AIRF - Carpe Diem Youth ArtBeat Weeks and After School Programs
The African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation (AIRF) was founded in 1999 to facilitate the transition of African immigrant youth and families to American society and to support their productive, sustainable integration.
Carpe Diem Arts collaborates with AIRF in Youth ArtBeat at Park Montgomery Apartments in Silver Spring, MD, and at the Essex House Apartments in Takoma Park, MD. This collaboration takes place at afterschool homework clubs Monday through Thursday during the year, and two one-week summer arts enrichment summer camps. These programs center around the themes of identity, culture and positive youth development. Students experience a broad range of hands-on arts activities with visiting artists, like African drumming, dance, storytelling, theater, songwriting, musical instruments, book-making, simple loom weaving, journaling, and harmony-singing. The students receive weekly instruction in playing the ukulele by a visiting teaching artist, and each student receives his or her own ukulele to use and keep.
Please contact us for more information.
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