Special Programs
TARGET FAMILYLINK- LEARN MORE
Our most comprehensive education arts program for families, provides the opportunity for children and their families to engage in positive shared life experiences through participation in art-making, observation, discussion and performance.
YOUTHLABS - LEARN MORE
Advance learning in the arts for teens outside of the school setting. Young Audiences YouthLabs give New York City teens the opportunity to participate in free, high-quality arts programs led by leading industry professionals.
BRIGHT LIGHT PARTNERSHIPS - LEARN MORE
2009-2010 Application
The Bright Light Partnership Program is a collaborative residency model with extensive professional development and team planning for classroom teachers and teaching artists. Created from a five-year research and evaluation initiative (2002-2007) and carried out in partnership with Bank Street College of Education, Bright Light focuses on in-depth arts education partnerships, supported through strategic professional development, in order to craft well-integrated curriculum that enhances student learning experiences.
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RICHARD GOLD OPERA LIFE PROJECT
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The Richard Gold Opera Life Project introduces New York City public school students to the engaging world of opera. Through a series of in-school residencies, Teaching Artist Richard Pearson Thomas and Christina Arsuaga help students identify, understand, appreciate - and ultimately create their own operas. Made possible by a grant from the Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Education Fund through the New York Community Trust. For information on similar programs, please contact Katie Miller, Director of Programming at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 212-319-2846.
The Richard Gold Opera Life Project introduces New York City public school students to the engaging world of opera. Through a series of in-school residencies, Teaching Artist Richard Pearson Thomas and Christina Arsuaga help students identify, understand, appreciate - and ultimately create their own operas. Made possible by a grant from the Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Education Fund through the New York Community Trust. For information on similar programs, please contact Katie Miller, Director of Programming at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 212-319-2846.
EMPIRE STATE PARTNERSHIPS
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The Empire State Partnership is a governing body for recipients of all New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) grant award winners.
The Empire State Partnership (ESP) will continue to augment the existing work of Young Audiences New York at PS 205X in the Bronx and PS 89K in Brooklyn. Young Audiences New York supports each school's goals of strengthening students’ art making skills, enhanced aesthetic perception, critical analysis skills, and written and verbal comprehension skills by providing skills-based instruction through art making, residencies and extensive professional development. Classroom teachers and teaching artists will support residency work with literature that connects to grade level and visual artists being studied. In addition to the in-school residency activities, this school-wide initiative will include artist/teacher planning sessions, professional development seminars, museum visits, family workshops, and a school-wide exhibition of student art.
The Empire State Partnership is a governing body for recipients of all New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) grant award winners.
The Empire State Partnership (ESP) will continue to augment the existing work of Young Audiences New York at PS 205X in the Bronx and PS 89K in Brooklyn. Young Audiences New York supports each school's goals of strengthening students’ art making skills, enhanced aesthetic perception, critical analysis skills, and written and verbal comprehension skills by providing skills-based instruction through art making, residencies and extensive professional development. Classroom teachers and teaching artists will support residency work with literature that connects to grade level and visual artists being studied. In addition to the in-school residency activities, this school-wide initiative will include artist/teacher planning sessions, professional development seminars, museum visits, family workshops, and a school-wide exhibition of student art.
PS205X
Through discussion, reflection, and planning meetings, Young Audiences New York and PS 205X have determined that the project goals will be to develop and strengthen students’ art making skills, enhanced aesthetic perception, critical analysis skills, and written and verbal comprehension. In each of the 40 twelve-week residencies, students school wide will create original artwork, develop a familiarity with works of art chosen to correlate to the curriculum, and participate in an in-school exhibition of their work. Many students will also have the opportunity to visit a museum. Professional development and sustainability are also major goals of this initiative. Through professional development sessions, classroom teachers will develop the skills necessary to integrate the arts into their classrooms and facilitate informed student discussions about works of art and artistic processes. Professional development work will enhance the confidence of the teachers, thus empowering them to assume a larger role in ongoing residencies with Young Audiences New York teaching artists.
PROJECT SABER AT 89K
Project SABER (Striving towards Arts Based Education and Resources - in Spanish “to know”), the partnership between Young Audiences New York and the Cypress Hills Community School (CHCS), seeks to plan the next phase of a model maximizing 2nd language learning in and through the arts. The project’s goal is to provide opportunities for all of PS 89’s constituents to actively experience the arts in an interdisciplinary fashion and come to know and understand content areas in a new light. This process will guide the growth of an integrated, arts-based curriculum in this parent-founded dual-language (DL) K-8 school.This project will also develop the school’s sequential arts instruction linking school-based arts and classroom teachers and teaching artists. Programming will provide 12-week residencies for classes in grades K-8 in which the linguistic scope and sequence is solidly in place, Professional Development (PD) will consist of study groups that employ Collaborative Assessment Protocols for reviewing student work, as well as whole-school professional development that strengthens art-making and arts-integrated project-based curriculum development. Alongside the steering committee, administrators and teachers will plan these professional development activities and provide on-going feedback. The Steering Committee will work with an evaluator with whom we have an on-going relationship to adjust the program during this planning year.