AFCY Event: AFCY’s Emerging Youth Artists at the ROM

Youth Residency and Youth Arts Week Events

The creative engagement of Toronto youth is what defines AFCY – we provide opportunities for under-resourced young people living in our city to participate in a plethora of meaningful cultural experiences and learnings. AFCY’s new Emerging Youth Arts Educators Residency Program is our latest initiative that supports the arts educational practices of our youth. It all starts this spring at the Royal Ontario Museum.  Through a partnership with the ROM’s Program Department, AFCY’s emerging youth arts educators will be featured during the museum’s Spring Family Weekends.  Youth will set up pop-up visual arts studios in galleries throughout the museum, as a means to generate artwork and converse with visitors. The program’s intention is to generate new cultural intersections, where youth and diverse Toronto audiences can merge, interact and participate in exchanges of knowledge, culture and story. The residency program will operate at the ROM, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 – 4 pm every weekend starting April 14/15 and ending June 9/10.  Come see the emerging art stars of AFCY in action at the ROM!

AFCY’s new Emerging Youth Arts Educators Residency Program will also be a part of Youth Arts Week. On the Weekend of May 4 and 5, 2012, join us at the ROM and engage in youth-led arts activities and experience hands-on art-making activities.

Recent News: Arts Educators Institute Workshop

Upcoming Workshops: More AEI Workshops Happening This Spring!

Wednesday May 23, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at Lakeshore Arts

Emerging Arts Educators

Join art educator Hilary Inwood for an introduction to the power and practice of arts education.  This workshop will explore the fundamentals of quality arts education and offer tips to improve the experience of learners and the reach of programs.  Participants will examine their own assumptions about arts education, discuss what they bring to their programs currently and identify their needs for ongoing professional learning to develop their ‘educational toolkits’ for the future.

To register for a workshop and for more information, please contact: Nicole Fisher at 416-929-9314 x 109 or nicole@afcy.ca

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Image Gallery: Projects Gallery

Program Pictures

BIG BAM BOOM 2011 Gallery

BIG BAM BOOM 2010 Gallery