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Calendar 2003-2004
Saturday, November 1, 3:00 pm
Performance Party
Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square
Sunday, November 9, 7:30 pm
Providence String Quartet Benefit Concert
Bell Street Chapel
Saturday, December 13, 3:00 pm
Performance Party
Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square
Saturday, February 14, 3:00 pm
Performance Party
Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square
Monday, March 8
Special Event: "The Art of the Groove"
Turtle Island String Quartet Residency
4:00 pm Educational Demonstration
8:00 pm Concert
Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway
Saturday, April 3,
3:00 pm
Performance Party
Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square
May 7 & 8
Symposium: "Education, Art, and Freedom: An Exploration of Philosophy
and Pedagogy"
Hosted by Community
MusicWorks
Examining
Brazilian theorist Paulo Freire's impact on the development of educational
practice, the history of “emancipatory pedagogy,” and the important
role that the arts can play in bringing about freedom from oppression.
This
event is funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council
for the Humanities, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
Friday,
May 7, 7:00 pm
Forum, with Theodore
Sizer and Deborah Meier
RISD Auditorium
15 Canal Walk
Providence, RI
Free admission,
open to the public
To include a special screening
of "Exclusions & Awakenings: The Life of Maxine Greene"
in honor of Dr. Maxine Greene, preeminent American philosopher of
education and Founder of the Center for Social Imaginiation, the
Arts, and Education
Saturday, May
8, 10:00 am until 1:00 pm
Workshop for Educators,
led by Deborah Meier
The Met School, Peace Street Campus
362 Dexter Street
Providence, RI
Free admission,
reservations required Reserve
today by calling 401.861.5650
Theodore
Sizer, Professor Emeritus at Brown University and Visiting
Professor of Education at Harvard University, is the Founder and
Chair Emeritus of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Having worked
with hundreds of American high schools since the late 1970s, he
has written a number of books on the subject of redesigning public
schools, including Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American
High School. He isformerly the director of the Annenberg Institute
for School Reform.
Deborah
Meier, Founder of the
Central Park East Schools, is currently Co-Principal of the Mission
Hill School, a pilot elementary school in Roxbury, MA. A recipient
of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, she is among the most acclaimed
leaders of the school reform movement, having spent more than three
decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer,
and advocate. She is the author of several books, including The
Power of Their Ideas.
Please
note: previously scheduled participant Maxine Greene
is unable to attend due to illness.
Saturday, May 22, 3:00
pm
Performance Party
Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square
Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 pm
Providence String Quartet Concert
to benefit Community MusicWorks
Presented by Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts
Alumnae Hall, Brown University
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