populations. To read the full report, please follow the link below.
Performing Arts Workshop Program Literacy Work Highlighted
San Francisco, CA --- April 22, 2009 Amber Lamprecht, co-owner of the Language and Literacy clinic (LLC) and former Literacy Specialist with Performing Arts Workshop highlights her Literacy work with E.R. Taylor Elementary, a longstanding Workshop partner. Read the full story, "36 Hours to Change A Child's Life," by following the link.
Performing Arts Workshop Program Director, Jessica Mele, quoted in Huffingtonpost.com blog
San Francisco, CA --- April 13, 2009 In part two of actress and writer Lucia Brawley's blog post entitled - Mordecai's Metamorphosis: Why Arts Education is a Matter of Social Justice and Why it will Save the World - she quoted from an email Workshop Program Director, Jessica Mele, sent in response to part one. To read the full article please follow the link below.
Part I
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucia-brawley/mordecais-metamorphosis-w_b_185903.html
Part II
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucia-brawley/part-ii---mordecais-metam_b_186365.html
Performing Arts Workshop Connects to China through Alice Fong Yu Alternative
San Francisco, CA --- January 31, 2009 Alice Fong Yu Alternative is the first Chinese immersion school in the United States. A long time partner of the Workshop, Alice Fong Yu instated a Chinese Exchange Program in 2000 that is thriving today. To read more about Alice Fong Yu and its exemplary programming, please follow the link below.
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Tom DeCaigny Featured in the San Francisco Business Times
San Francisco, CA --- December 22, 2008 The San Francisco Business Times, a local industry paper focused on innovative business in the San Francisco Bay Area, featured the Workshop's Executive Director, Tom DeCaigny as part of its ongoing Nonprofit Profile series. To read the full article, please check out the PDF below or you can follow the link to the Business Times website.
Download the article: Nonprofit Profile Performing Arts Workshop: Tom DeCaigny, Executive Director
Link to the article: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/12/22/tidbits3.html
Tom DeCaingy Speaks to San Francisco's Art Budget Cuts on KALW's Your Call with Rose Aguilar
San Francisco, CA --- December 18, 2008 KALW's Your Call, a listener call in show hosted by Rose Aguilar chose the Starving Arts Budget as one of its topics. Tom DeCaigny, Workshop Executive Director was one of the three invited guests along with Marco Barricelli, Artistic Director Shakespeare in Santa Cruz and Nancy Gonchar, Deputy Director San Francisco Arts Commission. Please follow the link or download the audio file below to listen to the full program.
http://yourcallradio.blogspot.com/2008/12/your-call-121808-starving-arts-budgets.html
www.PerformingArtsWorkshop.org/media/YourCall121808.mp3
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John Kenyon - Nonprofit Technology Strategist Loves our Archives
San Francisco, CA --- October 27, 2008 In the month of October, the Workshop unveiled 43+ years of photo Archives. A number of community stakeholders were in attendance, including John Kenyon, a Nonprofit Technology Strategist who was part of the strategic planning process lead by Olive Grove Consulting. To read the full story, please follow the link below.
Performing Arts Workshop Unveils 43+ Years of Archive Photographs
San Francisco, CA --- October 22, 2008 Performing Arts Workshop held a major donor event to at which we unveiled our 43+ years of archive photographs. The culmination of a month long project led by the Development and Administrative Assistant, Devon Nandagiri, the archives describe a span of over 40 years and the different locations the Workshop has been within the city of San Francisco. Beginning at the Telegraph Hill Community Center, moving to the Buchanan YMCA, housed in a small studio in the Presidio, 20 years at the Fort Mason Center, and now located in the Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood, the Workshop's many transitions illustrates a path through history using the performing arts as a common language. To view photos from the archive, please follow the link below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/performingartsworkshop
Sensory Integration Disorders - Scott Phillips Blogs about the Workshop
San Francisco, CA --- October 13, 2008 Scott Phillips is an artist who has worked with Performing Arts Workshop for over seven years. He has studied a number of martial art and dance forms, but specializes in Northern Shaolin gongfu. Dedicated to studying Daoism, Chinese Traditional Medicine, and expounding his knowledge through teaching, Scott offers unique insight to the Workshop and our methodology. Recently, he attended a professional development workshop on Special Education youth with physical disabilities given by Pam Mele, an Early Childhood Education and Different Needs Specialist. Afterwards he blogged about the parallels he found through his experience with special needs youth. You can find the full text of his post here.
http://northstarmartialarts.com/blog1/?p=390
Dia Penning Reimagines Learning
San Francisco, CA --- October, 2008 Dia Penning, one of the Workshop's new Board Members, published an article in the Teaching Artist Journal about the San Francisco Superintendent of Schools, Carlos Garcia's, dedication to arts in the classroom. You can download the full text of the article as a pdf below. Dia is a social activist interested in developing arts learning to support social change. She is also a working textile artist and educator serving as the Art Education Funders Collaborative Program Director and Education Manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission. To read more about Dia, please follow this link.
Download: Reimagine Learning: Building a District on Arts Education
Fog City Journal Interview with Board President Peter Rothblatt
San Francisco, CA --- May 13, 2008 As a run up to the Workshop's Annual Event, The Mighty Fair, Board President Peter Rothblatt discusses how far the Workshop has come in 43 years. Peter, once a Teaching Artist with the Workshop, stresses our Mission to serve at-risk youth and foster critical thinking. To read the full story, please follow the link below.
KALW Radio with Carol Kocivar: Executive Director Tom DeCaigny discusses the Workshop’s ARISE project in Special Education classrooms
San Francisco, CA --- January, 2008 In the Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education (ARISE) project, the Workshop sees an exciting opportunity to build upon our success with the Artists-in-Schools curriculum model and to contribute to research on intensive, critical-thinking based, culturally competent arts programming as a way to improve the performance of Special Education students in urban public schools. ARISE is a four year joint partnership between the Workshop, the San Francisco Unified School District, and the U.S. Department of Education. For more information and to hear Tom DeCaigny, the Executive Director of the Workshop, discuss the project with Carol Kocivar, the Ombudsperson for Special Education with the San Francisco Unified School District, please follow the link below.
www.PerformingArtsWorkshop.org/media/Interview_DeCaigny.mp3
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