STUDENTS TO PRESENT THEIR WRITINGS.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - Students from My Friend's Place who participated in a yearlong writing workshop sponsored by the CalArts Community Arts Partnership The Community Arts Partnership (usually known as CAP) was established in 1990,and is the first program of its kind in the U.S. The program links the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County as part of an will present a reading Wednesday from their recently published anthology, ``Mean Composition.'' Through the partnership, students from California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. in Valencia teach homeless and runaway teens cared for at My Friend's Place in Hollywood. The reading will be held at 1 p.m. at My Friend's Place, 5850 Hollywood Boulevard. The center is a safe, drop-in shelter that offers services and cultural activities for youths in need. The CalArts student instructors are Melanie Watts, Jared Elms and Anna Hawkey, under the direction of CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Mady Schutzman and Jon Wagner. The read-in is free and open to the public. Information is available by contacting Sayda Trujillo by phone at (661) 222-2710 or by e-mail at trujillo(at)calarts.edu. The 14-year-old CAP program offers in-depth arts training programs free of charge for middle and high school students in jazz, printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. , photography, video, drawing, graphic design, dance, digital arts, theater, puppetry puppetry Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. , chamber music, world music, animation and writing in 40 neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County. CAP is a partnership of CalArts, Plaza de la Raza, Watts Towers Arts Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Youth Orchestra, Side Street Projects, My Friend's Place, Visual Communications, Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics, KAOS KAOS - Kent Applicative Operating System Network, William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center and Inner-City Arts. |
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