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Derrick Bell interviews All Stars Project co-founder, Dr. Lenora
Fulani |
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“The Miracle of Motivation,” an invigorating three-part public
interview of Dr. Lenora Fulani, co-founder of the All Stars
Project, conducted by the distinguished civil rights activist-attorney
and Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School,
Derrick Bell, graced the stage of the Castillo Theatre, Tuesday,
November 16, Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 30,
2004. The three interviews were hosted by...
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| The
All Stars Talent Show Network breaks records in East Harlem! |
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Over 325 young performers wearing brightly-colored costumes,
and ranging in age from 5 to 25-years-old, performed for a
combined audience of close to two thousand friends, family
and community supporters during the afternoons of Saturday,
November 20 and December 4, 2004 at the Manhattan Center for
Science and Math High School in East Harlem. The events, sponsored
by the All Stars Talent Show Network (ASTSN), were the first...
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| A
Report from the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth |
| 2004 was another
banner year for the Joseph A. Forgione Development School
for Youth (DSY). On December 10, the DSY graduated its 16th
class of young leaders. Forty-one students from the DSY’s
Tuesday and Wednesday Fall semester classes, took part in
the graduation ceremony held at the New York offices of the
McGraw Hill Companies. During the summer of 2004, 134 DSY
graduates were placed in...
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| A
Fall/Winter Season of Performance and Development on 42nd
Street! |
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The season opened
at the All Stars’ 42nd Street performing arts and
education center with the Castillo Theatre production of Stealin’
Home (A Baseball Fantasy), written and co-directed by artistic
director, Fred Newman. The production, about the life and times
of Jackie Robinson, played to packed houses from its October
8 opening through its December 12 finale. Stealin’ Home received
continuous coverage in the press including... |
| Youth
Onstage!: The All Stars’ Youth Theatre Packs ‘Em In! |
| Youth Onstage!
(YO!), the newest program of the All Stars Project, Inc.,
which staged its first production ever in January 2004 (the
popular Crown Heights by Fred Newman and Dan Friedman),
has had a very active fall season. The second All Stars
Hip-Hop Cabaret, which YO! co-produced with the All Stars
Talent Show Network (ASTSN), opened on September 10. The cabaret’s
cast of 20 included artists from the first Hip-Hop Cabaret
in May — the poet Squeak, rapp...
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| What’s
Growing in the Garden State? – All Stars Project New Jersey |
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On Wednesday, November
3, the ASP NJ held its third annual Phat Friend Awards at the
Newark Club in downtown Newark, New Jersey. The event, which
was featured in the Star Ledger, honored eleven adults
and raised $115,000 for the All Stars Talent Show Network and
Development School for Youth programs that now reach more than
1,000 Newark-area youth a year. The Phat Friend Awards are presented
by All Stars youth to their community heroes... |
| Atlanta
All Stars Continues to Sink Its Roots in the Peachtree State |
| The Atlanta All
Stars held a very successful one-day performance event, Saturday,
November 6, at the Butler Street Community Center. Eighty
audience members were thoroughly entertained and excited by
the energetic performances of the young singers, dancers and
rappers on stage that day. Many new volunteers
also stepped forward to lead performance workshops and take
responsibility for developing the young people participating
in...
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| The
Latest News from the Bay Area All Stars |
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On October 6, "A
Partnership for Youth," the Bay Area Center for Independent
Culture’s (BACIC) second annual gala award’s dinner, benefiting
the Bay Area All Stars, was held at Scott's Seafood Restaurant
in Oakland's Jack London Square. The benefit was co-chaired
by BACIC President Joyce Dattner and BACIC President's Committee member
Jim Greene. The dinner raised $45,000, exceeding both its...
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All Stars – On the Move and Growing! |
| On September 29,
Boston All Stars held its first volunteer training attended
by young people from the August 7 Youth Performance Workshop,
led by All Stars Talent Show Network National Producer, Antoine
Joyce). The training gave the young volunteers an introduction
to the All Stars’ phone and street performance (community
outreach activity). A total of fifteen youth and adults came
to the training. Boston’s next event was the...
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