Feb 15 | Pictures Workshop for Teenagers

JCC Chicago’s Growing Hope initiative is searching for youth, ages 12 – 18 with an curiosity in pictures and artistic expression to take part in a six-week program that makes use of pictures as a way of self-expression, inclusion, and hope. No prior expertise with pictures is required.

The program, Picturing Hope, is a collaborative venture for youth between JCC Chicago and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.Participants will meet for six consecutive Sundays (particular dates beneath), the place they may take part in pictures workshops, team-building actions, and community-building actions.The program will happen at numerous museum and cultural areas throughout town giving members entry to a few of the metropolis’s nice arts areas.

This program is generously funded by the VIVO Foundation, and there’s no price to members. All supplies, admissions to museums and cultural areas, transportation and swag have been lined by this youth empowerment grant.

The program will happen from 1:30 – 3:00 on the next Sunday afternoons:

Sunday, February 15 – The Field Museum*

Sunday, February 22 – Bernard Weinger JCC, Northbrook, IL

Sunday, March 1 – YMCA Metropolitan Chicago Crown Center

Sunday, March 8 – The Chicago Art Institute*

Sunday, March 15 – The Chicago History Museum*

Sunday, March 22 – WNDR Museum

*Locations are topic to alter with advance discover given.

Participants will probably be curating photographic pictures that symbolize the thought of hope, and their chosen images will probably be featured in a particular gallery present, to be held Sunday, May 3^rd.Cohort images may also be featured prominently on each the JCC Chicago and YMCA web sites.

Please use the next hyperlink to register:

The deadline for registration is Wednesday, February 11 at 5pm

For extra data please e mail venture director Kevin Pease at kpease@jccchicago.org