The Frances Davis/Harlem Stage Arts Education Program
The Frances Davis/Harlem Stage Arts Education Program is based on the idea that arts education plays a key role in developing a young person’s creativity, self-image and appreciation of diverse cultures. Throughout Harlem Stage’s 40-year history, we have served over 400,000 public schoolchildren. We target school age children and young adults who lack easy access to live performances and who attend schools that lack sufficient funding for arts programs. The Education Program seeks to augment cultural literacy, foster respect for ethnic and cultural diversity, cultivate young people to be future audiences, and engage families in the learning experience.
Harlem Stage hosts performing arts workshops at partner schools, led by Harlem Stage artists and Teaching Artists, and invites students to witness the transformative works performed at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse 100% free of charge.
The Frances Davis/Harlem Stage Arts Education Program’s curriculum is anchored by its framework of STRIVE 4 JOY.
Speak out against racism and anti-blackness
Test the limits of our creative comfort-zones
Respect ourselves and others
Inspire self-confidence
Visualize our perfect futures
Exit toxic relationships
The Harlem Stage Framework help the Harlem Stage artists and Teaching Artists who lead the school-based workshops create student-centered environments that affirm their racial and cultural identifies, develop students’ confidence in independent and collaborative exploration and empower the students to be current and future agents of social change.
