61 Pageviews Read Stories
- EIN 31-1669271
- (718) 784-4066
- PO Box 4338 Sunnyside NY 11104 USA
- http://www.earsay.org
- Add to Favorites
Promote This Nonprofit
Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness, Education, Educational Services, Theater
Mission: EarSay is an artist-driven non-profit organization dedicated to making artistic projects that focus on human rights and social justice and are used by the broader human rights and educational community. EarSay was founded in 1999 by artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan. Through their twenty years experience as professional artists and teachers, they saw a need to create an organization committed to the development, research, creation, and production of projects that begin in specific communities and address the current cultural conflicts and successes in our multi-dimensional communities. Projects engage the participation of individuals within particular communities and are created to reflect those communities through artistic productions. Radio Documentaries are produced for public radio stations and air on New York Public Radio, National Public Radio and listener-sponsored radio stations throughout the United States. In addition, EarSay conducts workshops in the arts and conflict resolution in the schools, for at-risk youth, in senior centers, libraries and community rooms. EarSay is located in the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, Queens New York.
Programs: Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts (CCDTA) is a high quality youth arts program in theatre, visual arts and oral history for teenagers who recently migrated to the United States. Bringing an understanding of obstacles to communities that are poor, displaced or without access to artistic training, we expose more than 1000 students a year to the professional arts. CCDTA trains and mentors actors, dancers, and musicians to teach in the program at the International High School (IHS) in Long Island City, Queens, housed at LaGuardia Community College.
Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts (CCDTA) trains underserved teenagers in theatre, writing, hip hop music and poetry, conflict resolution with a strong focus on creating sustainable and peaceful coexistence.