Programs & Initiatives
The Diversity Awareness Partnership will not offer the Diversity Arts Program this summer, but please continue to check our website for new DAP program options.
Please review a list of similar programs below!
NCCJ's ANYTOWN program
UMSL Girls' Leadership Camp
Diversity Awareness Partnership and Metro Theater Company Presents!
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2010 Diversity Arts Program |
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Click here to read the 2010 Press Release.
What is it?
The Diversity Arts Program is a 2 week-long comprehensive arts and diversity summer retreat for youth ages 14-18. Participants weave the performing and visual arts with dialogue about social justice to increase awareness and understanding about key diversity issues.
Program Goals:Through an exploration of the artistic process, students will:
- Explore and share their identity through the following artistic media:
Theater Visual Art Media Art Creative Writing & Spoken Word Movement
- Explore how various forms of intolerance, including racism, sexism, classism, able-ism and religious intolerance negatively impact a community.
- Build familiarity and community with a diverse group of peers representative of the wide range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds that exist in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Where:
Washington University in St. Louis
(One block from Forest Park and Skinker Metrolink Station)
Dates and Time of Program:
July 5 – July 17, 2010
9:00am - 4:00pm daily
Open Mic and Gallery Opening (for a public audience)
Saturday, July 17, 2009
Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Boulevard
Who is Invited to Apply?
Youth between the ages of 14-18 from the St. Louis Metro area.
No artistic experience is necessary, only a desire to use the creative arts to build community and hone their skills as future leaders.
Check out a video from the 2009 Summer Retreat at Washington University
PROGRAM FEES In order to sustain this program we are now charging a fee to participate. IMPORTANT!!! PARTICIPANT COST Please Fill Out and Return Scholarship Request Form with Application |
CLICK ANY OF THE FOLLOWING 2010 APPLICATION AND NOMINATION FORMS TO DOWNLOAD
Please mail or fax applications and scholarship request forms to: Diversity Awareness Partnership 815 Olive Street, Suite 25 Saint Louis, MO 63101 Fax: (314) 621-9232
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Applications are due by Monday, May 17, 2010. Scholarship Request Forms are due by Friday, May 21.