City Council Member Eric Dinowitz, chair of the City Council education committee, is set to join pre-kindergarten through first-grade students, teachers and arts advocates at a Bronx elementary school on Monday, March 30, to rally in support of arts education in New York City public schools, according to a media advisory distributed through readMedia Newswire.
The advisory says the rally will take place at 10:30 a.m. at P.S. 16 Wakefield, located at 4550 Carpenter Ave. in the Wakefield section of the Bronx. The event is billed as a celebration of the Support for Arts Instruction initiative, a citywide effort the organizers say is aimed at expanding access to arts instruction for public school students across the city.
According to the advisory, the rally is organized around the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable and is expected to draw representatives from arts organizations that work in city classrooms, including the Bronx Arts Ensemble and Dancing Classrooms, along with the NYC Public Schools Arts Office. The advisory lists Kim Olsen, Judith Insell, Eve Wolff and Paul Thompson among the scheduled participants.
The advisory frames the gathering as a way to highlight what organizers describe as the importance of arts education and the impact of the Support for Arts Instruction initiative on students in city public schools. The initiative is a $4.05 million citywide investment, under which 210 schools were each awarded $18,809 to bring music, theater, visual art, materials, field trips and arts-related staff development into public schools in every council district.
Further information about the event was published by readMedia at its newswire posting.
