CEC GoFundMe Fall Finale!
Tax deductible
Dear CEC Family,
Spring Into Action GIVE TO CEC ARTS, is our first crowd-funding campaign. Over the course of this six week campaign we will bring you some stories of our past, share with you current events that you won’t want to miss and look forward to our future!
We are asking for your financial and moral support to keep the center going. These are challenging times on many levels and it is more important than ever that we work to support the arts and the CEC as an important arts institution. IF you already know the CEC you can click DONATE NOW and make your contribution. IF you would like to know more about what we are doing and the programs that your contributions will support read on...
The Community Education Center, more commonly known as the CEC, is an artists’ incubator and a bastion of creative activity! Located in West Philly’s University City in the federally designated Promise Zone, the center is housed in a former Quaker Meetinghouse and school built in 1901. As a nonprofit community art center the CEC has a 43-year history of community engagement.
The CEC brings people together in our physical 'space' while creating the conceptual space for artists to make work and share their work. Long before the phrase “artists incubator” became popular, the CEC was an innovator with exceptional programming, supporting performing artists in the development and presentation of their work and engaging community members across the divide of economic, cultural, and gender differences like no other space in the city. The CEC continues to play an important role in the lives of hundreds of artists and thousands of community members each year.
Your contributions will help the CEC continue to Serve Artists and Communities by:
o Offering the dance and theatre artists of our community a place to create and present their work through the CEC residency programs that provide free space and technical assistance:
· DANCE
Dance Artist-in-Residence-two 3 year awards:
Putty Dance Project (Lauren Putty White & Brent White) and FlyGround (Lela Aisha Jones)
· THEATRE
Urban Theatre Today Residency Program-3 year award: first recipient First World Theatre Ensemble (Founder and Artistic Director Zuhairah McGill)
· PLAYWRITING
Ed Shockley, Resident Playwright
· VISUAL ARTS
Randy Dalton, Resident Visual Artist
o Presenting affordable live performances.
o Being a home to the West African dance and drumming community, engaging the community to help preserve the cultural heritage of African Americans.
o Presenting DanceAfrica Philadelphia, returning in 2016!
o Partnering with some of the finest working artists in the city to offer 12 weekly ongoing classes for the community in dance, theatre and martial arts for all ages, all year around. The teaching roster includes:
Ron Wood (Capoeira), Buster Adams/Latin Nation (salsa dance), Cachet Ivey (West African dance), Hannibal Newby/360 Flava (breakin’ open practice), Maggie Newmen (Tai Chi), Kyle & Dinita Clark (street dance), Jamie Merwin/olive Dance Theatre (open breakin’ practice), Rick Horner & Milkshake/ The Incubator (improv theatre ), Tomas Dura (Flamenco), Brigitta Herrmann & Manfred Fischbeck (Friday Night Group Motion Workshop), Yalani Bangora & Daryl “Kwasi” Burgee (West African dance), and Senseis David Yang & Robert Klotz (Kendo).
o Partnering with the founders of Artists Revealed Creatively to offer the ARC Summer Dance and Theatre Intensive (Founders and Artistic Directors Faizah and Oberon Adjepong) for youth ages 14-18 and Summer Dance for ages 6-8, & 9-13.
o Partnering with Leo Gadson and the Producer’s Guild to present live jazz at the CEC through the 2nd Fridays on Lancaster Avenue Jazz Series, the Youth Jazz Program, and other special events.
o Providing a home base the Pure Dance Project (Founder and Artistic Director Itola Bryd)
o Providing a home for the city’s oldest continuously operated dance company, Group Motion.
o Providing a rehearsal home for the city’s foremost African dance company, Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble.
o Providing space for performances, rehearsal, auditions, meetings and special events for upwards of 400 artists each year.
o Hosting ongoing programs: the Philadelphia Dramatists Center (Writers’ Circle and Primary Stages), acting classes with William Bickley /The Arts Group and Ozzie Jones, as well as improv theatre group Open Circle Intergenerational Practice.
o Providing space for community meetings including the Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association and the Black Gay Men’s Leadership Group.
Associated Artists and Organizations:
Sheila Zagar-dance
Angel "Sadio" Watson
Anna Rubio/Flamenco del Encuentro
Kash Goins-theatre
LaQuanda Movemeant-theatre
Lil’ Filmmakers-media arts
Joanna Turner–tap dance
Ravel King-praise dancer and choreographer
Tap Team II-Corinne Karron and Robert Burden
Betty Leacraft-fiber artist
Martina Plag-puppeteer
Rennie Harris RHAW-hip hop dance
Hip Hop Fundamentals-dance education
THANK YOU FOR GETTING INVOLVED & FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!
All contributions are tax deductible. CEC's United Way Donor Code #2617
For more information – www.cecarts.org
Spring Into Action GIVE TO CEC ARTS, is our first crowd-funding campaign. Over the course of this six week campaign we will bring you some stories of our past, share with you current events that you won’t want to miss and look forward to our future!
We are asking for your financial and moral support to keep the center going. These are challenging times on many levels and it is more important than ever that we work to support the arts and the CEC as an important arts institution. IF you already know the CEC you can click DONATE NOW and make your contribution. IF you would like to know more about what we are doing and the programs that your contributions will support read on...
The Community Education Center, more commonly known as the CEC, is an artists’ incubator and a bastion of creative activity! Located in West Philly’s University City in the federally designated Promise Zone, the center is housed in a former Quaker Meetinghouse and school built in 1901. As a nonprofit community art center the CEC has a 43-year history of community engagement.
The CEC brings people together in our physical 'space' while creating the conceptual space for artists to make work and share their work. Long before the phrase “artists incubator” became popular, the CEC was an innovator with exceptional programming, supporting performing artists in the development and presentation of their work and engaging community members across the divide of economic, cultural, and gender differences like no other space in the city. The CEC continues to play an important role in the lives of hundreds of artists and thousands of community members each year.
Your contributions will help the CEC continue to Serve Artists and Communities by:
o Offering the dance and theatre artists of our community a place to create and present their work through the CEC residency programs that provide free space and technical assistance:
· DANCE
Dance Artist-in-Residence-two 3 year awards:
Putty Dance Project (Lauren Putty White & Brent White) and FlyGround (Lela Aisha Jones)
· THEATRE
Urban Theatre Today Residency Program-3 year award: first recipient First World Theatre Ensemble (Founder and Artistic Director Zuhairah McGill)
· PLAYWRITING
Ed Shockley, Resident Playwright
· VISUAL ARTS
Randy Dalton, Resident Visual Artist
o Presenting affordable live performances.
o Being a home to the West African dance and drumming community, engaging the community to help preserve the cultural heritage of African Americans.
o Presenting DanceAfrica Philadelphia, returning in 2016!
o Partnering with some of the finest working artists in the city to offer 12 weekly ongoing classes for the community in dance, theatre and martial arts for all ages, all year around. The teaching roster includes:
Ron Wood (Capoeira), Buster Adams/Latin Nation (salsa dance), Cachet Ivey (West African dance), Hannibal Newby/360 Flava (breakin’ open practice), Maggie Newmen (Tai Chi), Kyle & Dinita Clark (street dance), Jamie Merwin/olive Dance Theatre (open breakin’ practice), Rick Horner & Milkshake/ The Incubator (improv theatre ), Tomas Dura (Flamenco), Brigitta Herrmann & Manfred Fischbeck (Friday Night Group Motion Workshop), Yalani Bangora & Daryl “Kwasi” Burgee (West African dance), and Senseis David Yang & Robert Klotz (Kendo).
o Partnering with the founders of Artists Revealed Creatively to offer the ARC Summer Dance and Theatre Intensive (Founders and Artistic Directors Faizah and Oberon Adjepong) for youth ages 14-18 and Summer Dance for ages 6-8, & 9-13.
o Partnering with Leo Gadson and the Producer’s Guild to present live jazz at the CEC through the 2nd Fridays on Lancaster Avenue Jazz Series, the Youth Jazz Program, and other special events.
o Providing a home base the Pure Dance Project (Founder and Artistic Director Itola Bryd)
o Providing a home for the city’s oldest continuously operated dance company, Group Motion.
o Providing a rehearsal home for the city’s foremost African dance company, Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble.
o Providing space for performances, rehearsal, auditions, meetings and special events for upwards of 400 artists each year.
o Hosting ongoing programs: the Philadelphia Dramatists Center (Writers’ Circle and Primary Stages), acting classes with William Bickley /The Arts Group and Ozzie Jones, as well as improv theatre group Open Circle Intergenerational Practice.
o Providing space for community meetings including the Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association and the Black Gay Men’s Leadership Group.
Associated Artists and Organizations:
Sheila Zagar-dance
Angel "Sadio" Watson
Anna Rubio/Flamenco del Encuentro
Kash Goins-theatre
LaQuanda Movemeant-theatre
Lil’ Filmmakers-media arts
Joanna Turner–tap dance
Ravel King-praise dancer and choreographer
Tap Team II-Corinne Karron and Robert Burden
Betty Leacraft-fiber artist
Martina Plag-puppeteer
Rennie Harris RHAW-hip hop dance
Hip Hop Fundamentals-dance education
THANK YOU FOR GETTING INVOLVED & FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!
All contributions are tax deductible. CEC's United Way Donor Code #2617
For more information – www.cecarts.org
Organizer
Terri Shockley
Organizer
Philadelphia, PA
Community Education Center CEC
Beneficiary