Untitled - The Point

2009
2010
Alyan Martinez
Andres Vallecillo
Deanny Diaz
Deborah Garcia
Jabari Emers
Jared Prioleau
Josafat Moreira
Jose Rodriguez
Jacob Martinez
Group
B
Anthony Rodriguez
Alexandra Rivera
Cordel Davidson
Daniel Gonazalez
Elijah Guerrier
Emily Carrera
Lizbeth Gomez
Marcus Hunter
Noelia Dume
Randy Marin
Group
C
Carlos Delgado
Mathew Baez
Pedro Lopez
Robert Sola
Taja Graves-Parker
Yanytza Batista
Yaxeny Hernandez
Micheal Nunez
Group
A
Group
D
Group
E
Group
F
Cassandra Grullon
Chasity Ayala
Crystal Diamond
Fairouza Mamadou
Janasia Allen
Jason Solis
Javier Roman
Jeremy Carrera
Jeremy Morales
Juan Sanchez
Aeryanne Diaz
Breta Paul
Britney Cuevas
Justin Vargas
Khilali Marquez
Maxiel Madora
Pernell Robbins
Richard Ochoa
Rodrigo Avila
Damien Vallecillo
Daniel Hunter
Diamond Scott
Juan Marin
Khadijza Farnell
Peter Rivera
Tajanae Harris
Jesus Negron
Erykah Solano
Bradlee Toran
Teacher: Mr. Ernesto Nuñez
Literacy
One of the literacy program’s biggest goals this year was to stimulate a new
exciting position on reading. Through additions like The NEA Big Read, students in groups D & F participated in lessons that involved cooking, games,
and online research. This enabled students to make connections between the
text and some of their personal interests. Groups A, B, & C achieved this
goal as well by creating their own texts. Group A worked on many different
phonetic rules (long and short vowel sounds and letter recognition) and ended the year by each student creating their own alphabet book. Groups B & C
also put together their texts by comparing two of the same stories written by
two different authors but maintaining the same plot line. Group B students
created their own version of the “The Little Red Hen,” and group C students
created their version of “The Three Little Pigs”. For the final showcase Yanitza in group C presented her story to the entire after school program. I am
very proud of all the students’ hard work, dedication and execution of this
year’s main objective.
Starfish
City Year P.S. 48 Alcoa 2009-2010 Team:
Ashanti Williams, April Greeson,
Chauvet Bishop, Dan Seamans,
Ellis Bullock, Kieran OConnor,
Krystine Dykes, Mai-Len Kennedy,
Mike Hannon, Phil Ellison,
and Vicki Cohen.
Starfish is a community service learning-based afterschool program. Starfish is designed on the belief that no
matter how old one is, they can still be involved in community change. Starfish is composed of different units
which include Peace and Love, Needs and Wants, and
The Environment. During each of these units, students
explore topics and conclude with a service project at the
end of each unit.
Teacher: Mr. Craig Tindal
Although our music
program was slowed
by the unfortunate
flooding of the Sound
Studio in November
that didn’t stop us.
We were able rescue
some of our equipment and still hold
our ASP music appreciation classes in
other parts of THE
POINT with the help
of City Year.
Music
Our youngsters in groups A & B put
on a Mariachi presentation celebrating the music of Mexico in connection
with the NEA Big Read Project’s Sun
Stone & Shadows. Our teen bands
continued on with evening rehearsals
in the “Live From the Edge Theatre”
and several performances including “Bronx Building Bronx” and the
Downtown Arts Festival.
Diaspora Music
Teacher: TreZure Taylor
Brazilian Music: Groups C & D studied the music, culture and portuguese
language as singers and samba dancers
during the 2009-2010 school year. First
studying Brazilian percussion and the
caxixi instrument, the 8-11 year olds
found similarities between
Brazilian culture and their own. This
year they learned to sing two classic
Antonio
Carlos Jobim songs as well as a basic
samba routine that they will perform
during the final presentation and Fish
Parade.
The After School Program Final Showcase 2010
Visual Arts
Teacher: Tyrone Brown-Osborne
Director: Carey Clark
Super Heroes and Snow Men
Group C & D
Students were asked to invent portraits
of themselves as superheroes. They
learned how to use a film, camera and
design a panel through deconstructing
and reassembling the images they took.
The same process was used with the
classical “snowman” image.
Mixed media artists at work
Teacher: Carolina Diaz
Director: Carey Clark
Visual Arts
Recycled Picadas... Group F was able to make art about saving the Earth
through the tradition of Mexican Picadas, paper cut outs used for celebrations. The students used vinyl material and recycled soda cans to create
images and text about recycling. Big ups to Erykah, Juan, Kadijah, Danny,
Tajanae, Jesus, Diamond and Christian.
Rocking the Boat Mural...
Fish Parade logo…
Erykah, Kadijah, Tajanae and Jesus
from group F sketched out ideas for
the Fish Parade using the theme for
this year’s parade - Get Connected
People, Parks, Progress.
Group F assisted in the ideas
for the THE POINT/ Rocking
the Boat collaboration for a 100
foot mural that will be placed
on the Garlic Factory façade
between Rocking The Boat’s new
location on Edgewater and THE
POINT’s Riverside Campus for
the Arts and The Environment.
Adam Green invited the students
to explore their indoor aquariums filled with Bronx River cohabitants --crabs, shrimp, snails
and plant life. Students also
sketched the wild life from the
tanks. They helped to prime the
panel of wood boards and are
using salvaged materials to create
colorful collages representing the
3 miles of estuary where fresh
water and salt water combine and
is now a safe environment for
the animals that breed and live
there - - not unlike The POINT
and Rocking the Boat providing a creative and safe environment for the students where we
live and work together. Thanks
to Juan, Erykah, Jesus, Tajanae
and the volunteers that helped to
make this project great one.
Cirque du Monde
This has been a very exciting year with Cirque du Monde at THE POINT.
Coach Program Coordinator, Deven facilitated the strong, creative and enthusiastic team of: Andy, Josh, Keith, Amy, Ellie, Victor and visiting coach
Sara. Students from the After-School Program, and Teen Program presented
Showcases in December and June highlighting their favorite activities in
Cirque, like shadowy silks, diabolo, sunny stilts & tumbling, wave-like juggling, a rock ‘n roll trampoline act and
some crazy clowning.
Cirque du Monde is one of the greatest sources
of pride for Cirque du Soleil. Set in motion
in 1995, this programme is now operating in
more than 80 communities throughout the
world in partnership with Jeunesse du Monde,
Oxfam International and many community
organizations recognized in their milieu for
the quality of their work with young people.
ICP @ THE POINT
ICP @ The Point Staff: Melanie Diaz, Alicia Clarke and Tiffany Williams
Jazmin Velez
Alex Hernandez
Kydanis Clase
ICP @ THE POINT instructors :
Jaime Schlesinger, Bami Adedoyin, Bayete Ross
Smith, Isabel Foley, G. Giraldo, Kae Newcomb
During the 2009-2010 school year, ICP at THE
POINT celebrated our 21st Vantage Point exhibition entitled, “Personal Vision”. The opening reception was a
success, seeing a large crowd of family and friends supporting our students. This was the first year we created
postcard size versions of our students’ photographs, which
was a crowd pleaser.
We are excited to announce 13 of our students are
graduating high school this year and attending college in
the fall, some colleges they plan to attend include, SUNY
Binghamton, CUNY John Jay, Quinnipiac University and
CUNY LaGuardia Community College, among others.
Along with our college bound students, a handful of our
students this summer with be participating in summer art
programs at organizations such as Pratt Institute.
During the school year, many of our students had
the opportunity to work with new camera equipment, allowing them to continue to develop their education in
photography. We were also fortunate to continue to have
guest photographers visit our classes and have the opportunity to work with our students.
Many of our pre-teen students come from Bronx
Charter School for the Arts. As a result, we decided to
have a photo exhibition at their school, highlighting the
relation shipICP @ THE POINT has with Bronx Charter School for the Arts as well as allowing our students
to show their teachers and schoolmates their artwork. It
was a success and something we hope to continue not only
at Bronx Charter School for the Arts but at other schools
where our ICP students also attend.
Teachers: Adam Liebowitz
Sharon De La Cruz
A.C.T.I.O.N.
(Activists Coming to Inform Our Neighborhood)
Happening Habit/ Environmental Stewardship
The North Brother Island project came to a close this year, but Happening Habitat and our environmental
stewardship work will continue! We visited the island in the fall to remove invasive species, created a new native wildflower garden at THE POINT that was featured on our tour during Wildflower Week, and began constructing our new rain water harvesting system with the Bronx River Alliance.
GO GREEN!
As always we are working on informing people about environmental justice issues and the benefits of going green.
This year we helped plan the first ever NYC Youth Summit
on Climate Justice held in April. We also made our own
stop-motion animation video which is available on our youtube page “thepointaction”. Throughout the year we held
workshops and tours for many groups like Bowling Green
University, Norwegian students from the United Methodist
Seminar Program, and STRIVE. We also presented at the
New School Race & the Environment Symposium, the first
Bronx Food Summit, Bronx Parks SpeakUp, South Bronx
Earth Fest, and the Highway to Health Youth Expo. And of
course, we led the presentations at our The POINT’s annual
Town Hall in March.