The All Stars Project is holding its 2010 National Gala on Monday, April 12th at the David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City. The theme of the gala is Out of Crisis: Helping the World's Youth to Grow. Over 400 business and youth leaders will come together to celebrate and give special recognition to All Stars philanthropic partners: hedge-fund industry leader, Elliott Management Corp. and its general partner, philanthropist Paul E. Singer will be the keynote speaker.
Early corporate sponsors include Latham & Watkins, MetLife, and Navigant; and dinner co-chairs include: Steven W. Alesio, D&B; Scott B. Hill, Ernst & Young; Keith Horn, Elliott Management Corp.; Hunter L. Hunt, Hunt Oil; Charles McDonald, Elliott Management Corp.; Robert T. Ross, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Banking; Richard Sokolow, Elliott Management Corp.; Anne M. Sylvester, JPMorgan Chase; and Michael Waldorf, Paulson & Co. Fifty inner-city youth from our programs will perform and host the festivities.
The Castillo Theatre Presents a Co-Production by City Lights Youth Theatre and Youth Onstage!
By John Steinbeck
Adapted by Frank Galati
Directed by Robert Bruce McIntosh
Performers
from Youth Onstage! and the City Lights Youth Theatre come together
under the direction of Robert McIntosh, artistic director of City
Lights, to create an ambitious theatrical production and engage an
iconic American novel, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a
masterpiece about injustice and the dignity, decency and common
struggles of ordinary people.
On Thursday, March 11, Dr. Lenora B. Fulani, Ph.D, founder, All Stars Project and Pamela A. Lewis, Director of Youth Programs, All Stars Project led their second afterschool advocacy community meeting. This meeting, entitled, "Our Kids - and Our Communities - Must Have a Chance to Grow", was held at the First AME Bethel Church in Harlem, and more than 100 parents, grandparents, young people, and community leaders attended.
All Stars Project of Chicago held its second annual orientation ceremony for the Development School for Youth on March 2 at the Willis Tower. David Cherry, Director, All Stars Project of Chicago and Steve Bowen, partner at Latham & Watkins, hosted the event which brought together more than 70 All Stars corporate partners, donors, volunteers and friends.
In photo: (left to right, second row) Mort Rosen, donor; Mark Weisberg, Winston & Strawn; Scott Hairston, Latham & Watkins; Andy Bosman, Navigant Consulting; David Cherry, Director, All Stars Project of Chicago; Jeff Bakker, Neal, Gerber, Eisenberg; Cynthia Smith, MetLife; Spencer Wood, Dewey LeBoeuf; and Bonny Gildin, All Stars Project Vice President with the 2010 Development School for Youth students.
This year the New Jersey Development School for Youth will be placing 180 students in summer internships. To date, 149 of those positions have been secured through either renewals from companies who sponsored interns last year or new companies that have come on board. Tiffany & Co. has become one of the largest growth internship sponsors this year. They more than quadrupled their commitment from last year and are taking on 20 interns this coming summer. D&B, a leading sponsor has taken 30 interns. Other sponsors include Hollister Construction with 10 interns, PSEG with 8 interns, and Ernst and Young, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey both taking on 6 interns each.
On Saturday, February 13th 150 young performers, spanning all five boroughs and ranging in age from 5 to 25, gathered at Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, Brooklyn for the All Star Talent Show Network (ASTSN) workshop, where they had the opportunity to work with Javier Dzul, the Artistic Director of the Dzul Dance Company. Javier has performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and American Indian Dance Theater, to name a few.
Becoming Producers (formerly known as The Production of Youth by Youth), led by Dan Friedman, artistic director of Youth Onstage! has launched. On Tuesday, February 16, Becoming Producers held it's first workshop with 15 young people attending the class, mostly new to All Stars youth programs.
The workshop's first guest was Kasia Walicka Maimone, theatre and movie costume designer (among her credits are: the movies Amelia, Capote, and Song Catcher). The workshop was a big hit.
Are you a leader? Are you ready to be challenged, and to grow as a community organizer and manager of other youth activists? Then GOAL is the program for you!
The Get Organized and Lead (GOAL) Summer Internship Program is actively seeking applicants for the All Stars Project of New York, New Jersey, and the San Francisco Bay Area! The program supports a grassroots citywide organizing and fundraising campaign to expand All Stars' innovative inner-city youth development programs. Last year over 40 students, from as far as China, Romania, and the Philippines, came together to participate!
Energetic and socially committed college and graduate students are encouraged to apply to manage and lead an internship of their peers in All Stars' successful community outreach and fundraising. All Stars' programs use performance to help young people develop and grow. The program is 100% privately-funded. The GOAL program is a unique opportunity for students interested in community activism and performance. Please click here to read more about the positions available as well as to complete an online application.
Mission Statement
The All Stars Project, Inc. (ASP) is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance-based model. The ASP creates outside of school, educational and performing arts activities for thousands of poor and minority young people. It sponsors community and experimental theatre, develops leadership training and pursues volunteer initiatives that build and strengthen communities.
The ASP actively promotes supplementary education and the performance learning model in academic and civic areas.
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