All Programs starts:
Monday, September 28, 2015
Registration ongoing.
Teen Program Family Orientation: September 24th, 6-8PM
Teen Programming at THE POINT CDC promotes active healing and is mission-driven, transformative, asset-based, leadership bound, and safe and caring. Young adults from 13-24 years old can register for one or multiple free workshops throughout the year leading towards college and professional careers in the arts, activism, education and more.
For more info on THE POINT’s Teen Programs and how to sign up to be a part of the fun, email Danny R. Peralta at dannythepoint@gmail.com or call (718) 542-4139.
40 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, New York 10474
Academic Support
College Confidant/College Prep
The purpose of this workshop series is to prepare high school students for not only college courses, but for college life itself. Students will be challenged to take their writing skills to the next level while establishing a deep connection to the power of their own voice.
Time TBA
Instructor: TBA
Teen Arts
Music
Ensemble and Production
The Point Academy of Digital Media and Production offers fundamentals of music reading, melodica and electronic music ensemble, and music production or instrument making.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays
7:00 – 9:00pm
FREE
Contact: Yamil Lora, 718-542-4139, X.131
Register here.
Black & White Photography
A collaborative program with the International Center of Photography, ICP at THE POINT teaches the fundamentals of black-and-white photography. Students have access to THE POINT’s onsite black-and-white darkroom and Vantage Point Gallery. Registration ongoing. 10-week course, four times a year. FREE.
Pre-Teen, Mondays or Tuesdays 4:00-7:00PM
Teen, Wednesdays or Thursdays 4:00-7:00PM
Open Lab, Fridays 3:00-6:00PM & Saturdays 1:00-4:00PM
Contact: Alicia Clarke or Tiffany Williams 718-542-4149
Email: aclarke@thepoint.org or twilliams@thepoint.org
For more info click here.
Social Circus
Social Circus workshops in collaboration with Cirque du Soleil offer young people from 13 years and up an opportunity to learn a variety of circus disciplines including aerial, juggling, acrobatics, clowning and more, while building valuable life skills! Teens have the chance to perform throughout the city and even become coaches-in-training. FREE.
Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30 – 8:30pm.
Instructors: TBA
Contact: 718-542-4139 X.152
For more info click here.
Register here.
Abada Capoeira
Capoeira is a unique Afro-Brazilian art form which is an exciting combination of music, martial arts and acrobatics. Most students that take Capoeira, learn much more than the fundamentals of life by setting and achievent goals. Wednesday 7-8:30pm
FREE
Contact: David Handler, 718-542-4139
Register here.
Culinary Arts & Design
Blank Plate, the creative culinary program that’s changing a neighborhood, one plate at a time.
Date and time TBA.
Contact: Alejandra Delfin and Kelston Bascom, 718-542-4139 X.155
Visual Arts
Painting, drawing, and mural arts. The overall theme of this year’s workshops is climate change, however these salon style meetings of artists of all ages ( 13 and over ) support individual vision and professional development, in an atmosphere where older seasoned artists share their experiences with the younger. We will kick off the season with silk painting. Artists participate in ongoing mural projects, exhibitions at THE POINT and beyond.
Wednesdays 5-8pm FREE.
At THE POINT’s Riverside Campus for Arts and The Environment
1399 Lafayette Avenue, Bronx NY
Contact: Carey Clark, 718-542-4139 X.150
Register here.
Dance
Dance classes specializing in tap, modern, jazz, and hip-hop. Everything done by FORZA (Italian for strength!) With Forza Malizia Dance Compagny.
Tuesdays 7-9PM FREE
Contact: mariamalizia, at mariamalizia89@gmail.com
THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE
Tech-enterpreneurship program and video game academy teaching basic coding skills, 3d design/printing, digital media basics and business fundamentals.
7-8:30PM
FREE
Conatct: Jerelyn Rodriguez or Joe Carrano, info@theknowledgehouse.org
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! This exciting program for young teens offers cut-edge theater productions by partnering with professional theater actors! We meet Wednesday evenings from 7-10 for scene study and production rehearsals. Our plays are shown to the community and at schools in the Tri-State area. Some of our past students’ recent television and film work include: Ice Age: Continental Drift, Happy Feet. Monster House, City of Ember, Wonderland, Factory Girl, Remember The Titans, Sky High, Shark Bait, Gilmore Girls, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Bones. NCIS, Pair of Kings, Jane By Design, Modern Family, Sonny With a Chance, Chuck, Suite Life On Deck, CSI, Vegas, Entourage, The Good Wife, ATL, The Bernie Mac Show, Khloe and Lamar and Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Open to all teens 10 – 17.
Saturdays 12:30-2:30PM
AUDITION REQUIRED AND ONGOING.
Contact Luis Cardenas or Sarah “Rosie” Rosenberg
At 718-542-4139 X.175 or info@openhydrant.org
Teen Advocacy
A.C.T.I.O.N. (Activists Coming To Inform Our Neighborhood)
A.C.T.I.O.N. engages 20 stipended youth activists three times per week who work to identify social and environmental justice issues facing the Hunts Point community. Participants create and manage campaigns with the goals of developing ongoing youth-led solutions.
From September through June, and during the summer.
Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 4:30- 7:00pm
Plase fill out the applications by Friday, October 3, 2014.
Contact: Rebecca Rosado, 718-542-4139 X.128
For more info click here.
Apply here.
To print an application click here
W.O.M.E.N. (Where Our Minds Empower Needs)
W.O.M.E.N. young women’s leadership program combines sex education with the Arts, bridging the gap between how information is learned and retained. Workshops include healing circles, LGBTQ sex education workshops, creative writing classes and more! Women identified youth of all cultural backgrounds who wish to empower themselves and their community are encouraged to join. Dinner and train pass provided.
Fridays 5:30pm to 7pm
FREE
Contact: Teresa Rivera, 718-542-4139.
Register here.
MEN’s Group
Men’s group is a young men’s empowerment group that addresses the health and social issues facing male-identified youth in the South Bronx. M.I.S.T.E.R. provides a safe space for youth to discuss and combat the social pressures brought about by the media, society, and their peers by creating campaigns informing and empowering the whole community. Dinner and train pass provided. Ages 13-24yrs old.
Fridays 5:30 -7pm.
FREE
Contact: Danny Peralta, 718-542-4139 X.138.or dannythepoint@gmail.com
Register here.
Teen Technology
Video Game Design and Tech-Entrepreneurship
Tech-entrepreneurship program and video game academy teaching basic coding skills, 3d design/printing, digital media basics and business fundamentals.
Wednesdays 7-8:30pm
Contact: Jerelyn Rodriguez or Joe Carrano
email: info@theknowledgehouse.org
Teen Internships
As an important step to preparing job readiness and improving access to higher education, THE POINT provides internship opportunities for teens. Students can intern in all areas of THE POINT’s programs including:
A.C.T.I.O.N. Summer Internship
THE POINT’s teen community leadership group A.C.T.I.O.N. (Activists Coming to Inform Our Neighborhood) engages ten stipend teen activists throughout the summer months to continue the group’s social and environmental justice campaigns. A.C.T.I.O.N. also works to connect teens with summer internship opportunities outside THE POINT!
Contact: Rebecca Rosado 718-542-4139
Email: rrosado@thepoint.org
Theatre Apprenticeship
Interns work in THE POINT’s Live From the Edge Theatre as stagehands and gain technical theatre experience including sound and lighting skills.
Contact: Danny Peralta 718-542-4139, X138
Summer Youth Leadership
Teens have the opportunity to learn leadership, teamwork, mentoring and first aid skills and help staff THE POINT’s Summer Youth Programs as junior counselors and activity specialists through this program. Summer Youth Leaders are comprised of teens from the community and the Department of Youth and Community Development’s Summer Youth Employment Program.
Contact: Danny R. Peralta 718-542-4139, X.138
Email: dannythepoint@gmail.com
