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Are the classes during the day or in the evening? Weekdays or weekends? |
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The classes take place during the hours that children are out of school. Class times are decided according to shelter needs and artist availability, and can be during the week or on Saturdays. |
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Who works for BuildaBridge? |
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BuildaBridge is a primarily a volunteer organization with a growing professional staff. We enlist and maintain the help of over 50 professional artists, arts educators, and community arts practitioners from Philadelphia and around the US. |
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Are staff and others paid or volunteer? |
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BuildaBridge staff is a mix of paid employees, AmeriCorps VISTA workers and volunteers. While some positions have a stipend/salary, BuildaBridge relies heavily on volunteers to successfully run the organization, so many of the artist teachers, assistants and others volunteer their time.
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Do artists teach their own curriculum or is there a standard BuildaBridge curriculum? |
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Certain programs, such as Create! Opportunity, have established curriculum that is taught. While BuildaBridge does have a few other standardized curriculum courses, for the most part, teachers supply and implement their own curriculum. BuildaBridge staff has set particular standards and requirements that each curriculum must meet, and the proposed curriculum should be approved before being implemented.
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What type of training does BuildaBridge supply? |
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BuildaBridge requires that each of their volunteers/ teachers participate in a basic training that covers an orientation to the organization, the mission and overall goals that have been established. This training also covers basic, arts-integrated curriculum writing, working with at-risk youth and classroom management. BuildaBridge also holds an annual Institute that supplies a much more in-depth coverage of these topics, as well as others.
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What is the BuildaBridge Institute? |
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BuildaBridge Institute is a research and training program for community leaders, youth workers, ministers, teachers and artists that want to integrate the arts effectively in community-based service and church community mission. BuildaBridge Institute seeks to harness the power of the arts for community outreach and congregational transformation by bringing faith and art to practical life contexts. Eastern University offers credit towards a MA in Urban Studies for attending BuildaBridge Institute.
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What countries has BuildaBridge worked in? |
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BuildaBridge has taken choirs to Costa Rica and Egypt, worked in prisons in Guatemala, participated in a Muslim-Christian Youth Exchange in the Netherlands and has worked in the Republic of Georgia, Brazil, Rwanda, Malaysia, South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic. We also maintain extensive contacts with artists and organizational partners worldwide.
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What does international work look like? |
BuildaBridge International is divided into four programs:
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Arts Relief and RestorationThe mission of Arts Relief and Restoration is to provide, through the arts, a sense of normalcy, bring emotional healing, provide aesthetic nourishment and develop holistic health of children that have experienced traumatic circumstances as a result of war and catastrophic events around the world
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BuildaBridge InstituteThe BuildaBridge Institute,
offered internationally on location, provides training and workshops to
artists abroad. Around the world, BuildaBridge professionals teach
artists how to use their gifts as an instrument for help, education and
aid. Artists trained by BuildaBridge professionals then implement the
skills learned in working for social development in their communities.
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Goodwill ToursGoodwill tours provide overseas concert tour
opportunities for US-based performance groups. BuildaBridge
International partners with the group to promote and advocate its
mission overseas and, at the same time, bring an experience of the arts
internationally.
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Cross-Cultural Discovery ToursThese trips are
especially for those who wish to broaden their understanding of other
cultures and experience firsthand the lives of people around the world.
The Cross-Cultural Discovery Tour enables BuildaBridge to promote its
mission and activities overseas by bringing people from different
cultures face to face.
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