About this project
KIDS STORIES uses the hopes, dreams and words of our children to visualize a future world: safe, sustainable and rewarding for all. Working with children from the South Chicago Art Center, our project builds upon the SCAC’s mission to provide a safe place for children after school; cultivate a sense of aesthetics; boost self-esteem and intellectual curiosity; decrease incidence of crime and substance abuse; and promote friendship, solidarity and empowerment in the community.
Using the arts as a shared language, this project will help give voice to the compelling messages these children have to share with the world. In partnership with SCAC's Director, Sarah Ward, we will use theater, visual arts and media, to plant the seeds of empowerment in the children's hearts, minds and voices and help deliver the children’s messages to the world with the powerful advocacy of their voices.
These children, ages 5-12, will use their own art to create a mural for their future world, which will become the backdrop for these children speaking their individual messages to our camera. The final short video will become their declaration of expectation and accountability for the world and will be used not only to carry these messages; to inspire us to listen to our children's voices and inspire KID STORIES events in other cities.
To learn more about the South Chicago Art Center, visit: http://www.happyartcenter.org/
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YES!! Right now, if we make our funding, the Art Center has a grant that will match the funding we raised. We can double the resources for the Art Center to buy art supplies and continue to provide a safe haven for these amazing kids in South Chicago.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 25.
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Every backer will be acknowledged in the South Chicago Art Center's annual report.
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Backers will receive an original work of art created by one of the children in addition to being acknowledged in the South Chicago Art Center's annual report.
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Backers will receive a t-shirt commemorating the February event at the South Chicago Art Center in additional to an original work of art by one of the children and acknowledgement in the South Chicago Art Center's annual report.
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Backers will receive credit in our final video in additional to a t-shirt commemorating the February event at the South Chicago Art Center, an original work of art by one of the children and acknowledgement in the South Chicago Art Center's annual report.
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Linda Lombardo and Amina Dickerson
Linda Lombardo's past credits include professional actor, playwright, director and singer with an emphasis on original children's theater tours for school, parks and libraries. While living in Winnipeg, Linda worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, performing radio drama and with the Manitoba Children's Theater, both main stage and touring with original theater programs for children. Co-founder of the Washington Park Theater in Albany, NY, Linda's grant writing bestowed a Hudson-Mohawk grant on the fledgling company for development of children's theater workshops. As a facilitator of creative workshops, Linda teaches Art From the Heart and Improvisation as a social context for developing self-esteem for teens.
Amina Dickerson has a background as a theatre artist, playwright and singer as well as more than two decades of work as a senior administrator in museum and arts education. She worked with Living Stage Theatre at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, as well as led educational outreach for Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art where she designed their Africa Heritage Month in school program that served D.C. public schools in the late 1970s. In her role as leader of Kraft Foods' philanthropic programs, she pioneered the Art Discovery program that brought the resources of 13 of Chicago's major cultural institutions--including Chicago Shakespeare Repertory, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Children's Museum, Goodman Theatre, DuSable Museum of African American History and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in a collaborative model that provided multi-disciplinary residencies and programs to Chicago schools.
