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Serving the New York City area since 1980, our educational initiatives deliver a broad range of programs to ever-growing audiences of children & adults.

Curriculum Arts Project (CAP) gives thousands of students insight into the social studies curriculum through interaction with the arts and artists in the classroom, at museums, and at Peter Norton Symphony Space.

For teachers, CAP offers an opportunity to explore the ways that the arts can make textbook studies come alive, staff development workshops with previews of CAP events, interaction with classroom artists, and training in the use of non-textbook approaches to the curriculum. Arts resource materials, including discussion guides and suggested lesson plans, are provided. Ultimately, CAP offers teachers non-traditional interactive ways to achieve the goals of the NYS Learning Standards in Social Studies, Language Arts, and the Performing and Visual Arts.

For students, CAP offers immediate contact with the arts and artists, connections between the arts and the culture(s) under study, hands-on involvement with authentic, traditional works of music, dance, drama and art, and opportunities to create original works of music, drama, and art.

Now, at the new CAP website, CAP offers further resources by presenting web-based lesson plans that expand upon the experiences of CAP in the classroom, at museums and at performances at Symphony Space. The CAP website encourages and guides teachers and students to explore the wealth of curriculum-specific arts-related resources available on the internet and in their own school libraries. Visit the CAP website to learn more about CAP and related resources.

Selected Shorts: All Write! introduces adult literacy students to the beauty and the power of the written word at a special Selected Shorts performance at Peter Norton Symphony Space. The students are then invited to submit their own work, a selection of which is read by the same actors at a second performance.

For more information about CAP, Staff Development, or Selected Shorts: All Write! please contact Madeline Cohen, Education Director at 212.864.1414 x221 or madeline.cohen@symphonyspace.org.