Both AMP Space and CAP House will be closed over Memorial Day Weekend, May 24th and May 25th. No playgroups or Open Plays at CAP, no Open Play, MusicWorks or Socialization Sundays at AMP.
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May 31st is the Music & Art & Dance Saturday Finale, our last FREE Mostly Monthly event before the summer closing of AMP Space on the weekends.
Here's the schedule of events:
11am: Creative Movement with MMDG
12:30-2pm: All Star Art Projects Emily Brooks, Eliza Factor and Jamila will lead three different art project stations.
2:30-3:30pm: Jesse Neuman's MusicWorks will send us off with their always excellent energy.
We’re sorry and sad to report that Extreme Kids & Crew’s CAP House was vandalized sometime over the weekend of April 19th and 20th. CAP House is our intimate, sensory play space located within Crispus Attucks park in Bed Stuy designed for children with special needs ages 6 months to 5 years of age.
While this is certainly sad news, we are happy that no one was hurt and this was not a malicious attack. It looks a mess, but it’s not beyond repair. The space is closed this week and weekend while we clean up and rebuild. If you are available and child-free on Sunday the 27th at 11am come help us put this lovely space back together. We want to make sure it is up and running as soon as possible for the many families that depend on it.
If you’d like to make a donation to help us remake CAP House, you can use our donation page https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/extremekidsandcrew and make a note that you’d like it to be used for CAP.
Thank you TerraCRG! Due to their generous sponsorship, every dollar raised through the May Soiree will go directly towards supporting our programs. Every $1000 raised allows one child free participation in our programming for 10 weeks.
If you’d like to see your company name here, please get in touch with Caitlin and talk about ways in which you can get involved.
Sorry for late breaking notice, but class has been cancelled for Saturday, May 3rd. No creative movement with Mark Morris Saturday the 3rd. Come back NEXT Saturday the 10th.
Let it be known:
Extreme Kids & Crew will honor individuals in the arts who have moved the general public’s perception of disability away from fear and loathing towards a more nuanced wonder at the
multiplicity of being and the diversity of experience.
At the organization’s spring gala, Rosanne Cash will present the Felix Award in Writing to Andrew Solomon, whose book Far From the Tree illuminates the experiences of parents
raising children with disabilities, provides valuable analytic tools for understanding complicated family dynamics, and demonstrates the transformative power of communities based on difference. Karen Pittman will present the Felix Award in Art to Jill Mullin, whose book Drawing Autism showcases an impressive array of work by professional and amateur artists on the autism spectrum, blasting through the misconception that people with autism have no imagination.
The leadership at Extreme Kids & Crew is comprised of parents who have experience both inside and outside the world of disability and are acutely aware of the general population’s
awkwardness, fear, pity, and sometimes outright derision regarding people with disabilities. While living with disability and caring for those with disabilities is no picnic, neither is it the gloomy tomb it is often made out to be. Indeed the challenges, pains, frustrations, and injustices associated with disability can lead to creativity, resilience, humor and novel ways of perceiving the world. Much of the disconnect between what disability looks like from the outside and what it feels like from the inside has do with misunderstanding and inexperience.
We at Extreme Kids & Crew have initiated the Felix Awards because we believe that the arts have an important role to play in breaking down some of this misunderstanding. A deeper knowledge of disability not only can make for better manners and civic relations, but also can help members of the general public better accept their own frailties, quirks, and mortality. Most of us will become disabled at some point in our lives. Most of us will also care for a disabled loved one. Understanding that disability need not be a punishment, banishment, end-of-everything-good, but that it is simply a part of life, is surely useful to our
collective mental health.
February 26th, 2014:
For parents caught up in the day to day struggle of raising a “mixed family”, one that includes both special needs and typically developing children. This is not a “how to” session but an open exploration of five very different panelists’ experiences. Moderated by Dr. Judy Grossman of the Ackerman Institute.