Brooklyn Academy of Music Youth and Community Initiatives

Brooklyn Academy of Music will provide arts based educational programs to at risk students and their families in Brooklyn, NY. Educational programs such as Brooklyn Reads, a literacy project for children in Brooklyn schools and their families; the screening series, a film literacy program for high school students; Shakespeare Teaches, an in-school arts residency program for students and teachers are provided in workshops that focus on reading improvement and enhancing the appreciation of arts performance or film. Brooklyn Academy of Music's goal is to improve the educational achievement of students through the use of arts programs. In addition, BAM will collaborate with public and private groups, such as the Bedford Stuyvesant restoration Corporation to develop a community initiative. The performance measures of this program include increased understanding of performance and improved reading skills of the participants.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)will work with local and national community arts organizations to develop programming after-school and on weekends focused on educating at-risk Brooklyn young people about the intricacies of the criminal and juvenile justice system through literary and cinema arts. A partnership will be developed with the Redhook Youth Court in Brooklyn specifically focusing on the youthful offenders. BAM has extensive experience in creative education program development and is currently investigating opportunities with partners such as the Brooklyn Arts Council, Redhook Community Justice Center, and Sundance Institute. Programming already developed for previous years that will be extremely relevant in this context is a joint film-literary program centered on Reginald Rose's classic examination of courtroom deliberation and the role of the justice system in American society, 12 Angry Men. As part of the program, students will receive and read a copy of the play, watch Sidney Lumet's cinematic adaptation starring Henry Fonda, and participate in multiple in-school workshops offering extensive analysis led by BAM teaching artists. In order to make this experience an intensely personal one and encourage students to truly grapple with the themes central to 12 Angry Men, the program will also require participants to write scenes and monologues inspired by the work, which they would then act out with teaching artists. NCA/NCF