Dear Friends,
It's been an action packed semester here at The CCC Project! As we wrap up this school year and plan for the next, I'm so excited to share what we've been up to as well as what's ahead.
Creative Work Share and Artist Talk with
Trina Michelle Robinson
On Saturday, April 1, 2023, members of The Creative Youth Collective and Whole Child Education got together for the very first time in Woodside, CA to meet each other, learn about each other's current creative projects, and listen to our featured artist Trina Michelle Robinson speak about her interdisciplinary art practice. Trina explores the relationship between memory and migration through film, print media, archival materials and text. Her work has been shown at galleries and film festivals throughout the country including including the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, New York’s Wassaic Project and is included in the Museum of the African Diaspora’s (MoAD) Emerging Artist Program 2022-2023. She told the story of exploring her ancestry with The Moth Mainstage on stages throughout the country including New York’s Lincoln Center and NPR’s Moth Radio Hour.
Creative Work Share and Artist Talk, April 2023, Woodside, CA
Members of the Creative Youth Collective and Whole Child Education check out some of the materials Trina brought back from Senegal and Cameroon.
Creative Youth Collective
Exhibition & Celebration
At the beginning of the Fall semester, we launched the Creative Youth Collective (CYC), an innovative, student-centered program, specially designed to inspire youth to cultivate their passions, realize their ideas, and share their creative work with the communities they care about most. I cannot wait to share the wildly imaginative projects each member of the collective is currently bringing to life. And next month, I'm happy to say, we'll have the opportunity to do just that!
On Sunday, May 21, 2023 from 2-4 pm, the Creative Youth Collective and Whole Child Education will celebrate the work we’ve created this year with an exhibition in Guild Hall at The Village Hub in Woodside. We’re inviting parents, family, and friends of the young artists and writers to join us in celebrating our creativity, curiosity, and community.
At this event, we will also honor our very first Creative Youth Collective Scholarship recipient, Anna Calia. Anna is an accomplished visual artist and photojournalist, who is on her way to college to continue studying fine art in the Fall. I started working with Anna when she was 10 years old; it's been an incredible privilege to mentor her as her creative interests have developed and deepened over the past 7 years.
We'd love to have you join us! Please click here if you'd like to be added to our guest list.
Summer and Fall Registration 2023-2024
Registration is now open to new creative youth who would like to join the Creative Youth Collective for summer programming as well as the 23-24 school year! Space is limited, so if you think this program might be the perfect fit for a creative young person in your life, click here to schedule a personal consultation. Registration forms and deposits are due on June 1st.
If you know someone who would appreciate the work we do, I would be grateful if you forwarded this link to them -- we love making new friends. As always, thank you so much for your interest in The CCC Project, and for your support of creative youth!
List of Recommended Specialists
Maya and I would like to thank all of our past and current clients for the incredible references you sent us for our List of Recommended Specialists. It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know each of the professionals we've included on the list, and we hope that you will have an opportunity to get to know them, too. We will be regularly updating it as we receive more recommendations.