Arts education & youth Pathways

EDUCATION
GUIDEBOOKS

CCCADI exhibition guidebooks are created to support guided visits to our exhibitions with youth of all ages. Use these guides to explore and document young people’s art experience through viewing, writing, and fun activities.

We believe learning about the history and art of this African Diaspora community will help you to better understand just how vaned and brilliant our cultures and creative expressions are around the world.

YOUTH ADVANCEMENT

CCCADI YOUTH ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO EXPOSE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, THOSE IN THEIR LATE TEENS AND EARLY ADULTHOOD, TO OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL FACILITATE THEIR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH. 

YOUTH PATHWAYS

A PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS EDUCATORS AND 7-12TH GRADE STUDENTS IN NAVIGATING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACISM AND SYSTEMIC ANTI-BLACK VIOLENCE.

Students! Join us for our new TLC series, The Virtual Village. As a continuation of the Center’s Teaching Living Cultures (TLC) arts education programs, we’ve created a new online series for students. K-12 students will be introduced to dances of the African Diaspora as well as wonderful meditative Yoga moments and arts practice. TLC’s Virtual Village after-school videos are a fun time of cultural learning, sharing, and taking care of your bodies while at home. At the end of each eight-class series, you’ll also get an opportunity to share dance skills you’ve learned with us!

Teachers, moms, dads and caregivers! Our highly experienced roster of professional teaching artists make TLC’s Virtual Village a fun and effective way for your students’ extended learning in the history and cultures of the African Diaspora through dance and movement. CCCADI believes that learning about, and supporting the history, culture, and art of African Diaspora communities helps students to better understand themselves and others, and learn how brilliant cultures and creative expressions are from around the world. 

Introductory dance sessions will be provided in the following traditions:

• West African Dance 
  Mondays & Wednesdays

• Puerto Rican Bomba
  Tuesdays & Thursdays

• Meditative Yoga
  Fridays

Teaching Living Cultures (TLC) is CCCADI’s flagship PreK-12 arts education program that immerses students, and their educators in the music, dance, theater, visual arts, and the moving image of the African Diaspora. TLC has been successful in reaching over 4,800 students, and 140 teachers in NYC each year by developing performance, language, visual, and/or digital media skills and contextualizing the students’ classroom experience into a broader history that incorporates vibrant cultures reflective of our diverse global community. During the Covid-19 crisis, we continue our commitment to enriching the lives of our students and families. 

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