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“South St. Louis city is at the crossroads in St. Louis where new immigrants and African American youth live and interact. Our community has the opportunity to help these youth, faced with culture shock, learn to celebrate their differences and build upon their similarities. The arts provide a wonderful means to do this particularly with the component of Global Education.” - Cecilia Nadal Global Education Through the Arts is a community arts project that promotes intercultural competence among economically challenged African American and new immigrant youth living in South St. Louis city. The 16-week after-school program welcomes ethnically diverse youth to learn dance, poetry, drama and cultural diversity training as a way to cultivate social skills, team building, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution. Participants who successfully complete the program will have the opportunity to be involved with one of Gitana’s professional mainstage productions. In 2008, the Monsanto Fund awarded a $15,000 grant to Gitana Productions to fund the pilot session of the youth program. Successful students from this first session were selected to participate on stage with professional actors in “Complacency of Silence: Darfur,” an original play produced by Gitana in 2008. There is no fee for students to participate and transportation support is available for those in need. All of the art instructors are top professional artists in St. Louis. For more information or to register for an upcoming session, call 314-721-6556. Financial assistance for Global Education Through the Arts has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. With support from the Regional Arts Commission, Arts and Education Council and The St. Louis Philanthropic Organization.
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