Grants Pen Culture Project
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This project is sponsored
by the Culture, Health, Arts Sports and Education
Fund (CHASE). It will last one year an d youth in
the Grants Pen community will recieve free music lessons, drama classes and dance
classes. These classes will be at the new AMCHAM sponsored Grants Pen Police Station.
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purpose of this project is to establish and operate Arts and Cultural groups within
the community of Grants Pen.
These groups are Dance, Music, Choir and Drama. Since the establishment of YOU in
1991 several of the youth it has worked with over the years have expressed a desire
to be a part of such groups. This increasing request has become deafening as well
as the need to have the students partake in such deeper activities.
The purpose of cultural activities is to reinforce and develop the values and attitudes
of working together using creative and positive expression. Cultural training also
provides skills with which the students can be self-employed.
All of these programmes would be at no cost to the participants. The groups would
partake in YOU’s formal activities (graduations, workshops, training sessions etc).
Additionally, these groups would perform on a paid basis to organisations for similar
functions.
Many of the inner city youth YOU work with have the desire and often strong need
for artistic expression. Most resort to DJ’ing as the only cultural avenue compared
to the more uptown youth who go to schools with well developed classes in music,
dance, choir and drama as a part of their normal educational experience.
Unfortunately the inner city schools are markedly void of established cultural programmes.
Additionally, inner city parents cannot afford to send their children to these programmes
as extra curricular activities. These programmes will be operated for one year and
it is anticipated that from the success of these programmes similar programmes will
be established in other inner city communities.
Dance, Music, Choir and Drama classes will be held on four separate evenings per
week for a two-hour period in each of the communities. Each class in the communities
will be for up to twenty students. A trained teacher will tutor these classes which
will run along he same period as school terms for 36 weeks for the year. YOU programme
coordinators working in the communities will promote the programmes and select the
students. The classes will be scheduled and YOU staff will manage all the project
logistics, monitoring and evaluation. All teaching will be to internationally recognised
curricula and certification.
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