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- YAEP Program Director, Toyin Ajayi-Frankel, taught a textile residency at Samuel Powel Elementary School in West Philadelphia. The residency, entitled Adinkra Textile Arts, is part of Powel's curriculum in 2005-06: "Africa is Not a Country." Students are creating original symbols based on the Adinkran symbol system and transferring them to textiles, as well as learning dyeing techniques."
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- Two of a Kind performs at North Philadelphia Head Start Center as part of PNC's Grow up Great program.
YAEP received a $10,000 grant from PNC Bank to develop programs for children ages 3-5 at local Head Start Centers. This initiative, funded by PNC's Grow Up Great Program, is part of PNC's ongoing commitment to early childhood education. YAEP presented 12 programs at 4 local Head Start Centers this fall and hopes to expand the program to include residencies in 2005.
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- Program Director Toyin Ajayi-Frankel and teaching artist Elena Drozdova help students at Adaire Elementary celebrate the installation of a permanent stained glass window, the result of a residency.
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- YAEP has received a "Best Practices" award from Young Audiences, Inc. in NY for developing a model that reduces operational costs by utilizing professional business contacts of board members. YAEP will make a presentation at the national conference in late November.
- YAEP's Program Director, Toyin Ajayi-Frankel, worked closely with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to develop curriculum materials used in conjunction with the current exhibit, African Art African Voices. For more information, visit http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/africanart/.
- Young Audiences of Eastern PA welcomes Target stores as a new funder. Special thanks goes to the team leaders at the South Philadelphia Store on Mifflin St..
- Stained glass residency artist Elena Drozdova, works with 8th graders at Meredith School in Queen Village.
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- Students design individual pieces of stained glass which will be assembled, glazed and installed as a permanent window at Meredith. The theme is "the power of poetry".
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