Serving the New York City area since 1980, our educational initiatives deliver a broad range of programs to ever-growing audiences of children & adults.
Camps for Kids
Learn more about Symphony Space's camps for kids, including Global Arts Camp and Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp. Where in the world would you like to go during the February school break? India? Africa? South America? You can experience these exciting places and others in Symphony Space’s Global Arts Camp. This new camp uses the arts as a window to the cultures of the world. Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp offers up-close interaction with favorite children’s book authors and illustrators, book discussions, and book-related field trips around the city.
Curriculum Arts Project (CAP)
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.
Selected Shorts: All Write!
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.
