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