Posted Saturday December 22 2012 at 10:31 am
in Education
New York Times, 12/18/2012
Written by Patricia Cohen
Photo by Kirsten Luce
Stationed in front of one of his large self-portraits, the artist Chuck Close raised his customized wheelchair to balance on two wheels, seeming to defy the laws of gravity.
The chair’s unlikely gymnastics underlined the points that Mr. Close was making to his audience, 40 seventh and eighth graders from Bridgeport, Conn.: Break the rules and use limitations to your advantage.
The message had particular resonance for these students, and a few educators and parents, who had come by bus on Monday from Roosevelt School to the Pace Gallery in Chelsea for a private tour of Mr. Close’s show. Roosevelt, located in a community with high unemployment and crushing poverty, recently had one of the worst
records of any school in the state, with 80 percent of its seventh graders testing below grade level in reading and math.
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Posted Saturday December 22 2012 at 08:07 am
in Education
Boston Globe, 12/20/2012
Written by Geoff Edgers/Globe Reporter
Photo by Josh Reynolds
The first time the students saw Adrian Anantawan play his violin, they were stunned. He had no right hand, and yet an attachment he called “the spatula” allowed him to play an arrangement of the Beatles song, “Yesterday.”
“I was astonished,” says Kelly Exilus, 11, a violist from Jamaica Plain and one of the students that spring day at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton. “I thought, ‘Wow.’ ”
Nobody at the school talks much these days about Anantawan’s right arm. They’re too busy practicing, while also learning a greater truth from their teacher: Music is the great equalizer.
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Posted Thursday December 20 2012 at 10:16 pm
in Cultural Inclusion
Broadway and Beyond is a musical revue of song, dance, poetry and beyond . . . bringing us back from the future to the heyday of Broadway and celebrating the capabilities and talents of the people of Cape Cod, including those with disabilities. When two people come back from the year 2045 to the present to encounter Broadway as it used to be, anything can happen!
Presented live at Cotuit Center for the Arts, showtimes are Saturday January 12, 2013 at 6pm and Sunday January 13, 2013 at 2pm. Tickets are $15 each.
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