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About
The People’s Conservatory trains young arts explorers to envision and create a humane and just world through their art. Our mission is to channel arts creation and performance into artistic endeavors that can promote positive social change. Currently, our teaching artists offer over 150 classes per week to Oakland students at Roses in Concrete Community School– both in-school and after-school. Our programming has been wildly popular with students, parents, and educators and we are now ready to expand. This fall, we will be bringing our offerings to four new locations in the Bay Area, broadening the number of students, families, and communities who can benefit from arts making and empowerment. The funds we raise in this campaign will enable this growth, train additional artist educators and keep these programs affordable for our school partners and the students and families they serve.
Our Vision
It is our belief that young people are inherently artistic with a clearly defined voice and perspective. They are innately informed and acutely aware of who they are, how they’re connected to the world, and that they share a responsibility for an ever-evolving culture. Our task as artist educators is to help them reveal themselves by facilitating experiences that help focus on growth and expansion. To this end, the conservatory curriculum incorporates a wide range of teachings rooted in ethnic and cultural studies. Our faculty members are working artistic professionals and experienced culture keepers who are particularly skilled in working with youth from diverse backgrounds. Our goal is to serve “all of the people” with a dedicated focus on black and brown youth and adults from historically marginalized and economically blighted communities who are often denied awareness of and access to higher arts education. TPC helps young people find their creative voices, re-imagine the communities most pressing social problems, and transform from cultural consumers to cultural producers and the next generation of cultural keepers for their communities. Overall our objective is to train our arts explorers to become the new leaders of tomorrow.
What we do
Phase I of The People’s Conservatory will focus programming for the first 1-2 years “In the field” expanding our arts courses and programming to communities that need it and want it most; through fully-integrated day school arts and after school programs or one-day workshops, teacher trainings and showcases. In addition to growing our program at Roses in Concrete, some of the schools we will be serving in the fall include: Manzanita Seed, Pear Tree Community School, Edendale Middle School, and Wood Middle School. Programming will be supported by government grants, community organizations, private donors, and by YOU! Phase I will also include the opening of a small arts making hub in Fall 2018 which will house the Phil Reeder Music program at The Church by the Side of the Road in Berkeley for after school and weekend performing and visual arts courses for all youth. This space will also provide holiday and arts summer camps which will be supported by tuition, grants, and community fundraisers.
Phase II will set the stage for a large scale state-of-the-art performing and visual arts complex in East Oakland, CA. This flagship location will open its doors in fall 2020 and will include fine arts studios (painting, drawing, sculpture), dance and music rehearsal studios, a photography studio and darkroom, a digital media facility (filmmaking, animation, graphic design), an audio production/engineering studio, a black box theater, writing and creativity spaces, a cafe, and a large multi-media performing arts venue with film screening capabilities. In this phase TPC will become equipped to envelop the demands of the ever-growing Bay Area community and become one of the world’s leading arts presenters and educator providers, as well as be a hub for artists and social justice warriors to convene, collaborate and create.
Our first initiative--CUBA
The People’s Conservatory Global Citizens’ Cultural Exchange in partnership with Roses in Concrete Community School, Oakland, CA was created to provide developing artists-activists with opportunities to explore the cultural treasures of the African diaspora. 8 middle school GCCE participants have been chosen to connect with 8 fellow middle school artists-activists in Cienfuegos, Cuba; reflect on the richness of Afro-Cuban music, art, dance, religion and language; and transform their sense of identity and responsibility as global citizens.
Intercultural Arts Exchange Project
This project is comprised of a series educational workshops and arts activities that are based on students identities, diasporic histories and communities. These student explorations are exchanges between Yoruban, Rhumba, Danzon and Modern Contemporary, Hip-Hop and Black American dance forms. In culmination, this project will give students the opportunity to utilize these styles and frameworks to collaborate and develop original dance compositions which will then be performed for the community.
Our Ask
Your support will transform arts education in Oakland, California – where arts programming has been cut in too many schools. Your generous donation will allow The People’s Conservatory to serve over 750 students in the fall of 2018, and many more in the spring. It will also enable 8 Oakland based Artist Scholars and 4 Master Teachers to travel to Cienfuegos, Cuba and connect and build with 8 Cuban Artist Scholars and 4 Cuban Master Teachers over 8 days. The participants will break bread together, learn together, play together, create together, and grow together using a variety of artistic and academic modalities that are rooted in African Diasporic history and culture. Here’s how we’ll use your generous gifts for our arts programming:
· $25 will cover one day of snacks for our entire group in Cuba/a week's worth of snacks for one of our after school arts programs.
· $50 will cover one night’s stay in Cuba for one of our artist scholars/the cost of one arts class in one of our school programs.
· $100 will cover meals for one of our artist scholars for two days in Cuba/ the cost of two arts classes in one of our school programs.
· $250 will cover art supplies for our artist scholars in Cuba/half of a semester long arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $750 will pay for one of our artist scholars to fly round trip to Cuba/an entire arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $1000 will cover day-to-day travel costs in Cuba for half the trip/a half year long arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $2000 will cover the entire cost for one of our artist scholars to go to Cuba/a year long arts residency in one of our school programs.
The People’s Conservatory is by, for and about the community. Our roots are here, our families are here, and the seeds of greatness we plant in our young people will bloom here. This is only possible with support from our community. We can’t do it without you.
The People’s Conservatory trains young arts explorers to envision and create a humane and just world through their art. Our mission is to channel arts creation and performance into artistic endeavors that can promote positive social change. Currently, our teaching artists offer over 150 classes per week to Oakland students at Roses in Concrete Community School– both in-school and after-school. Our programming has been wildly popular with students, parents, and educators and we are now ready to expand. This fall, we will be bringing our offerings to four new locations in the Bay Area, broadening the number of students, families, and communities who can benefit from arts making and empowerment. The funds we raise in this campaign will enable this growth, train additional artist educators and keep these programs affordable for our school partners and the students and families they serve.
Our Vision
It is our belief that young people are inherently artistic with a clearly defined voice and perspective. They are innately informed and acutely aware of who they are, how they’re connected to the world, and that they share a responsibility for an ever-evolving culture. Our task as artist educators is to help them reveal themselves by facilitating experiences that help focus on growth and expansion. To this end, the conservatory curriculum incorporates a wide range of teachings rooted in ethnic and cultural studies. Our faculty members are working artistic professionals and experienced culture keepers who are particularly skilled in working with youth from diverse backgrounds. Our goal is to serve “all of the people” with a dedicated focus on black and brown youth and adults from historically marginalized and economically blighted communities who are often denied awareness of and access to higher arts education. TPC helps young people find their creative voices, re-imagine the communities most pressing social problems, and transform from cultural consumers to cultural producers and the next generation of cultural keepers for their communities. Overall our objective is to train our arts explorers to become the new leaders of tomorrow.
What we do
Phase I of The People’s Conservatory will focus programming for the first 1-2 years “In the field” expanding our arts courses and programming to communities that need it and want it most; through fully-integrated day school arts and after school programs or one-day workshops, teacher trainings and showcases. In addition to growing our program at Roses in Concrete, some of the schools we will be serving in the fall include: Manzanita Seed, Pear Tree Community School, Edendale Middle School, and Wood Middle School. Programming will be supported by government grants, community organizations, private donors, and by YOU! Phase I will also include the opening of a small arts making hub in Fall 2018 which will house the Phil Reeder Music program at The Church by the Side of the Road in Berkeley for after school and weekend performing and visual arts courses for all youth. This space will also provide holiday and arts summer camps which will be supported by tuition, grants, and community fundraisers.
Phase II will set the stage for a large scale state-of-the-art performing and visual arts complex in East Oakland, CA. This flagship location will open its doors in fall 2020 and will include fine arts studios (painting, drawing, sculpture), dance and music rehearsal studios, a photography studio and darkroom, a digital media facility (filmmaking, animation, graphic design), an audio production/engineering studio, a black box theater, writing and creativity spaces, a cafe, and a large multi-media performing arts venue with film screening capabilities. In this phase TPC will become equipped to envelop the demands of the ever-growing Bay Area community and become one of the world’s leading arts presenters and educator providers, as well as be a hub for artists and social justice warriors to convene, collaborate and create.
Our first initiative--CUBA
The People’s Conservatory Global Citizens’ Cultural Exchange in partnership with Roses in Concrete Community School, Oakland, CA was created to provide developing artists-activists with opportunities to explore the cultural treasures of the African diaspora. 8 middle school GCCE participants have been chosen to connect with 8 fellow middle school artists-activists in Cienfuegos, Cuba; reflect on the richness of Afro-Cuban music, art, dance, religion and language; and transform their sense of identity and responsibility as global citizens.
Intercultural Arts Exchange Project
This project is comprised of a series educational workshops and arts activities that are based on students identities, diasporic histories and communities. These student explorations are exchanges between Yoruban, Rhumba, Danzon and Modern Contemporary, Hip-Hop and Black American dance forms. In culmination, this project will give students the opportunity to utilize these styles and frameworks to collaborate and develop original dance compositions which will then be performed for the community.
Our Ask
Your support will transform arts education in Oakland, California – where arts programming has been cut in too many schools. Your generous donation will allow The People’s Conservatory to serve over 750 students in the fall of 2018, and many more in the spring. It will also enable 8 Oakland based Artist Scholars and 4 Master Teachers to travel to Cienfuegos, Cuba and connect and build with 8 Cuban Artist Scholars and 4 Cuban Master Teachers over 8 days. The participants will break bread together, learn together, play together, create together, and grow together using a variety of artistic and academic modalities that are rooted in African Diasporic history and culture. Here’s how we’ll use your generous gifts for our arts programming:
· $25 will cover one day of snacks for our entire group in Cuba/a week's worth of snacks for one of our after school arts programs.
· $50 will cover one night’s stay in Cuba for one of our artist scholars/the cost of one arts class in one of our school programs.
· $100 will cover meals for one of our artist scholars for two days in Cuba/ the cost of two arts classes in one of our school programs.
· $250 will cover art supplies for our artist scholars in Cuba/half of a semester long arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $750 will pay for one of our artist scholars to fly round trip to Cuba/an entire arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $1000 will cover day-to-day travel costs in Cuba for half the trip/a half year long arts residency in one of our school programs.
· $2000 will cover the entire cost for one of our artist scholars to go to Cuba/a year long arts residency in one of our school programs.
The People’s Conservatory is by, for and about the community. Our roots are here, our families are here, and the seeds of greatness we plant in our young people will bloom here. This is only possible with support from our community. We can’t do it without you.
Fundraising team (3)
Rozz Nash-Coulon
Organizer
Oakland, CA
Kurt Kaaekuahiwi
Team member
Ron Miles
Team member
