A Review of Our 4th Annual Benefit “Growing Up – Reaching Out”
“Happiness is singing together when day is through… And happiness is those who sing with you… Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too… For happiness is anyone and anything at all that’s loved by you…” Singing these poetic lyrics, our wonderful cast wrapped up “Growing Up – Reaching Out,” our fourth annual benefit performance held at the Kitchen black box theater on the night... Read More
An Interview with Broadway Actress Elisa Winter
For our latest Artist Interview, we sat down with multi-talented Broadway actress Elisa Winter! Elisa sang and danced in the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd and has performed in productions around the country since she was young. She also teaches music lessons and is the co-founder of Play On! Studios- a company that offers after school classes, summer camps, and private lessons in theater and music. In addition to granting us an interview,... Read More
An Interview with Broadway Actress Kristie Kerwin
For our latest Artist Interview, we were lucky enough to sit down with seasoned actress and Broadway performer Kristie Kerwin! The NYU graduate has appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, performed as Nellie with the First National Lincoln Center touring production of South Pacific, and sang and danced in the Broadway production of Spamalot. (She even appeared on a two story Spamalot billboard in Las Vegas! How many people can say that?!)... Read More
In the Classroom with Arts For All
Here on the Arts For All blog, we’ve featured artist interviews, event highlights, heartwarming personal reflections, and more. But we have yet to share what happens on the front lines of Arts For All. Our mission is clear: we provide artistic opportunities to in-need children all over the greater NYC area– in schools, shelters, in hospitals, and more. But how does it happen? That’s where teaching artists come in! Our devoted teaching artists... Read More
Educating Educators: A Review of the Face to Face 2012 Arts in Education Conference
Last month, Arts For All attended Face to Face- a conference organized by the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable. The two day event, held February 22nd and 23rd at the renowned Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, was a spectacular meeting of some of New York’s best minds in arts education. Arts administrators, teaching artists, school personnel, and parents all came together to share their knowledge of best practices and policies in education... Read More
Growing Up – Reaching Out: Arts For All’s 4th Annual Benefit!
I don’t know about you, but when I was a little girl, I loved to play dress up with my parents’ clothes. My sister and I would spend hours in their walk in closet carefully selecting motley ensembles that transformed us into teachers, judges, princesses, and everything in between. We donned oversized watches and neckties, filled our father’s attaché cases with construction paper and stuffed animals, and set off to conquer our obstacles... Read More
An Interview with Playwright Alan Ostroff
We’ll be doing occasional interviews with local artists here on the new Arts For All blog; and for the inaugural interview, we went straight to the source and had a lovely chat with Mr. Alan Ostroff, Arts For All’s playwright-in-residence: In three words, who is Alan Ostroff, playwright? - Not that concise… Nice answer! How did you first become a playwright? - About seven years ago, I was interested in creating a vehicle for myself... Read More
Winter Program Overview
We’re excited to be starting 2012 off with a bang! Already this year, we’ve offered a number of exciting programs, and we’re still going very strong as we enter February. Teaching artist Mèlissa Smith kicked off January by teaching weekly movement and dance workshops to students K-1 at Project C.O.O.L. afterschool program in the East Village. Teaching artist Robin Cannon took Arts For All to the outer boroughs with weekly drama programs at... Read More
New Year, New Website!
Happy New Year, Friends! We hope you all thoroughly enjoyed the holiday season and are ready to embark upon the year 2012 with Arts For All! In addition to a fresh new year, you may have noticed that we’re rolling out a fresh new website complete with a new look and a new logo. We’re so excited! The new site has a lot more content and a user-friendly interface, so please take a moment to look around and get acquanited with the great new pages... Read More
