A Message from Antoine "RL" Joyce:
As a first-time Director of this year's Young Leaders for Change Campaign, I want to personally invite you to join. Having spent the last 16 years of my life as part of the All Stars and being among the first group of youth to be honored as a young leader in 2000, this campaign means a lot to me. I was fortunate to have the programs of the All Stars to give me choices ...

On November 17th, our young people produced and performed in the third Chicago All Stars Talent Show this year. It was our largest to date with 150 performers, volunteers, and audience members. The performers ranged in age from five years old to late teens, and acts included mimes, spoken word, rap, and hip hop dance. The full-to-capacity audience at the South Side YMCA cheered the young people's creative and ...

Mayor Cory Booker Thanks New Jersey All Stars
Newark Mayor Cory Booker was the featured speaker at the New Jersey Development School for Youth Benefit Dinner on October 29th at the Robert Treat Hotel.  Before a sold-out room of 200 business people and philanthropists from across New Jersey, Mayor Booker praised the DSY and the All Stars Project as a leader in the effort to transform the lives of poor urban youth...

Youth Onstage! has just closed an incredible Fall Season!  Our first-ever touring production, Our City, was performed seven times between October and December throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.  YO!’s intrepid band of thirteen young actors started rehearsing the play way back in June at the All Stars center on 42nd Street—and they’ve been through a lot since then!  Each actor played at least three characters, sometimes more ...

On Wednesday, December 12th, the 44 members of the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth Fall 2007 class celebrated their graduation! The evening’s program, moderated by All Stars Board Member, Nathaniel Christian, III, began with words of welcome and congratulations from Susan Adinolfi, Director of the Corporate Resource Library, Merrill Lynch, and Scott Hill, Partner, Ernst & Young and co-chair of the DSY Board of Trustees ...

The All Stars' newest youth program, The Production of Youth By Youth (PYBY), has developed significantly this fall.  PYBY offers young people a chance to develop as producers, by showing them how New York City's cultural industry is produced and organized.  A key component of the program consists of site visits to some of the city's leading cultural institutions, where the young participants meet with and learn from top cultural producers ...

On Saturday, December 8th, the All Stars Talent Show Network (ASTSN) wrapped up its 2007 season with a knock-out performance at John Adams High School, in Ozone Park, Queens. Performing for a packed house of 700, 170 dancers, singers, rappers and steppers between the ages of 5 and 25 amazed the audience with their creative and innovative acts. Competition this cycle was especially hot, and included ...

This fall season, the Bay Area All Stars continued to grow and has received increased recognition for its work with young people from the Bay Area's poorest communities. On September 6th, Joyce Dattner, All Stars Project Board Member and Director of the Bay Area All Stars, received the "In Harmony with Hope Award" from the Elfenworks Foundation, whose mission is to bring domestic poverty to the top of the public agenda ...