 |  | 1. The All Stars Project is featured on PBS in New York City
2. An Interview with Julie Lenner, the All Stars Project's Director of Volunteer/Internship Recruitment & Training
3. “A Lifetime of Giving.” A profile of Gail Elberg, Director of Talented Volunteers
4. The All Stars’ newest initiative: The Research Center
5. The All Stars youth programs are featured in a new book by Dr. Derrick Bell
6. Report from Gloria Strickland on the All Stars in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
7. This is Your Ridiculous Life, the Castillo Theatre’s improv comedy in the news
8. Five Points Presents… a first season of offerings at the All Stars on 42nd Street
9. New Jersey’s All Stars Community Growing Strong
10. Report from Oakland All Stars
11. The Atlanta All Stars Talent Show is on the move!
12. Independent Culture Grows in Philadelphia
13. Report from Boston All Stars
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| The All Stars’ newest initiative: The Research Center |
| The newest initiative
of the All Stars Project is The Research Center, founded earlier
this year by Dr. Lenora Fulani, her long-time colleague Dr.
Lois Holzman, Director of the East Side Institute for Short
Term Psychotherapy, and Dr. Edmund Gordon, Director of the
Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College
Columbia University. Geared toward researchers, educators
and policy makers whose work concerns the failures of our
education and human services systems, the Center has a...
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| The All Stars youth programs are featured in a new book by Dr. Derrick Bell |
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Professor Derrick
Bell, Harvard’s first tenured black professor and veteran civil
rights lawyer, authored a new book entitled Silent Covenants:
Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial
Reform, in which he reflects critically on the function
and limitation of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education
decision. He writes about the All Stars Talent Show
Network and the Joseph A. Forgione Development
School for Youth as examples of successful youth educational
efforts today that motivate young people...
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| Report from Gloria Strickland on the All Stars in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) |
| For two years
the SJA, Stedelijk Jonger Enwerk Amsterdam (City Youth Workers
of Amsterdam), has presented Talent Shows in the One Day format.
Combining the audition, workshop and talent show into a one
day event the SJA reaches out to the youth in Amsterdam’s
community of color, people from former Dutch colonies in Africa
and the Caribbean...
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| This
is Your Ridiculous Life, the Castillo Theatre’s improv
comedy in the news |
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One of the wackiest
and original stage productions currently running in New York
City is This Is Your Ridiculous Life, an improvisational
comedy show at the All Stars 42nd Street performing
arts center. TIYRL features professional psychotherapists
who conduct live interviews with audience volunteers whose stories
become material for on-the-spot improvisations.
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| Five Points Presents… a first season of offerings at the All Stars on 42nd Street |
| Diane Stiles,
Castillo's Managing Director, explains that Five Points Presents…,
a new theatrical consortium of which Castillo is a part and
which is in residence at the All Stars Project, was initiated
by All Stars founder Fred Newman as part of the move to the
new Center. He envisioned the new All Stars Project Center
as a home for multicultural performance...
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| San Francisco/Oakland, CA All Stars Update |
| The All Stars
Talent Show at Oakland Technical High School on March 27th
was a huge success! There were 31 acts, 74 performers, 330
audience members and 48 volunteers. The show included a four-piece
band with four vocalists, which put the All Stars’ sound
team to the test! We showed two videos during the program,
"The Promise of Play" and...
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| The Atlanta All Stars Talent Show is on the move! |
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The "Rappin' Reality"
workshop led by Atlanta Producer, "Browneyes," and All Stars
Managing Producer, Collette Frix, is catching fire around the
Metro Atlanta Area! The workshop was invited to an emergency
children's shelter for 40 young people and staff; it was brought
in by a group of students at the GSU School of Social Work;
and was featured at an outdoor event in the Summerhill neighborhood.
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| Independent
Culture Grows in Philadelphia |
| Philadelphia's
"Theater For Everyone" project, produced by the
Philadelphia Committee for Independent Culture (PCIC), is
in the middle of its 8th season. PCIC’s Eighth Year Anniversary
Celebration, held in March, was a huge success and lots of
fun! It featured a retrospective/showcase of short scenes
from the plays of Fred Newman (the artistic director of New
York’s Castillo Theatre). The scenes were from the plays that
PCIC has produced over the... |
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| Report
from Boston All Stars |
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The Boston All Stars
held its first "Meeting the All Stars" event with Pamela A.
Lewis, National Producer of the All Stars Talent Show Network
and Director of Youth Programs for the All Stars Project. Over
twenty adults from the Boston metro area came to learn about
the history and philosophy of the All Stars Project. Ms. Lewis
shared her history as an African-American woman from a highly
academic family who decided to get "her Ph.D. on the streets
of New York" building opportunities for youth...
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The eNewsletter of the All Stars Project,
Inc. is published 4 times a year.
Editor-in Chief:
John Entrada Contributing writers:
Roger Grunwald
Karla Keffer
Robert Rossi |
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