Story Tapestries uses the arts as a tool to support learning and community development. Explore the Key Initiatives we offer to accomplish this. In addition, we offer Named Initiatives that focus on a particular set of challenges that face our community.
You can learn more about these programs, their impact, and Story Tapestries’ strategies in our latest Annual Report.
Performances & Workshops
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In 2022, Story Tapestries presented over 350 free family performances and 15 community outreach workshops. These events engaged over 350,000 community members, building cultural capital and sharing stories and voices of those who have historically gone unheard.
Artist-in-Residencies
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Story Tapestries uses the tools of the arts, arts integration and Universal Design for Learning methodology to support learning:
arts
literacy
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)
Parent & Community Engagement
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Parents and mentors learn skills that support what teachers are doing in the classroom daily, becoming a unified team with common objectives. Family Nights include a professional performance and interactive workshop. In 2022, we also introduced Parent Workshops as part of our workforce development initiatives, supporting parents’ mental health and wellness and providing. practical tools to better support themselves and their child(ren).
Professional Development
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1-hour to multi-day events designed to share tools, techniques and methods that educators, administrators, community leaders and teaching artists can immediately implement to integrate the arts, literacy, STEM, character education, and social emotional learning into daily lessons.
Art Kits including the supplies and materials needed to follow activity sheets developed by Story Tapestries’ teaching artists and curricula development specialists. Activities are designed with activities that can be done individually, or as a whole family. Each kit is custom designed to support a particular learning objective, such as literacy, STEM, and/or mindfulness. The kits became a necessity during the pandemic when teachers realized that their students did not have the most basic instruments to support learning at home, such as pens, pencils and paper. Enthusiasm for the kits has pushed Story Tapestries to continue producing and distributing them. Corporate sponsors and individual donors help make that possible, both with cash and in-kind contributions.
Learn more about how you can support these Key Initiatives as well as Named Initiatives through our Sponsorship Program, or make a general Donation to bring free programs and services to the community members who need them most.
