Kids Stories - The hopes, dreams and words of children - Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the South Chicago Arts Center.
KIDS STORIES uses hopes, dreams & words of children, ages 8-12, to visualize a future world - safe, sustainable & rewarding. It builds on the mission of the South Chicago Art Center to provide a safe place for children, a sense of aesthetics, self-esteem, curiosity & empowerment in the community. Using the shared language of theater, visual arts & media, we give voice to compelling messages children want to deliver to the world. A declaration of expectation & accountability, our video conveys the powerful advocacy of children's voices while inspiring KID STORIES' events in other cities. Funds raised underwrite these events & offer additional support to SCAC to continue free art instruction to the young people they serve.
Amina Dickerson
Amina Dickerson has a background as a theatre artist, playwright and singer as well as more than two decades of work as a senior administrator in museum and arts education. She worked with Living Stage Theatre at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, as well as led educational outreach for Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art where she designed their Africa Heritage Month in school program that served D.C. public schools in the late 1970s. She designed a wide array of family and children's programs through her senior posts in museums in WDC, Philadelphia and Chicago. In her role as leader of Kraft Foods' philanthropic programs, she pioneered the Art Discovery program that brought the resources of 13 of Chicago's major cultural institutions--including Chicago Shakespeare Repertory, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Children's Museum, Goodman Theatre, DuSable Museum of African American History and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in a collaborative model that provided multi-disciplinary residencies and programs to Chicago schools.
Dickerson began her arts training as a student of Workshops for Careers in the Arts ( now the duke Ellington School in WDC) and continued her studies in theatre arts at Emerson College in Boston. She continues her involvement with the arts as a board member with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Congo Square Theatre and the newly established Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) and as an arts advisor, patron and consultant.
Dickerson began her arts training as a student of Workshops for Careers in the Arts ( now the duke Ellington School in WDC) and continued her studies in theatre arts at Emerson College in Boston. She continues her involvement with the arts as a board member with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Congo Square Theatre and the newly established Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) and as an arts advisor, patron and consultant.
Linda Lombardo
Linda Lombardo has a background as a professional actor, playwright, director and singer. Linda's past credits include writer and director of a musical Beauty and the Beast, which toured schools and libraries on Long Island, NY for two years. At the same time, Linda also toured schools, parks and libraries with a NYC-based children's touring company as an actress performing in educational musical theater focused on women, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Daughters of Freedom and Looking Glass Alice.
While living in Canada for two years, Linda worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, performing radio drama as well as with the Manitoba Children's Theater, both main stage and touring with original theater programs for children, including Stories My Grandparents Told Me.
Co-founder of the Washington Park Theater in Albany, NY, Linda's grant writing bestowed a Hudson-Mohawk grant on the fledgling company for development of children's theater workshops. As past partner in Plaza Productions on Long Island, NY, Linda's primary focus was its children's theater for schools, libraries and the parks systems.
As a facilitator of creative workshops, Linda teaches Art From the Heart and Improvisation as a social context for developing self-esteem for teens.
While living in Canada for two years, Linda worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, performing radio drama as well as with the Manitoba Children's Theater, both main stage and touring with original theater programs for children, including Stories My Grandparents Told Me.
Co-founder of the Washington Park Theater in Albany, NY, Linda's grant writing bestowed a Hudson-Mohawk grant on the fledgling company for development of children's theater workshops. As past partner in Plaza Productions on Long Island, NY, Linda's primary focus was its children's theater for schools, libraries and the parks systems.
As a facilitator of creative workshops, Linda teaches Art From the Heart and Improvisation as a social context for developing self-esteem for teens.
