Spotlight on Youth Art
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Proof Positive: Works from East Oakland School of the Arts
Exhibits Opens: July 24
Exhibits Closes: November 15
Our young people are consistently asked to prove themselves against their peers, in relation to institutions, their communities, and their personal dreams. These demands run parallel to a world fueled by images of war and economic crisis, fostering an environment of uncertainty, doubt, and faithlessness against its own young people's ability to create. What is our response to this world? What evidence do we leave behind? How do we prove ourselves in a time when city governments are systematically cutting educational funding and art programs?
Proof Positive is not only a collection of works created throughout EOSA's 2008/2009 school, but is also a re-contextualization of student and faculty work. This installation displays our focus on making arts learning visible through finished pieces, process documentation, and various forms of written reflection, in order to share our conversations with the greater public.
About EOSA: East Oakland School of the Arts, part of the Castlemont Community of Small Schools, is a small arts high located at the base of the Oakland Hills, in East Oakland. Its focus is on educational excellence, enrichment, and critical thinking through performing and visual arts. Through multi-level arts classes, and art-integration lessons, students develop a vocabulary to express their personal narrative, identity, history, and relationship to the greater community around them.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
World Savvy's Global Youth Media & Arts Festival 2009
Festival Celebration, Art Opening and Performances
Saturday, May 9 from 6-9PM, performances begin at 7PM
Free with a suggested donation of $5 (no one will be turned away)
Exhibit Opens: May 5
Exhibit Closes: June 5
Global education non-profit World Savvy is hosting a Global Youth Media & Arts Program (MAP) Festival Celebration. Over 500 students from 20 Bay Area public schools will be showcasing artwork and performances around the program theme of Immigration & Identity.
The Immigration & Identity MAP program helps teachers and their students examine this complex theme through workshops, field trips and work with local artists which uses the community as a classroom. Over four months, students create artwork and media to express their perspectives on Immigration and Identity and then showcase their work in a culminating visual and performing art festival at Zeum.
The most sustainable way to promote tolerance and peace, and mitigate the challenges diversity presents in communities, is through education and programs like the MAP that allow students to explore, develop and express their unique perspectives on immigration and diversity through the arts.
The MAP program has enjoyed tremendous success over the past five years in both San Francisco and New York City. Please join us on May 9 at Zeum from 6-9PM for our Festival Celebration showcasing youth visual and performing arts.
See World Savvy MAP youth in action as they explored ideas of Immigration and Identity with local teaching artists at our recent Jam Session.
For more information about the Global Youth Media & Arts Program, please contact Katina Papson at katina@worldsavvy.org.
For more information about World Savvy and it's other 3 programs, please visit www.worldsavvy.org or call 415.292.7421.
World Savvy: Think Beyond Your Borders
999 Sutter Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94109
Office: 415-292-7421
Fax: 415-614-9537
