What’s Your Story?

What are your defining moments? Who has tried to define you? How do you preserve worth? These were the ideas being communicated at the fifth and final installment of the Teaching Artists Guild’s (TAG) program Youth Right Now = Truth Right Now, a series of BIPOC Youth Led Professional Development Workshops that give insight into what helps build creative, nurturing and thriving environments for young artists.

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Making Impact

What does leadership look like? Who is deemed a leader? How do leaders use their platforms? These thoughts were percolating at the fourth installment of the Teaching Artists Guild’s (TAG) program Youth Right Now = Truth Right Now, a series of BIPOC Youth Led Professional Development Workshops that give insight into what helps build creative, nurturing and thriving environments for young artists.

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Understanding Past, Present and Future

What is Afrofuturism? What impact does it have on arts practitioners? These were the essential questions discussed at the second installment of the Teaching Artists Guild’s (TAG) program Youth Right Now = Truth Right Now, a series of BIPOC Youth Led Professional Development Workshops that give insight into what helps build creative, nurturing and thriving environments for young artists.

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The Power of Adultism

The Teaching Artists Guild (TAG), a member driven organization that supports teaching artists, has constructed a new youth-led program entitled, Youth Right Now = Truth Right Now. The first session focused on Adultism where youth artists unpack the effects of adultist behaviors on their development while inviting participants to reimagine and adopt new ways of engaging with youth. This particular session was conducted by Victor Sawyer & Brittney Boyd Bullock with their youth leads, Andrea Dixon and Maya Ashe.

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