The Coffee House Arts project engages in artistic “conversations” between poetry, music, visual art and/or dance, as well as between as classes, generations, and schools. Calling on techniques of jazz improvisation high school students create multi genre fusion works, as well as individual pieces. Work is shared in weekly “coffee houses” as well as an end-of-year culminating event at a professional venue—for the past seven years the Nuyorican Poets’ Café. READ MORE…
All donations tax deductible under the sponsorship umbrella of New York Foundation for the Arts
A teenager from Bangladesh, newly at home in the English language, rehearses his poem about urban America with a renowned, downtown New York jazz trumpeter. A native New York teen responds to a fellow student’s poem with interpretive dance. Dedicated teens, some about to experience a professional coffee house venue for the first time, haul instruments downtown in the rain for an event at the famed Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe. These are just a few snapshots from the eight-year history of Coffee House Arts Call and Response Project, known to participants simply as—“Coffee House.” READ MORE…
The mission of Coffee House Arts Call and Response Project is to foster critical thinking, positive engagement in community, deep listening skills and capacity to make creative leaps. READ MORE…
The Coffee House Arts project gratefully accepts (tax deductible) donations to help us expand and deepen our work, as well as to stay afloat at our present size. Our goals include extending our “Call and Response” activities to more young people, expanding our work with teaching artists, and continuing to develop our end-of-year “Celebration of the Arts.” READ MORE…