TIME IN CHILDRENS ARTS INITIATIVE
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Mission Statement
The Time In Children’s Arts Initiative is transforming the lives & learning of underserved public elementary school children through an innovative arts education platform partnering with Title 1 schools in some of the highest poverty areas in NYC. An awardee of the Maxine Greene Foundation for its groundbreaking approach to arts education, Time In’s Opera ‘N Art program provides weekly offsite immersions in which entire classrooms of children–beginning from K–joyfully engage in a -7-year program of opera through studio art, museum visits/gallery hops, language & text all designed to broaden a child’s artistic awareness & skills. In Harlem & the South Bronx, where academic, cultural & social inequities have severely limited children’s opportunities, Time In’s vibrant initiative has proven that children thrive cognitively, creatively & social-emotionally when engaged in activities to support their development as effective creators, as well as engaged, responsible & thoughtful participants in a larger democracy.
About This Cause
The work of transforming our broken systems is more urgent than ever. In New York City’s chronically impoverished communities, children are experiencing barriers and divisions that imperil their ability to succeed. These children – our neighbors - are deprived of the kinds and quality of enrichment opportunities that their more fortunate peers enjoy: opportunities that research shows facilitate intellectual, creative and social-emotional growth. Paul Tough, a major voice on education and poverty, observes that “when educators do succeed at educating poor minority students up to national standards of proficiency, they invariably use methods that are radically different and more intensive than those employed in most American public schools.” The many hundreds of disadvantaged children that Time In serves from Harlem, the South Bronx and East Flatbush, desperately need the kind of extraordinary intervention to which Mr. Tough refers. In Time In’s low-performing partner schools there is a concentration of “high stress, negative cultures, students with low readiness to learn who are two to four years behind grade levels, and teachers and staff members who have never been trained for these kinds of challenges.”1 These factors, coupled with the stressors that our children face at home–among which shelters, domestic violence, homelessness, inadequate housing, neglect, psychiatric profiles, broken families, incarceration and hunger all figure prominently – speak to the need for radical interventions that subvert conventional academic approaches and reach children at a visceral level. Time In’s sophisticated, sequential programs: Opera ‘N Art for Pre-K- Grade 2, Arty Readers: An Operatic/Literary Journey through Manga & Contemporary Art (Grades 3-5), and CosiTV (Grade 5) offer a sustained, six-year integration of opera through hands-on studio art, language, reading, creative writing, movement, live performance & storytelling which, combined with museum visits and gallery hops to the city’s most important contemporary art exhibitions, are designed to transform the nature of public elementary school education, as they open the world beyond a child’s immediate vistas, both imaginatively and physically. (1 Overcoming Poverty’s Damage to Learning, David Bornstein, The New York Times, April 17, 2015.) In the communities that Time In serves, where academic, cultural and social inequities have historically limited a child’s opportunities for success, Time In provides unparalleled resources to whole grades of disadvantaged public school children. Time In’s vibrant arts initiative has resulted in dramatic, school-wide change, ensuring that underserved children, who would not otherwise have access to services of this quality, receive the material knowledge and positive reinforcement that they need to become effective and knowledgeable creators, as well as engaged, responsible and thoughtful participants in a larger democracy. What is Time In? The Time In Children’s Arts Initiative has worked, since 2006, to transform the lives and learning of New York City’s youngest and most at-risk public school children. An awardee of the renowned Maxine Greene Foundation for its groundbreaking work in arts-education, supported by the New York Community Trust and The Catalog for Giving, Time In’s tripartite aesthetic, intellectual and social-emotional programming - provides a powerful antidote to the debilitating inequities that children living in high-risk, chronically impoverished communities struggle with daily. An ongoing part of the normal school day for many hundreds of New York’s most disadvantaged public elementary school children Time In recreates the Best of NY, HiArt! program, which for 20 years has served the children of some of the world’s most privileged families --including David Bowie, Hugh Jackman, Wendi Deng, Mort Zuckerman, LA Reed, Liya Kebede, Annie Liebovitz, to name just a few - as well as in residencies at The Hollingworth Center for Gifted Education (Teacher's Collegeat Columbia University), and at the Speyer Legacy School. Beginning with 30 kindergarteners from Harlem's failing Family Academy in 2006, Time In was founded on the belief that life-long learners and leaders emerge not from punitive time outs, but from effective participation in the real world. Time In’s vibrant, interdisciplinary arts initiative ensures that underserved children, who would otherwise have no access to services of this quality, receive a thoughtfully crafted, arts-enriched education in which each individual child’s talents and needs are recognized, and the support for greater creativity, intelligence, self-esteem and a brighter, better future is more than just a promise. Systemic Transformation of At-Risk Public Schools through the Arts Time In’s thoughtfully-crafted, tri-phase opera /visual arts program is holistically organized to bring systemic change to failing public elementary schools with a full six-years of arts-intensive programming that tiers up in sophistication from Kindergarten through Grade 5. Every phase of the program maintains a 5:1 student/teaching artist ratio. All Time In artists are working artists, exhibiting nationally and internationally. • Phase 1: Opera ‘N Art, (K-2) is a school day, off-campus "mini-MFA for little kids"- that takes place at Time In’s light-filled Chelsea studio or out at museums/ galleries. Opera ‘N Art’s weekly immersions engage children in nurturing, language-rich explorations of opera/visual arts, enriching aesthetic, intellectual and social-emotional development. Children study three major musical works and visit 10-20 major contemporary art shows over the course of each year. • Phase 2: Arty Readers: An Operatic/Literary Journey through Manga and Contemporary Art (Grades 3-4) is Time In’s response to its partner schools' struggles to build advanced reading and writing skills in communities where learning is challenged by domestic displacements (shelter to shelter), the debilitating stressors of poverty and a high proportion of children with special needs. An interdisciplinary learning platform fusing opera with art, literacy and history through a dynamic, child-centric model that leverages the Japanese art of manga, Arty Readers blends opera – its transcendent musical beauty and moral and ethical questioning – with structured, technical drawing skills and literacy/language-based activities that foster creative and cognitive growth, academic success and social-emotional development. Primarily held in school, students visit 9-10 major art exhibitions annually. • Phase 3, CosiTV, is the Grade 5 capstone to six years of Time In programming. Building upon on the students' extensive opera and fine art backgrounds, fifth graders work collaboratively - mentored by a renowned performance /visual artist (Guy Richards Smit in FY17), to collaboratively rescript an opera as a TV sitcom. Every phase of the process - scripting, acting, directing, costumes, props scenery, line production, sound and camera - is done by the children under the mentorship of Time In’s team of distinguished resident artists. CosiTV takes place both in school and in the studio, and also includes visits to 9- 10 major art exhibitions every year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9Nx6jMQU Very few of the children we work with will ever have a quality education. Black and Latino students represent 70% of New York City's public-school population, yet just over 3 percent of offers to the specialized high schools went to Black students, and only 5 percent went to Latino students. Every year, thousands of children, with extraordinary potential in every field enter a failing school system. Rather than having their intelligence and talents buoyed, they are deprived of the stimulus and support needed to meet their real potential. Time In's Promise: We will • Transform the lives & learning of chronically at-risk public school students and, as a result, the communities in which they live. • Give children unprecedented opportunities to make and understand music and art in an environment of personal and artistic validation. • Leverage the city’s existing cultural resources to level the playing field for chronically disadvantaged children. • Bolster academic performance and social emotional development through programming that provides the structure and support that children need to become focused, engaged, and productive in and out of school. • Build a cohort of students who, having learned through Time In’s carefully designed structure, know how to negotiate and advocate for personal freedoms, and who are prepared to take their place in the real world. Time In gives students the skills and personal agency needed to take on new challenges in their schools, their communities and the larger world around them. Your support will help fundamentally level the playing field for children who deserve to take their place in our city as informed, creative, cultured individuals. Your support can change the future of our city