InsideOut

Trash Mash-Up is a community art project. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct “Maskostumes” which are original pageant masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world. This project reduces waste and inspires people to see each other and our environment in a new way.

Prior to joining the Performing Arts Workshop, Jessica worked for four years in her native Boston where she managed the staff, funding and coordination for a number of academic research projects related to civic engagement, community development and grassroots organizing. She also developed her own negotiation and community building skills as an organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (AFSCME, AFL-CIO). In 2005, Jessica finished her master's degree in Education and moved to the Bay Area. The Workshop offers her the opportunity to combine her love of the performing arts with her interests in education and community building.

Classroom visits, field trips, outreach events and professional development led by book artist/instructors introduce bookmaking as a way of fostering literacy and nurturing artistc expression, while creatively incorporating topics across curriculm. Sample projects, always tailored to grade level and specific classroom themes, are online at the SFCB Youth Programs web page, www.sfcb.org/php/yp.php and on the Teacher Features blog, www.sfcb.org/teacher-features. 

The Global Youth Media and Arts Program is an arts education program for youth ages 12-18 in New York and San Francisco.

Through the MAP youth use their own lives and communities as a platform to examine global themes such as Peace and Conflict, Immigration and Identity, and Power in Global Society using visual arts, performance and media. This program illuminates the connections between community and world affairs and helps young people learn to use art and media as tools for self-expression, dialogue, and community engagement.

• World Savvy's Media and Arts Program engages 500+ young people in New York and The Bay Area in contemporary art, media and global issues
• World Savvy provides 50+ art and media educators with the tools and training to bring global issues to the classroom!
• The program culminates with The Global Youth Media and Arts Festival that showcases youth artwork, performance and media!