Photo courtesy of Arts for Learning
Thu, October 12th 2023 07:55 PM
Arts for Learning WNY partners with various organizations in eight Western New York counties to provide free public arts workshops to the community.
“In celebration of the Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary in 2025, Arts for Learning WNY is offering an engaging and educational program that invites youth and families to deeply explore the social, cultural, and historical significance of the Erie Canal,” the press release states. We have developed a program that integrates educational arts.” “Traveling the Erie Canal: A 200-Year Journey” introduces multiple learning styles to bring the era of the Erie Canal to life through writing, poetry, drama, and music. This is an integrated interdisciplinary arts program that addresses the ”
Additionally, “While the local and national impacts of the Erie Canal were primarily on an economic level, there were also lasting social and cultural transformations in and around the canal. This immersive program We will celebrate and acknowledge those changes through workshops and performances by a roster of artists and cultural partners. Arts for Learning will host “Erie Canal Journeys” at 16 libraries in eight western New York counties.
“Programming is hands-on and mind-on, increasing access to arts education by exploring difference, fostering collaboration, and inviting visitors to experience the exciting and diverse world around us. Closing the opportunity gap for those who have the least. Through arts-inspired activities, participants will have once-in-a-lifetime memories and an opportunity to embrace diversity, experience and learn new things, and fully participate in their communities. It gives us the opportunity to understand the opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.”
The local program schedule is as follows.
Erie County – Frank Meriwether Library:
√ October 14th, 2pm: Melissa Kate, Traveling Museums, Crafts and Stories.
√ Nov. 11, 2:30 p.m.: Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, Pioneer Days, Discover Life in the 1800s.
Niagara County – North Tonawanda Public Library:
√ Oct. 28, noon: Melissa Kate, Traveling Museums, Crafts and Stories.
This program was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and partially funded by Humanities New York. Details and explanations can be found here.
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The mission of Arts for Learning WNY (formerly Young Audiences of Western New York) is to inspire and expand learning and strengthen communities through engagement with the arts. We serve Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties. Arts for Learning WNY was founded in 1962 and will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2022.