WE HAD SUCH A GREAT YEAR WE DIDN’T POST MUCH! The winter took us to BAM film festival where we had 3 large groups of children and their caregivers enjoy awesome films! We applied for Corcoran Cares Grant in the winter and we got word in the summer that we will RECEIVE it in Read the full article…
Long gone are the stand-in-one-place-and-sing days. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus really wowed Foster Your Dream’s kids. So much so that the group-home that came for the first performance, inspired a second group to come listen! The young chorus and orchestra sung and played their hearts out and were theatrical, also. There was choreography. There were Read the full article…
BAM is one of our biggest supporters. We had small groups go to many performances of the following BAM-tastic events … The Toad Knew … a nonverbal rollicking event with acrobatics and water play and a LOT of stagecraft! The Crown Heights film … based on a true story that some of our kids could Read the full article…
Sometimes the theatre things we rustle up are too “out there” for children who haven’t been exposed to much theatre. So when we approached The Children’s Center we asked the recreation director, Timothy Dugger, to keep an eye on BAM’s website and let us know if his children wanted to participate in something. He Read the full article…
BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York presented The People Speak, gathering actors and musicians to bring to life Howard Zinn’s extraordinary history of ordinary people. With Staceyann Chin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Talib Kweli, Deva Mahal, Aasif Mandvi, Frances McDormand, Peter Sarsgaard Stew, David Strathairn and Marisa Tomei among the performers, FYD jumped at the chance Read the full article…
Bam’s production of A MAN OF GOOD HOPE by the South African Isango Ensemble invited FYD to experience the moving story of a child escaping war torn Somalia. Here is a little bit of what two sisters and three staff from ACS’s Children’s Center got to see: Many thanks to Timothy Dugger who drove the girls Read the full article…