Media
A.C.T.I.O.N. in the Daily News
A story in the Daily News about the Bronx's First Annual Youth Film Festival which was organized by Pioneer participants and held at Cortona Park this past summer.
A.C.T.I.O.N. in the San Antonio Express News
An article in the San Antonio Express-News about the Rebel group's trip to San Antonio Texas this summer to collaborate with local youth on community arts projects.
A.C.T.I.O.N. in Bay St. Louis (YouTube video - requires Flash)
WLOX News covered the Pioneer's collaboration in Mississippi with Bay St. Louis High School students in the summer of 2006.
A.C.T.I.O.N. on Bronx News 12 (YouTube video - requires Flash)
Bronx News 12 featured Pioneer staff and participants talking about their experiences in New Orleans and Mississippi, Summer 2006.
NPR Piece (A.C.T.I.O.N. on NPR) (.mp3 audio file, 11.3 Mb)
Hear A.C.T.I.O.N. on NPR's "Beyond the Bay".
A.C.T.I.O.N. on A & E (.mov QuickTime movie, 11.3 Mb)
An interview with DreamYard Co-Director Jason Duchin, A.C.T.I.O.N. Project Director Tanya Gallo on A & E, and two Pioneer participants that first aired in the winter of 2004.
A.C.T.I.O.N. Documentary (YouTube video - requires Flash) A short documentary about The A.C.T.I.O.N. Project's first summer created by Salty Features. The documentary follows the growth of the program and its first participants during its inauguration in the summer of 2004.
"From the program I learn how to work & cooperate with a group of people in which together we build a community & family-like bond. I think that it is a great thing because aside from being part of my real home family, church, & school, I also belong to a unque group; the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project."
- a 16 year old A.C.T.I.O.N. Project Participant
The DreamYard A.C.T.I.O.N. Project is a 4-year arts activism and youth development program for Bronx teenagers. Its mission is to develop young people as effective social leaders and active civic participants through challenging artistic projects. The A.C.T.I.O.N. Project holds a unique position in New York City as one of the only long-term artistic programs designed to support the critical social, developmental, and intellectual needs of urban youth. Projects challenge participants to work together in a positive, supportive environment that promotes respect and empathy for one's peers, mentors, and external community, in addition to problem solving through a diversity of ideas.
A.C.T.I.O.N. is held over a 4 week summer intensive and 25 Saturdays, Oct-May. Participants are guided by a strong team of teaching artists and staff. The relationships between participants and teaching artists are key to A.C.T.I.O.N.'s success. Participants begin the program as graduating 8th graders. A.C.T.I.O.N.'s core values and skill building activities prepare them for the middle school transition and the high school experience; the program enables them to be open and become social leaders, take on greater academic challenges, and have the confidence to participate in school activities and pursue leadership opportunities. Participants learn skills in theater, visual art, film/video, and poetry in concert with state and national education standards, and they perform/display their work throughout the city, sites include: Sotheby's, Scholastic Theater, Lehman College, The Bronx Museum, and at Bronx street festivals.
Partners
The Point
Starting in the fall of 2007, the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project’s year-long Saturday programming will be based at The Point. The Point Community Development Corporation is a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
During the summer of 2007, the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project’s Rebel group worked with San Antonio teens from the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s T.A.P.P. Program. The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization located in the heart of San Antonio's west side. The Guadalupe is the largest community-based, multi-disciplinary organization in the United States.
StoryCorps
During the summer of 2007, the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project’s Pioneer group worked with StoryCorps to interview each other and members of the community and used the interviews to inform their summer projects. Now the newest participants of A.C.T.I.O.N. will interview the Pioneers at some point in the fall. StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record one another's stories in sound.
KID smART
During the summer of 2006, the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project's Pioneer cohort worked with 8-15 year olds in the 7th Ward at a summer camp run by KID smART, a New Orleans based nonprofit created to teach positive life skills to children through the performing and visual arts.
Vassar College
Vassar College welcomed the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project Rebels cohort onto their campus for two weeks of A.C.T.I.O.N.’s Summer 2006 intensive program and plans to continue hosting A.C.T.I.O.N. cohorts in following summers.
Lehman College
Lehman College has served DreamYard as a longstanding partner, co-hosting the Region 1 Arts Festival, bi-yearly poetry slam performances, an annual staff and artists retreat, and many other performances and celebrations throughout the year. Lehman provides a generous portion of space for the ACTION Project, which is based at Lehman during the summer.
Bronx Charter School for the Arts
A.C.T.I.O.N.’s Rebel cohort was based at Bronx Charter School for the Arts for their 2006-07 yearlong programming. Bronx Charter School for the Arts is a public charter school founded on the principle that arts education is a catalyst for the academic and social success of all students. The school continues to be a support and resource to A.C.T.I.O.N.
New Settlement Apartments- College Access Center
New Settlement Apartments- College Access Center offers college preparatory resources to A.C.T.I.O.N. participants, including college trips, meetings with admissions representatives, test preparation, personal essay writing workshops and financial aid assistance.
Other Partners
Each One Teach One
Children’s Aid Society
Imagenation
Wave Hill
Pregones
Favela Rising Outreach
Kids Camera New Orleans
LAByrinth Theater Company
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Youth Channel
New Orleans Slow Foods Chapter
Participating Performance Venues
Angel Orensanz Foundation
Bowery Poetry Club
Culture Project
Nuyorican Poet's Café
Scholastic Festival
Sotheby’s
Funders
The Altman Foundation
The Cricket Island Foundation
The Joy Family Foundation
The Lily Auchincloss Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Youth and Community Development
The Overbrook Foundation
The Stranahan Foundation
Taconic Foundation, JPMorgan Private Bank
Theodore Luce Charitable Trust, JPMorgan Private Bank
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