City Parks Foundation SummerS days night run opening for this year, 400 New York City sixth graders and their teachers with the internationally acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma and friends including the Chamber Orchestra of the Knights and surprise guests. Beginning at 6:30 P.m. on 7 June on the day of SummerS Mainstage in Central Park, this evening of music, dance, art and stories entitled "night at the caravanserai: Tales of wonder" celebrates Silk Road connect, a silk road project pilot program in New York City public middle schools, Is to inspire passion-driven learning through the arts.
Under the direction of former Ballet star Damian Woetzel, is the performance of an imaginary caravanserai, cause a roadside Inn along the Silk Road, where travellers for a festival which collect stars are. In this impressive setting, Lil buck dancer, among other special guests will preside as the host, with appearances by singer Bobby McFerrin, author Jhumpa Lahiri and Jookin actor Bill Irwin. Sixth-grade students and teachers by Edward Bleeker JHS 185 in Queens, Frederick Douglass Academy III in the Bronx, Granville t. Woods MS 584 in Brooklyn and PS/MS 161 Pedro Albizu Campos school in Manhattan are accompanied cellist of music under the direction of Mike block and inspired by the exchange between cultures along the ancient Silk Road run.
"" I think that performing artists and teachers a common goal of parts: in a way, the unforgettable is for communication, transported, the audience, "Yo-Yo said Ma, silk road project founder and artistic director."Transformative learning remains active in students heads and connects to future experiences. I can not wait, join to share the students from our pilot schools and to celebrate what they in silk road connect by performance in Central Park have learned. I hope they will experience being part of something greater than yourself, and that she will always remember this adventure. "
Silk Road connect used inspired Arts integration passion-driven learning in the classroom and beyond. A central aspect of the concept is cooperation between teachers and teaching artists, the students visit in connect several aspects of their life and studies. In 2009, the Silk Road project took an invitation from the NYC Department of education link pilot Silk Road in several New York City public middle schools. The pilot two-year programme ends this year. However Silk Road will connect in New York City remain active and continue to teachers currently in the program and other educators within the Department of education support the professional development to offer Arts integration.
The Silk Road project has plans, a silk road connect Summer Institute at Harvard University, to introduce, with which it is connected. Having regard to the results of the pilot program in New York City, the Institute focuses on arts integration in schools and are open to educators and teaching artists regardless of their geographical location.
The "night at the caravanserai: Tales of wonder" performance is possible with support from Pershing Square Foundation, the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the arts and New York Community Trust, Union Square Fund. Hyosung Corp. is 2011-2014. lead sponsor of the Silk Road project MetLife Foundation is the official 2011 tour sponsor of the Silk Road project.
Visit http://silkroadproject.org for more information about the event.
The Silk Road connect
Silk Road connect is multidisciplinary educational approach that employs practical experience and the transformative power of art to enrich the existing sixth-grade curriculum and spark a lifelong passion for learning. At the invitation of the New York City Department of education tested the Silk Road project road connect silk in New York City public middle schools in the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years. Partner organizations include the American Museum of natural history, the Manhattan School of music, Metropolitan Museum of art, national geographic Genographic Project and teachers college at Columbia University.
On the Silk Road project
The Silk Road project is a non-profit arts and educational organization with a vision of connecting the world of neighborhoods of artists and audiences around the world together. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma 1998 founded as a catalyst for the promotion of innovation and learning through the arts, the Silk Road project takes inspiration from the historic silk road trade routes as modern metaphor for multicultural and interdisciplinary exchange.
About City Parks Foundation
City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization to offer Park programs through the five boroughs of New York City. CPF works in more than 750 parks citywide, presenting a variety of liberal arts, sports and educational programs, and empowerment to support citizens their parks at the local level. His programs and community-building initiatives reach a contribution to the revitalization of neighborhoods throughout New York City more than 600,000 people each year.
Programming, you find the latest planning and line up for all the days of SummerS to http://summerstage.org.
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