Governor’s Service Awards, 2009

Here we are being honored as one of three finalists for the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter partnership award that honors outstanding service learning collaborations between an institute of higher education and a community service organization.  A great time was had by all!!

Telling It COPE Celebration

You Are Invited to A Celebration of the Creative Endeavors of the Students of
Telling It C.O.P.E.
Thursday, May 21st 1-2pm
COPE School
1055 Cornell
Ypsilanti 48197
Telephone; 734-547-0419
COPE helps students having difficulty in traditional schools to experience success in academics and conflict management enabling them to achieve positive goals in the home, school, and community.

Facebooking

The students of our core course, Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression, have created a facebook page!  In it find pictures, videos, and posts by participants.  Pretty neat.

Final Telling It Celebrations!

Telling It Teens and Remix will be struttin their stuffs on Tuesday April 21st at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti from 5-6:30 PM!  It’s free and there’s food!
Please come and see what we’re up to .  .  .come and support our artists . . . come and say hi!

Intergenerational Theatre Performance

Seniors and students from the RCCTC’s Intergenerational Theatre Program have been invited to perform their interactive piece, “Senior Moments” in Ann Arbor’s Turner Senior Resource Center!  The event will celebrate Turner’s volunteers.
This Friday afternoon, we’ll be struttin’ our stuff for a new audience, and hopefully starting some interesting dialogue on age discrimination.

Telling It Celebrations!!

“Telling It Kids and Telling It Teens will be sharing their work on Tuesday, December 16th from 5-7pm at the Riverside Arts Center 76 North Huron Street, Ypsilanti 48197.  Children and youth ages 6-22 from SOS Community Services and the Ozone House Drop In Center will be showcasing their art and creative writing on the [...]

Wait–who else is running?

A few weeks ago the Americans for the Arts Action Fund released a Congressional Arts Report Card for 2007 to inform voters of how their elected officials have performed in promoting or demoting public funding for the arts.  The full report can be found here.  Highlights include:

Support for the arts is growing
Support for the arts [...]

Bragging Rights

The results of our surveys are in.  It’s conclusive; we’re making very positive change in the community.  Some very encouraging high points:
Percentages of youth who, “because of this program” . . .

Want to attend college “more” or “much more”:  78%
Enjoy attending school “more” or “much more”: 58.5%
Are successful in school “more” or “much more”:  56.1%
Want [...]

DJ is our new artist of the month!!

DJ has been part of the Telling It program (both in Kids and at COPE) since 2003. Nicknamed “Little Langston,” his commitment to writing and creative engagement is inspiring to his peers. As Telling It Coordinator, Deb Gordon Gurfinkel says “I’m seeing DJ blossom into a leader!”
Congratulations, DJ!

Artists Outnumber Atheletes in Beijing

BEIJING—For every athlete competing in the Olympic games in Beijing, there will be two artists performing or showing work, reports Bloomberg.
Reports artinfo.com. Not that China has upheld many of the tenets of community-based arts in these games, but it’s still good to see art appreciated. It’s too bad NBC doesn’t show us any [...]