ماذا او ما: Students from Middle Years Alternative School (MYA) will sing songs, recite poems and raps and show off drawings as part of their project called “Roses from Concrete: Our Neighborhood Music Experience.” Their teacher, Cynthia Lee, is one the nearly 3,800 staff members who stand to lose their job under the district’s “doomsday” budget. The project was paid for through a grant of $4,700 from PCCY’s Picasso Project. Students were assisted by local poet “Pheralyn (Lady) Dove and music producer & audio engineer Samori Coles.

من الذى: Middle Years Alternative school students
The Picasso Project
Public Citizens for Children & Youth

متي: Monday June 17th, 2013 at 9:30AM

أين: Middle Years Alternative School
4725 Fairmount Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19139

اتصل: Gretchen Elise Walker, PCCY, 617.792.6376, gretchenelise@childrenfirstpa.org
Anthony Hopkins, Communications Director, PCCY, 215.563.5848 ext. 23 anthonyh@childrenfirstpa.org

Since its inception in 2002, the Picasso Project has granted $425,000 in funds to support arts projects in 106 schools, working with 500 teachers and 99 teaching artists to reach over 26,500 children with the goal of enhancing creative and performing arts in Philadelphia schools. The Picasso Project seeks to demonstrate the importance of arts in building school unity, community engagement, and active learning. In the current budget crisis, instrumental music and other arts teachers are slated to be eliminated from schools, depriving children of valuable arts education opportunities. The Picasso Project helps schools address these losses by urging city and state legislators to SUPPORT SCHOOL FUNDING. Founded in 1980, Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) is dedicated to improving the lives and life chances of children in the Delaware Valley.