PAAP Culminating Events!
PS 186 Q – Finale Dance Performance (June 6th)
Participants learn the fundamental skills of a ballroom dance style and the history and cultural context behind it. Students are encouraged to act as mentors, teaching their parents what they have learned through in-school instruction. The culminating event will include an international pot luck dinner and live band, dancing and a performance by the class attendees. All participants are invited to demonstrate what they have learned at a culminating performance for the PS 186 community.
Newcomers High School 555 Q – Culminating Reception of Parents’ Artwork (June 7th)
The program includes three hands-on photography workshops where parents and students collect images reflecting their family life, neighborhood and greater community, eventually learning photography and storyboarding skills to create a photo essay reflecting their experience in New York City and in their Queens neighborhood. A culminating event allows participants to display their work for a daytime reception at the Queens Museum of Art.
PS 77 M – Final Gala Event for Families (June 5th at 6:00 pm)
Using contemporary art in the Whitney Museum’s collections as examples, parents and students experiment with unusual media as they design an art project together and explore methods of creating and/or altering space with their mixed media materials. A Gala Art Exhibition allows participants to display their completed projects for an evening at the Museum.
PS 721 Q – Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Opening of Spring Craft Fair (May 29th)
The school’s “Creative Card Art by Parents” PAAP program includes three 3-session workshop series supporting the creation of handmade cards. Parents and students are encouraged to develop their own handmade greeting cards; the school is planning a grand opening of a ‘parent’ line of cards at the school boutique, and participants will sell the cards at the Spring Craft Fair.
PS/IS 95 K – Final Dedication Ceremony (June 24th)
The workshops, centered on the theme of personal memory and storytelling, encourage participants to provide poems, stories and pictures from their own lives as content for quilt squares. Hands-on quilting instruction is given in stitching, block construction, and fabric layout. A final dedication ceremony unveils the quilt for the PS/IS 95 community.
PS 206 K – Concert for Strings (May 27th)
PS 206’s “String Fling VI” is a 12-session program offering violin instruction to parents and students in all grades, as well as to alumnae of the school and their families. The final performance will be a concert at the PS 206 auditorium and will feature two honorees – NYC Councilmember Lew Fidler and Paul Ash, for contributions to violin study at PS 206.
For more information, contact parents@cae-nyc.org or call us at (212) 971-3300 x 327.
