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COLLABORACTION THEATRE COMPANY
Collaboraction will partner to produce a free youth program, SUMMER LIGHTS OPEN MIC celebration for up to 200 Chicago youth at Hamilton Park, 513 W 72nd St, Chicago, IL 60621 on Saturday 19th from 12 - 5 featuring: free food, youth vendor fair, teen open mic competition with a $500 cash prize. The event will be co-produced by the youth groups at Collaboraction (The Light) and Hamilton Park and will welcome youth from the Englewood community and throughout the city. The event will utilize the cabaret theatre and mainstage theater at Theatre Y and will include a sponsorship from AV Chicago for free light, sound and video equipment. There will also be participation prizes for the open mic and dance battle tournament. Collaboraction and Hamilton Park have the capacity to take on this mission-based opportunity and will be able to mobilize our existing youth programs to serve as a foundation for this additional programming opportunity.
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300 Block Club Lotus
We are committed to ensuring that all children have access to high-quality early childhood education and services, which will better prepare them for success in elementary, middle school and throughout their lives. We collaborate with other national leaders, such as St. Agatha - Dreambuilder, The News School, and The Chicago Leader with a similar goal in mind for the development of children in childhood education. August 17th- Day1: - The Chicago Tribune or The Sun Time - This field trip will be to the Chicago Tribune facility to see how reporting happens. And the processes that take place from the story to print. This Field trip will take place in one day with youth 16-24. Trip time will range approx. 4hrs with (42) students (10 am - 2 pm) including lunch on-site provided. This allows us to deliver high-caliber programs that assist in the development of children to support their educational enrollment, thereby ensuring that their futures will be successful. August 20th - Day2: - Student Graduation Celebration and Back to School bash - This will celebrate students' completion of the summer News School Course. As well as host a back to school bash with serving the North Lawndale area And will range approx 5hrs with (42) students (10 am - 3 pm) food, games, and refreshments will be provided on-site. September 10th - Day 3: Students will interview with a practicing artist studio instructor and partake in a 2-hour collage workshop. Food will be provided. Time: 11:30-2:30pm Time: 3 hours
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Fathers Who Care
Too Good for Violence and Summer Anti-Violence Engagement Programs - During this program period we will facilitate pop-up anti-violence and CAN TV activities in our community combined efforts to provide young people with 20 to 24 weeks of anti-violence and community development activities and programming on via our Community Leadership meetings, CAN TV 21 shows and Violence Prevention activities. Our young people and community leaders will work together to discuss and plan activities and topics that are of concerns such as reducing senseless violence, public safety, and substance abuse.
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Project Purity
This summer Project Purity has ran a six-week wellness youth program engaging youth ages 14 to 19 years old. Youth learned about six targeted areas of wellness: mental, emotional, physical and relational/communal health. Project Purity is applying for a three day Labor Day event in which youth will partake in a culminating celebration, a wellness retreat. This wellness retreat will focus on the six elements of wellness that they journeyed through, throughout the summer. Activities will include, connecting with mentors, participating in team-building exercises, exploring nature, creating wellness plans, and displaying their final wellness capstone projects.
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Westside Cultural Alliance
Westside Cultural Alliance Boxing Collaboration is a Boxing and Fitness Training Program which is a Youth Violence Initiative.
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Star Farm Chicago
Star Farm Chicago, a 501(c)3 urban farm located in Back of the Yards, will host a series of four events that will engage local kids and youth through the activation of our urban farm and brick-and-mortar Fresh Market. Our programs will include: a movie night (tentatively slated for August 14th) - snacks and food included - which will activate the Fresh Market space that we share with Free Street Theater, as well as increased programming at our Fresh Market pop-ups on August 11th and 18th. Additional programming at these pop-ups will include cooking demonstrations, seedlings workshops, produce giveaways, and additional activities for kids. We will also host an Art in the Garden event, led by Star Farm's Artist in Residence, Mario Meno, on August 19th. We will use funds to cover the cost of a projector and screen, as well as costs associated with staffing, produce giveaways, materials for bucket garden/seedling giveaways, cooking demos, art supplies, event food, and marketing materials. As an organization with more than six years of programming experience, a deep understanding of the needs of our community’s children and youth, and a staff comprised of community members, many who are parents of children and youth that live in this neighborhood, we have the capacity to provide support to children and youth during the gap between Park District summer programming ends and CPS resumes.
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Austin Adams Block Club
The Austin Adams Block Club is a current recipient of the 2023 Safe & Peaceful Fund. With this grant, we look to enhance leadership skills in the youth who are currently in our programs. The youth in our program consists of 10 college and high school students who have met to decide what type of youth-led programming they wanted to see. Besides helping to plan and design the Labyrinth in the Austin Green Team's community garden, the youth will lead with the designing, planning, and execution of several community activations, including a small Labor Day Musical in the Park.
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Kells Park Community Council
We have different events each month to keep our youth involved. For the month of August, we are reaching out to the youths to see what more we can do to keep them interested and their minds occupied with no violence. We have planned an event called Fortnite Express. We have plans to set up four games on a Thursday evening and see if the children will compete. With them trying to reach the prize. We are offering 3 prizes, from 100.00 to 75.00 and 25.00. the next week in August we will have the paint and sip where the children will paint and try to win prizes. The same dollar amounts. We are doing these events to see what the youths want. We are having a Thursday so we can see how the events are received. The youth are busy every day not just weekends, so we are trying to factor on Thursdays to their busy schedules.