Year: 2018
Dance Blog: SpecialFX
The first week of our Dance Apprenticeship was a success! Apprentices started exploring the Future Worlds theme, and getting themselves acquainted with some new dance vocabulary. Our youth are excited to build, learn, and create choreography over the next few weeks. This week we had a surprise special guest, Quentin “SpecialFX” Robinson, stop by and…
Music Blog: Clout
Consistency? Clout? Attention? Reputation? These phrases are some of the things the students have been speaking of as we begin the Fall session. We’ve been working on are theme for the year which is Addiction. We all asked questions about what causes addiction or what begins the processes of being of doing things to be…
Visuals Blog: Crew Takes a Mural Tour
On Thursday, AS220’s Visuals Crew walked through downtown Providence to view the different murals around the city. Each mural had a different style and were done by various artists such as Shepard Fairey, who went to RISD and is most known for his “Obey” brand. His mural on the back of AS220 displays the industrialization…
Live Arts Blog: A Poem by Jayden Cabral
This week we analyzed poetry and had philosophical conversations about sexuality and body positivity. We read the poem Twerk by Danez Smith and Fatima Asghar ‘s When Tip Drill Comes on at the Frat Party Or, When Refusing to Twerk Is A Radical Form of Self Love. Below is a poem, written by Jayden…
Digital Media Blog: Exploration / Pre-Production
This week heralded the start of an amazing session for Film & Editing class! We started delving into the topic of addiction with some deep discussion / reflection along with watching a portion of the documentary “13th”. We also started work planning and drafting storyboards for addiction-themed Public Service Announcements. Keep an eye out for some awesome…
Fall Classes!!
Classes run Sept. 10 – Dec. 7. Drop in any week day 3-7pm to get started.
AS220 Youth at Foo Fest 2018
AS220 Youth’s Zukrewe rocked the main outdoor stage, and the street, at AS220 Foo Fest on Saturday, August 18th! After a few hours of wild weather – wind, rain, thunder, and lightning – plus clean-up and drying the stage and equipment, power was restored outside and Zukrewe ushered in the second half of the festival….
FUTUREWORLDS 4.0: THE GODDESS, THE CAT, AND THE TRAP HOUSE
On Saturday, June 9th at PVD Fest, at 9 PM, AS220 Youth presented FUTUREWORLDS 4.0: THE GODDESS, THE CAT, AND THE TRAP HOUSE – a multidimensional performance telling the stories of 3 intertwining creatures developed by the artists of AS220 Youth. As the story goes, each has played an integral role in destroying what human beings have created: systems…