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- All Stars Project National Gala Benefit Raises $1.4 Million
- ASP of New York, Talent Show Network Kicks Off New Cycle in the Bronx
- All Stars Partners with the Business Community to Place 285 Inner-City Youth in Paid Summer Internships in New York, New Jersey and Chicago
- ASP of NY, Youth Onstage! Takes on the Congo
- A Season of Play at Castillo
- ASP of NY, PYBY Meets Cultural Professionals
- ASP of NY, Talented Volunteers
- The All Stars Project of New Jersey – Grows in All Directions
- ASP of Chicago Launches the Development School for Youth
- ASP of San Francisco/Bay Area Expands its Reach
- Boston All Stars Starts the Year Off With a Bang!
- The “New Timers” Offer Development at Every Age
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| ASP of New York, Talent Show Network Kicks Off New Cycle in the Bronx |
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Our young performers are getting ready for the spring cycle of the ASP of New York, Talent Show Network, which will be held in the Bronx. Our last Bronx show brought out a variety of acts and performers from all over New York City. Performance themes ranged from classic to contemporary, even futuristic. For the past few Saturdays, members of the ASTSN outreach team, led by All Stars Project board member, Kathy Fiess ...
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| ASP of NY, Youth Onstage! Takes on the Congo |
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For its first production of 2009, the ASP of NY, Youth Onstage! took on its most ambitious challenge to date: A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire. This epic play, about the struggle for independence in the Congo and the life of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, featured 24 performers, most of them drawn from the various youth programs of the All Stars Project. Under the direction of Youth Onstage! program manager Brian Mullin ....
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| A Season of Play at Castillo |
| The Castillo Theatre continues to work and play well with others in our 2008-2009 season “Castillo Performs the World”. This spring Castillo is hosting a production from the legendary Negro Ensemble Company, Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things by Leslie Lee, and directed by one of our closest cultural partners, Woodie King, Jr. (May 15-June 7). We're also hosting “Improv at Castillo,” an improvisational triple-header on May 9 ... |  |
| ASP of NY, PYBY Meets Cultural Professionals |
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The spring 2009 semester of the ASP of NY, Production of Youth by Youth (PYBY), our developing producers program, got off to a great start with a workshop led by the Castillo Theatre’s managing director, Diane Stiles, along with resident set and video designer Joe Spirito and sales director Gail Peck. The two-hour session included coming up with design ideas for a hypothetical production of A Season in the Congo and ..
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| ASP of NY, Talented Volunteers |
| Volunteerism at the All Stars Project has been our driving force from Day 1. Now, 28 years later, volunteering is at an all-time high with folks from all walks of life lending their hand to grow the All Stars programs. Our fastest-growing Talented Volunteer program has launched its 15th annual citywide Bowl-a-thon: Bowling for Youth Development. The 2009 Bowl-a-thon will take place on Sunday, June 14th at Leisure Time Lanes at Port Authority. ...
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| The All Stars Project of New Jersey – Grows in All Directions |
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On January 19, 2009 the ASP of NJ, Youth Onstage! program held its first performance at the Spot Lounge in Newark. The NJ YO! ensemble debuted their original play, A Timeless Dream, as a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to two sold-out audiences. The ensemble has grown to 15 performers this spring. Their next production will be Fred Newman’s Left of the Moon, which will be performed in early June. The play will be ...
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| ASP of Chicago Launches the Development School for Youth |
| The ASP of Chicago launched its Development School for Youth (DSY) this spring. Father Michael Pfleger was among the speakers at the orientation at Latham & Watkins in the Sears Tower. Other speakers included Stacy Cashman, senior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet; Cynthia Smith, Vice President at MetLife; Jeffrey Bakker, partner at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg; and Professor Robert Halpern of the Erikson Institute for Child Development. DSY ...
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| ASP of San Francisco/Bay Area Expands its Reach |
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The All Stars Project of the San Francisco Bay Area spent January and February conducting outreach in the Bayview/Hunters Point and Mission neighborhoods of San Francisco, some of the city’s poorest communities. Dr. Elouise Joseph, youth programs manager, led her talented team of volunteers to recruit young people at busy street corners, festivals, and fairs. Four auditions were held in local recreation centers from late ...
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| Boston All Stars Starts the Year Off With a Bang! |
| Boston All Stars kicked off 2009 with a Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration where young people wrote letters to both Dr. King and President Obama about their dreams for themselves, their community, and the world and performed them to an enthusiastic audience at the Freedom House in Dorchester. The Boston All Stars just started its fifth talent show cycle; the next audition is Saturday, May l6th and the talent show will ... |  |
| The “New Timers” Offer Development at Every Age |
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We are The New Timers! Turns out that “senior citizen” or even “senior,” except when it comes to those half-priced bus and movie tickets, are not labels that older people favor. For us, New Timers captures the enthusiasm, vitality, and creativity of this three year-old program for older New Yorkers. Fifteen to twenty older people come together each week to play and explore issues of growth and development for older Americans...
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