Mayor Bill de Blasio has long been a proponent of providing free Pre-K and after school activities to all children in New York City. When the recently elected mayor gave his State of the City Address his focus on strengthening our cities educational structure was one of his main focuses. As one of the major cities in the world, New York is failing in education.
We completed our final workshop of the academic year last week at Chelsea LAB School. Ofri Cnaani led the workshops on the history of Chelsea as a integral component to her upcoming public art installation with More Art. Ofri engaged the students in a series of research-based sessions investigating the multiple transformations undertaken by Chelsea’s
This weekend we held our last saturday workshop of the season. Ten students from the LAB Middle school had the opportunity to discover Japanese arts and culture. In the morning, we visited the Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints exhibition at the Japan Society in Manhattan. Then, students took part of a workshop
This past Saturday 10 students from the New York City LAB School took part in an instrument-making workshop led by musicians Bashiri Johnson and Eleanor Dubinski. In the morning Bashiri demonstrated percussion technics and invited students and adults alike to follow him in a musical journey, discovering instruments and rhythms. Everyone got to play a
This past Saturday, eleven students from the Lab School in Chelsea spent the day at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Throughout the winter we’ve been learning the different elements of creating a film in our after-school program, and then testing them out by creating our own short films. Taking the class to
Students at the Lab School in Chelsea are learning to make movies. Beginning in November 2012, a dozen middle school students here have learned about the details of filmmaking, with a focus on sound effects, camera angles and editing. And now they’re ready to take a shot at making their own films. Their films are
