CIRCLE 2013
What is new this summer?
Full partnership
with Hocking College. This increased
capacity gives us access to:
·
Professional,
Culinary kitchens so we can become a reimbursable, USDA summer food site
·
Computer
labs so we can capture data and blog with students efficiently
·
The INN
at Hocking College so we can serve
and eat meals and teach manners
·
Culinary
Staff, especially Dean, Master Chef
Alfonso Constrisciani (which has already captured the attention of Ohio University Press)
·
Free
use of fitness facility
·
College
scholarships for graduates
·
Robbins
Crossing for reenactments and gatherings for families
·
Bussing
and transportation
Possibly one of the greatest things a full
partnership with and access to Hocking College provides our students and
families, is the sense of ownership that being on the campus creates. College
and higher education will no longer be foreign and intimidating. Having been on
campus, students will naturally feel affinity to and comfort with the idea.
Hocking had a scholarship fund that was dormant, which will now be used for our
students. This is a tremendous opportunity.
Leadership Athens participants have developed a program model
for training high school students, four select Circle graduates, who will work
in the program this summer as interns. They
researched to find evidence-based curriculum with surveys to measure gains. The
program was designed to fit our needs, and includes five Nelsonville community
members to conduct sessions, and who also serve as mentors once interns
complete the program. This is imperative for students who will have little
opportunity or desire to leave the area after high school.
Leadership Training
means that Circle Graduates:
·
Will be
better prepared to solve their own problems, help others learn to solve
problems and become an agent for change in the community.
·
Will be
more employable, with work experience and references.
·
Will
have free college scholarships to Hocking College
·
Will be
better prepared to contribute and give back to community.
Ohio University Press Book Publishing:
Ohio University
Press has expressed a desire and keen interest in publishing a book about our arts-based
program and our community, and how we are working at a grass roots level to
educate and feed our at-risk children. The book will demonstrate how Circle
helps to effectively solve many problems facing small communities and explains:
·
How to
create healthy, inclusive communities
·
How to
feed children in summer and WHAT to feed them (recipes and garden tips)
·
How to
keep children engaged and minds and bodies active during summer
·
How to
provide arts education that has been cut. Our program offers 70 hours of arts
learning, which is nearly double that of the public schools who do offer art.
·
How to
create income for communities and at the same time provide badly needed
creative education (Tomorrows thinkers need creative problem solvers.)
·
How to
create leaders
·
How to
generate pride in community and facilitate harmony in families
·
Where
to go to find resources
·
How to
set up programming in any town, rural or urban.
·
How to
measure gains.
Book proceeds will
go to create scholarship funds and programming income streams to ensure that
Circle work can continue to nourish at-risk children in both rural and urban
communities.
New Partners:
Factory Street
Studios and Moving Parts in Athens, OH will provide in-kind dance instruction
and choreography 3x weekly at the Fitness Center. Parents will be treated to a
short dance performance at Stuart’s Opera House during the film gala. We feel
dance is an important component for young girls especially, to learn to be
dignified in and respectful of their bodies.
Measurement:
Building on surveys
created for us in 2010, we will conduct new surveys in 2013 that measure gains
on many levels in our students, community and families (see attachment.) While
we know the work we do has impact, it needs to be substantiated with new data –
especially because of our book publishing opportunity.
Program Particulars
Who:
Up to 60 students in the Nelsonville York City School District (NYCSD) entering
grades 5 through 11 (plus 5 pre-selected interns)
When: June 17 through July 19 Monday through Fridays 8:30 AM to 4
PM. Family night barbeque and swim at the Fitness Center and Film gala and art
opening July 25 at Stuart's Opera house
Where: On the square: the
First Presbyterian Church, Hocking College studios, Starbrick Clay, Paper
Circle, and the former Fair Furniture store.
At Hocking College: The Inn at Hocking College and their culinary
kitchens, the Hocking (student) fitness center and Robbins Crossing.
What: Up to 60 students from the Nelsonville-York City School
District will be provided a free-of-charge, holistic arts-based summer arts and
wellness enrichment program. Free bussing and meals will also be provided. Our
intensive rotation model allows for each student to pass through each studio
offering. All visual arts classes are taught to OH Department of Education
Visual Arts Standards. Rubrics and lessons plans will be developed. These and
all final reports will be posted to our website, along with all other data that
will be captured in the program. Students will be given art classes that exceed
in hours, those provided in traditional public schools. Students will learn
about nutrition and making healthy food and lifestyle choices, as well as how
to read food labels and comparative shopping labels in the store. They will
work in the garden and be given basic skills to plant their own. Access to and
opportunities for fitness activities are provided daily at Hocking College.
Students will work in professional kitchens with professional chefs, and learn
culinary skills, serving skills and table manners as the group comes together
daily to share a meal at The Inn at Hocking College. Families will be celebrate their child’s accomplishments at
the art exhibit held at Stuart’s Opera House during the Final Friday in July.
Studios on the square:
Painting:
Students will work with professional artist Terry Fortkamp to learn how to
paint a master copy. (A master copy is when students choose the work of a master
such as Rembrandt, create a grid, mix paint, and copy and paint what they see.)
Ceramics:
Students will work with longtime favorite, Ann Judy, to create "toad
houses." The toad house will be designed to go in the garden or yard and
will demonstrate a new understanding of architecture and form.
Design and Construction: Students will work with Aaron Smith to
create marionettes. Marionettes are an exercise in measurement, and
construction. The marionettes will be fully functional and students will be
encouraged to use them in their performing arts video.
Papermaking and printing: Students will work with curriculum
director Keith Wilde and Paper Circle resident artists, Anna Tarrarova, to make
paper by hand and to print images using screenprint techniques. Class will critique
the work and choose the best examples of each students work to be displayed at
Stuart's Opera house as a large quilts. Students will learn drawing and
printing basics. The images used on the screen will be transferred to a deck of
cards. Each student will receive a deck of cards created from scanned images
(chosen in critiques) to take home.
Nutrition art: Our Cooking and Gardening component of Circle Round the Square’s
summer program, taught by Wendy and Shelby Kaho, focuses on promoting better food choices and eating habits
among at-risk children in Nelsonville, Ohio. This includes hands-on cooking in
a professional kitchen led by three chefs, and involving students in menu
planning, budgeting, food preparation and cooking of the camp lunches. We will
develop a working community garden, publish a healthy cookbook as a
collaboration between the master chef and the students. In addition to kid-friendly, healthy recipes, our
classes will teach advanced kitchen skills, including knife skills, cooking
methods, and focus on safety, technique to give students the knowledge,
confidence and desire to get into the kitchen and to participate in family menu
planning and food shopping. We will use surveys at the beginning
and the end of camp to measure changes in attitudes towards healthy foods and
eating behaviors and administer pre and post tests on the skills of label
reading and comparison shopping to check the students understanding and
abilities to be good consumers.
Video performance art: Half our students will work with the above
instructors after morning classes have been completed, as well as filmmakers
from National Network of Forest Practitioners and editor Matt Byrne, and audio
engineer Galen Mullins, to produce high-art music videos. The challenge for the
younger groups will be to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The challenge
for the older group will be to create a moral tale from the story of Jack and
the Beanstalk. Music will be overlaid. This studio will run for two and half
weeks while the others are in culinary class, then they switch.
Theater Improvisation with Dan Dennis
Fitness: After lunch, students will be taken to the Hocking college fitness center every day, where they will be able to swim, play basketball, play tennis, dodgeball and volleyball, walk on the walking path, play ping-pong and boardgames, and where Factory Street Studios will offer daily dance classes for those interested. Dance will be performed at final show at Stuarts Opera house.
Theater Improvisation with Dan Dennis
Fitness: After lunch, students will be taken to the Hocking college fitness center every day, where they will be able to swim, play basketball, play tennis, dodgeball and volleyball, walk on the walking path, play ping-pong and boardgames, and where Factory Street Studios will offer daily dance classes for those interested. Dance will be performed at final show at Stuarts Opera house.
Hocking college will
host at Robbins crossing historical reenactment for all families on the last
day of the program. Field trips will include local farms and museums. Final
field trip will be either to COSI or Splashdown depending on the weather.
Stuart’s Opera House: An art opening and show at Stuart’s during
the Final Friday art walk shows off the amazing work created in each studio.
Families and peers attend and feel great pride while looking at their
children’s accomplishments.
