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Buildabridge Community
BuildaBridge Community provides arts-integrated intervention and education to children and families in underserved communities in Philadelphia. In collaboration with local schools, community centers, transitional homes, and religious congregations, BuildaBridge Community delivers life skills training, artistic educational experiences, and therapeutic intervention through art-making in music, drama, dance, creative writing, and the visual arts.  We have four primary foci:  Create! Discovery, Create! Opportunity, Create! Healing and our new capital project the Community Studio.

Artology 2008

Artology Students Exhibit Original Art Works in Kensington

 

kid and birds.jpgPhiladelphia, PA – July 22, 2007 – The apprehension of 24 city youth, ages 9 to 14, quickly turned to delight as they clambered over the rocky Wissahickon creek bed on a recent steamy Monday afternoon. Despite living just minutes away from Fairmount Park, the country’s largest urban park system, many of these young people had never been in a creek before.

 

The students are taking part in an innovative summer camp, Artology, now in its second year, sponsored by BuildaBridge, a nonprofit arts intervention and education organization based in Germantown. At Artology, a dynamic, holistic educational program integrating art and biology, students explore the city’s natural and cultural resources while developing artistic and academic skills. Art work they create during the 3-week camp will be displayed for public viewing at an art exhibit opening Friday evening, August 1, at Coral Street Arts House in Kensington.

 

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