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12/29/2015 0 Comments

CAN YOU HELP?

Dear Friends,

As the year comes to a close, we want to express our sincere thanks for all the support we've received from you, our volunteers and CSA members. In the coming year we look forward to continuing- and hopefully expanding- our community programming. But we need your help!
Right now your support is urgently needed to keep our Sixth Street Afterschool and Summer Youth Program going in 2016. We receive no government funding (we’re not against getting help from the government but this funding has shrunk dramatically over the years) so we rely almost entirely on donations from our friends.

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Our Youth Program offers neighborhood children attending local elementary and middle schools a unique experience in the arts, poetry, creative movement and health and nutrition.  Ninety-five percent of our students are from low-income households and attend at no charge.  We pride ourselves on providing a quality enrichment program to families that need it most.

This coming year we’re excited to continue our students’ growing connection with 
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).  With the support of our CSA volunteers, students will continue  to receive weekly hands-on workshops in healthy food preparation and juicing using our local produce and  learn about sustainable agriculture through trips to the farm. And right here in the neighborhood our students are learning about community gardening, working at the Fifth Street Farm roof-top garden at Earth School and composting food scraps at El Jardin del Paradiso garden by P.S. 15. 
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This January we will start our weekly yoga classes for all participants. And for summer 2016 I will continue to lead our Friday Kids Bike Trips to Governors Island, Hudson River Park, Brooklyn and even New Jersey (with a little help from the MTA)!  Everyone is welcome to join us on these trips. 
 We have two great teachers running our Youth Program- Jen Chantrtanapichate and Libby Mislan. Not only have they done a remarkable job creating an innovative program for our neighborhood kids, but they’ve also launched our new Sixth Street Synergy, a Tuesday night workshop series focused on wellness, the arts, and environmental and social justice. Thus far, participants have enjoyed workshops in essential oils for winter, superfoods for immunity and mood boosting, and basic hand-sewing techniques.
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 We are thrilled to share that our Organic Soul Cafe is now open from 9 am-1:30 pm, Monday through Friday! We are serving organic fair-trade coffee and teas, fresh juices and elixirs using produce from our CSA. All proceeds go towards our Youth Program. Please spread the word!  We’ll be working hard to re-launch our dinner schedule in 2016 under the continued guidance of our amazing Chef and Program Director Annette Averette. As part of this, Annette and our CSA volunteers will be offering nutrition and vegetarian cooking workshops to the community.
We look forward to another great year of programming and our twenty-first of Community Supported Agriculture with Hepworth Farm and participating members, schools and community organizations!

Your tax deductible contribution to support our community programs is deeply appreciated.
Warmest wishes during this winter season. 

Howard Brandstein 
Executive Director
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12/21/2015 1 Comment

Sixth Street Youth Program closes out fall session before the Holiday Break!

On Thursday, December 10th, kids and parents gathered to celebrate the end of SSYP's fall session. Thanks for Maria Ferrar of the GROOVE movement, our families shared a high energy movement session that left everyone smiling and sweating! We closed out the evening with a Greek folk dancing led by SSYP volunteer Eo Constantatos. It was especially fun to share this joy with our parents, who work so hard and have been so supportive of the Sixth Street Youth Program.      

The photos below document other highlights from this session, including drawing workshops with visual artist Carl Parker, Batik pillow-making workshops with Jen, winter tea-making workshops with East Village wellness coach Natalie Decleve, and our partnership with the Earth School's Green Apple Kids afterschool program.

Our program restarts January 11th, and we are enrolling now! Please see the "Sixth Street Youth Program" page under "Programs and Events" for instructions on how to enroll!   
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12/21/2015 2 Comments

White Rainbow non-profit brings professional Artists to Sixth Street Youth Program

During October and November, non-profit White Rainbow, founded by Ashley Gail Harris, brought two professional artists to Sixth Street Youth Program to lead hands-on arts workshops with students. 

In October, illustrator Aiden Koch shared with us her passion for zines and comic book art. We engaged in a group comic drawing activity that Koch said she often used as a creative warm up with fellow artists. After each participant drew a character in their first square, the drawings were passed on to a new person, who drew an image in the next square, following a different prompt from Aiden for each sucessive square. After two seemingly random images were drawn, the students were challenged to use the remaining squares to create a simple storyline by making connections between the images. The idea, Aiden explained, was for the students to understand that stories can always be born from images. We had an awesome time sharing the comics when they were finished and observing the way our peers had crafted story from our original drawings.   

In November, collage artist Renee Phillips joined us for a workshop in paper collage. Renee introduced to students a layering technique she uses in her work, where she lays down a paper foundation, and then adds images on top of one another. She also supplied paper materials that she had dyed in advance, allowing students to play with color in their collage work. At the end of Renee's workshop, the students asked her questions about life as a professional artist. Renee's advice to our aspiring artists was to keep producing art, dedicating time to work on your craft each day.    

Check out the photos from both workshops below! 
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12/14/2015 1 Comment

Sixth Street Youth Poetry Spotlight: Tatiana Gonzalez

Tatiana is not your average sixth grader. Intellectual, curious, and a fierce believer in freedom of expression, Tatiana aspires to be a professional writer. We loved this poem she wrote during Sixth Street Youth Program, reflecting on the larger issues that burden our modern world.  The writing session was inspired by a visit from Lower East Side artist and poet Pitts. He shared poetry about the word "dictatorship" in hopes of sparking a conversation amongst the young people about power. Go Tati!   

I wonder

I wonder why people are judged for skin or culture 
I wonder why people make assumptions or claims about others 
I wonder why the majority of people focus on irrelevant news 
And the minority pay attention to relevant 
I wonder why society has higher and lower classes 
in which higher has more authority 
instead of an equalized world 
I wonder why important works of art and stories 
are being forgotten 
and replaced with a majority of (no offense) awful things 
I wonder why a majority of youth follow what the trends are 
I wonder why people label things and people when we were all nothing but human 
I wonder why we hide our true selves 
just to fit in
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