Stone Soup: Creating an Arts-Based Afterschool Program in Rural Maine. Voices from the Field

Autor/in	Zapolsky, Valerie
Titel	Stone Soup: Creating an Arts-Based Afterschool Program in Rural Maine. Voices from the Field
Quelle	In: Afterschool Matters, (2019) 30, S.33-36 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	After School Programs; Art Activities; Rural Areas; Creativity; Preadolescents; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Grade 11; Grade 12; Youth Programs; Maine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Kreativität; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Jugendsofortprogramm
Abstract	Rangeley Friends of the Arts (RFA) is a nonprofit arts organization in Rangeley, a town of 1,200 souls in the rural western mountains of Maine. Working with existing facilities and a largely volunteer workforce, the article explains how this group established Creative After School Arts, or CASA--a program that provides a safe home away from home and enriching programming to local students five days a week. CASA focuses on preteens and teens in grades 5-12. These young people are too old for day care; most participants are too young for work, but old enough for responsibility. Most are latchkey kids, entering adolescence with all its potential dangers but with little supervision. The after school program creates space for a bright creative community through the long, dark Maine winter, and exposes children to the arts, broadens their horizons and gives them opportunities to shine. The example provided by Rangeley Friends of the Arts shows that communities can build arts programming for youth with few resources, as long as they have the will to accomplish this goal. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute on Out-of-School Time. Wellesley Centers for Women, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. Tel: 781-283-2547; Fax: 781-283-3657; e-mail: niost@wellesley.edu; Web site: http://www.niost.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01