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Get Schooled at New Urban Arts Tonight
4:02PM ON
05/27/2008
BY
Matthew Lawrence
Although I’m terrified and bored by anything that has a website that lists bell hooks first under recommended reading, this event at New Urban Arts tonight sounds pretty neat:
Audio Documentary on Radical Education
In March and April of 2006, Amina Althea and Amber Woods visited 23 radical learning spaces, including free schools, charter and privateschools, community centers, and after school programs. They interviewed students, parents, teachers, and administrators about creating and sustaining these non-compulsory, non-coercive environments for learning and projects.
Based on these interviews and extensive research, Althea and Woods produced an audio documentary, entitled “I Want To Do This All Day.” It illuminates a grassroots movement of people and communities taking power over their own education and creating learning environments based on freedom, cooperation and social change.
In May of 2008, the pair will launch the documentary with a national tour of 17 cities. At each stop four dancers and two visual artists will offer a performance piece, that weaves excerpts from the documentary with dance, song, and projections to bring to life the stories of young people making their own paths in learning and life.
With public schools cutting programs faster than you can say Every Child Left Behind and private education out of the reach of most people, it definitely makes sense for a movement to start happening right about now.
Sliding scale $3-6 no one turned away for lack of funds
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