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What Your Donation Funds

2021-2022 Programs Funded to Date
  • Hispanic Heritage Month showcase for the Middle School by Fausto Feliz/Fuerza Dance Studio & Group
  • Cultural stories and poetry reading by poet Sheila Maldonado
  • AV Production equipment and instruments for the music department
  • Black History Month showcase for the Middle School by Jamila Wignot, director of documentary portrait AILEY and Amos Machanic, Jr., Teaching Artist for Ailey Arts In Education Community Programs and a former company member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ​
  • 8-Week School Day Programming–February through April:
  1. Grades K-4: Dance and Movement taught by Creative Dance Residency
  2. Grades 5-6: Hip Hop and Musical Theater taught by Dance Project Washington Heights
  3. Grades 7-8: Salsa/Bachata/Reggaeton taught by Fuerza Dance
2020-2021 Programs Funded
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Friends was able to provide a number of programs throughout the 2020-2021 year including:
  • 66 sessions of remote creative storytelling and theater provided by YANY
  • 66 creative writing workshops with Uptown Stories 
  • Dominican Dance classes for the middle school by Collectives 4 Arts Music & Dance
  • Movement class for the elementary school by Broadway Performing Arts Center
  • A partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center

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