BuildaBridge Institute 2008

Transforming Lives Through the Creative Arts
Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr, PA
June 4-8, 2008 (Open Institute)
June 4-11, 2008 (MA Graduate Residency)

BuildaBridge Institute prepares practitioners to effectively integrate the arts in education and community development.

I am working on lesson plans, and I want to send a special thanks. The training facilitated on assessments has really done wonders for my ability to develop quality curriculum and lesson plans! I LOVE RUBRICS! I LOVE RUBRICS!!! Learning how to correctly create them has really changed my life. Seriously, my classes are so much more effective because my lessons are so much more focused to the needs of the children. Please continue to offer quality training like this. Thank you! With Love, Brandi

artists, youth workers, community and congregational leaders, social service professionals,
after school and nonprofit organization personnel

Two simultaneous tracks:

New course offerings in the theory and practice of arts in transformation.
New faculty from a variety of arts-integrated fields in education, social work, and healing.

Courses include:

Foundations for Arts in Transformation
Arts and Human Development, Arts in Education, Arts in Healing (New),
Arts in Social Services (New),
Arts and Spirituality
Leadership Practicum (New).
Art-making takes place through classes in music, dance, drama, visual arts, banner-making, and creative writing. We will also have our very popular and unique
Methods Lab Practicum where students and participants observe and assist a lead teacher in a direct arts service program with youth in a local homeless shelter.
Cross-Cultural Skills for Community and Overseas Service (New)
Organization for Community Arts featuring collaborative work and fund-raising.
The Healing Place, a drama-based training program for responding to trauma in children, will also be introduced.

Act-48, undergraduate and graduate credit is available through Eastern University.

Class size is limited. Reserve your space in advance. Full registration, which includes all course work, textbooks and supplies, is $450 for early applicants (by February 22) and $500 for late applicants (by May 20). An additional $250 covers 4 nights of room and board at Bryn Mawr College (overnight accommodation, 3 meals/day). A single day rate of $150 includes registration and 2 meals. Full Institute commuters can pay $113 for all meals (commuter meals include lunches and dinners from Wednesday to Saturday and lunch on Sunday). If you would like to register, email institute@buildabridge.org , or call 215-842-0428 ext. 11 and ask for a registration form. Online registration and credit card payment.

The Institute provides:

Professional Development for Teaching Artists
Leadership Training for Social Service and After-School Program Staff
Skills Preparation for Cross-Cultural and Overseas Service
Community Arts Programming for the Non-Artist
Arts & Curriculum Integration for Teachers
Foundations for Arts and Transformation
Arts, Creativity, and Human Development
Arts and Spiritual Development

Purpose

BuildaBridge Institute is a research and training institute for community leaders, youth workers, ministers, teachers and artists that want to integrate the arts effectively in community-based service and church community mission. The Institute seeks to harness the power of the arts for community outreach and congregational transformation by bringing faith and art to life contexts. BuildaBridge Institute was formerly known as the Institute for the Church and Community Arts. We have changed the name to better reflect the broader scope of participants involved in the program.

We recognize the value artists and the arts have in transforming people and communities. We also recognize the lack of training and education available to many professional and lay artists (university educated included) in how to work within communities that present unusual challenges of economic, political and social injustice. BuildaBridge Institute is designed to meet the needs of artists, church leaders, community leaders and educators who want to integrate the arts effectively in community-based service and church community mission.

Program

The Institute is offered in an annual five-day residence. Currently, BuildaBridge Institute is offered in Philadelphia; however, a similar program is offered abroad through BuildaBridge International.

Courses are offered in 1.5 to 2 hour blocks throughout the day, where participants are engaged in interactive classes. Participants choose from foundational theory, applied arts methods and art skills classes.

BuildaBridge Institute enlists and maintains the help of over 30 professional artists, arts educators and community arts practitioners from Philadelphia and around the US to teach courses in the Institute. Volunteers assist with the general operations of the program.

The Institute is funded through registrations, local grants, educational and professional collaborations. Philadelphia co-sponsors have included the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (Division of Community Based Prevention Services), The Philadelphia Association of Christian Schools, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Conwell Inn, The Corner Bakery, Songhai Press, The Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, St. Paul's Baptist Church and the Campolo School for Social Change at Eastern University, Philadelphia.

Undergraduate and graduate credit and ACT48 Teacher Certification credit are available through Eastern University. A Seminary Certificate is offered through Palmer Theological Seminary.

View a Report of Institute 07 by downloading the PDF Institute_07

Click here to view the 2008 Institute Schedule

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