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22 February 2007
Renegades of Their Time and Age
I used to hate working with preteens, tweens, whatever you wanna call them. This totally changed my mind:
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I used to hate working with preteens, tweens, whatever you wanna call them. This totally changed my mind:
¶ 11:25 PM 0 comments
Don't Call It A Comeback!
A little voice told me to try and get this thing going again. The excuse that I'm too busy teaching is lame. But true. But anyway.
It's been a wild year with the babies. Towards the end of School Year 2005-2006 (SY0506) I was so overbooked that I would teach at three schools a day on some days. I took a lot of car services all over the Bronx. I also taught a summer program which turned out to be a hard slog -- weeks of 90+-degree temps, no AC, no trips, no dice. But on the plus side, I had a series of great shows at the end of SY0506, and during the xmas season this year, plus a great black history show last week that is among the best things i've done. Also, I closed on my first apartment last month, paid for almost exclusively by my work with kids. So I really can't complain.
SY0607 finds me back in Woodlawn and Tremont for the 4th year in a row, and also in Bedford Park for year number two. My responsibilities at my afterschool in Morris Heights have been scaled back, which is a relief. And I continue to teach early childhood on Saturdays at Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side. (For some reason I feel I can put that school's name in print, but not the PS's. Illogical?)
So I hope you'll check in here from time to time and let me know what you think about what you see and hear. And if you're an artist in NYC and think you'd like to get into this kind of work, get in touch. It rules so hard. ¶ 9:55 PM 0 comments
A little voice told me to try and get this thing going again. The excuse that I'm too busy teaching is lame. But true. But anyway.
It's been a wild year with the babies. Towards the end of School Year 2005-2006 (SY0506) I was so overbooked that I would teach at three schools a day on some days. I took a lot of car services all over the Bronx. I also taught a summer program which turned out to be a hard slog -- weeks of 90+-degree temps, no AC, no trips, no dice. But on the plus side, I had a series of great shows at the end of SY0506, and during the xmas season this year, plus a great black history show last week that is among the best things i've done. Also, I closed on my first apartment last month, paid for almost exclusively by my work with kids. So I really can't complain.
SY0607 finds me back in Woodlawn and Tremont for the 4th year in a row, and also in Bedford Park for year number two. My responsibilities at my afterschool in Morris Heights have been scaled back, which is a relief. And I continue to teach early childhood on Saturdays at Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side. (For some reason I feel I can put that school's name in print, but not the PS's. Illogical?)
So I hope you'll check in here from time to time and let me know what you think about what you see and hear. And if you're an artist in NYC and think you'd like to get into this kind of work, get in touch. It rules so hard. ¶ 9:55 PM 0 comments
