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Enter the name for this tabbed section: Bridging The Gap

Bridging the Gap Intergenerational LGBTQ Playbuilding Program

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Performance: November 10, 2012 @ 2 pm
The Center: 208 West 13th Street
Manhattan, New York


In New York City, LGBTQ people from different generations have had few opportunities to connect. They have splintered into age-segregated micro-communities, robbing them of opportunities to weave a common history and share strategies both have used to survive and thrive. Bridging the Gap is a community-based intergenerational theatre project designed to address this problem.
Enter the name for this tabbed section: Newtown Creek Celebration 2013
August 15, 2013 @ 3:30 p.m.
3:30 PM
McGolrick Park
Greenpoint, Brooklyn


Newtown Creek Celebration is a community-based visual and theater arts program that offers young people the opportunity to gain puppet-making, improvisation, and theater performance skills.

The project culminates in a community-wide celebration consisting of a procession of the puppets through the neighborhood to McGolrick Park and a performance of the original theater pieces created by the young people. Project objectives include: heightening awareness of environmental issues around Newtown Creek; encouraging stewardship to protect natural areas; building visual arts skills through puppet and mask-making; increasing teamwork through group theater-making; exposing youth to various ways an art project can be “greened”; and enhancing the quality of neighborhood life by offering an arts celebration that brings together different community sectors.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, both administered in Kings County by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). The program is offered as part of the North Brooklyn Development Corporation Summer Camp. Additional support provided by Everybody Act! Theater in Education & Communities
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Enter the name for this tabbed section: Our Play's the Thing Presents: The Shoe Show
Our Play's the Thing is a concentrated two-week theater program for adults over age 60, who will create an original 30 to 40 minute play. The inspiration for the play will be a physical object such as a box, a key, or a shoe. The group will investigate their associations to the object through activities like storytelling, improvisation and reflection to create scenes which incorporate the object as a thematic motif.

The project addresses key principles of Creative Aging:
  • supporting social engagement through the arts,
  • improving mastery of arts skills,
  • and promoting both physical and mental health.
Utilizing a physical object as inspiration has the added benefit of providing a tactile entry point to stimulating memory in older adults. The project will culminate in a public performance held at Young Israel of Forest Hills Senior League.

This program was made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. Funded under contract with the New York City Department for the Aging. Additional support provided by Everybody Act! Theater in Education & Communities
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Enter the name for this tabbed section: Newtown Creek Celebration

Newtown Creek Celebration: Puppet Parade and Pageant

August 23, 2012 @ 3:30 p.m.
3:30 PM
McGolrick Park
Greenpoint, Brooklyn


Newtown Creek Celebration is a community-based visual and theater arts program that offers young people the opportunity to gain puppet-making, improvisation, and theater performance skills.

The project culminates in a community-wide celebration consisting of a procession of the puppets through the neighborhood to McGolrick Park and a performance of the original theater pieces created by the young people. Project objectives include: heightening awareness of environmental issues around Newtown Creek; encouraging stewardship to protect natural areas; building visual arts skills through puppet and mask-making; increasing teamwork through group theater-making; exposing youth to various ways an art project can be “greened”; and enhancing the quality of neighborhood life by offering an arts celebration that brings together different community sectors.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, both administered in Kings County by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). The program is offered as part of the North Brooklyn Development Corporation Summer Camp. Additional support provided by Everybody Act! Theater in Education & Communities
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