Dear Friends,
The CCC Project is creating a library of expanded storytelling authored by youth. Working with text, photographs, moving images and sound to express the unique vision of each member of the Creative Youth Collective, we use storytelling as a form of youth-centered activism. In sharing our stories, we dream, imagine, and create new futures.
On Sunday, May 21st, the Creative Youth Collective and Whole Child Education communities gathered to celebrate the stories we’ve woven this year at The Village Hub in Woodside, Ca. Parents, family, and friends of the young artists and writers joined us in celebrating the release of five new books, two blogs, a film, and an exhibition of photographs.
In addition to the hard and soft cover books, each member of the Creative Youth Collective designed a poster for their story with a QR code that linked to their ebook, film, or blog. All of the Creative Youth Collective stories are featured in the library on our website, where you can flip through the books, check out the blogs, and watch the film. We are so proud of our young artists and writers, and the ideas they've realized over the course of the last academic year!
Creative Youth Collective Scholarship
Exhibition Open House
July 2, 2023
11 - 1 pm | The Village Hub
Woodside, CA
In 2022, The CCC Project established the Creative Youth Collective Scholarship: a full semester, merit-based award that celebrates young artists and writers who demonstrate exceptional talent and commitment to their creative visions. Our 2023 CYC Scholarship recipient Anna Calia's solo exhibition,Namibia, is on view at The Village Hub in Woodside, CA through July 2, 2023.
Photographs by Anna Calia, 16x20 archival C-Prints
During the summer of 2022, Anna was part of a photography and conservation student travel program in Namibia. She spent a month camping in the bush, photographing, and learning about the incredible wildlife. This exhibition celebrates her commitment to her work as a photographer, as well as her deep respect for animals, nature, and the environment.
I’ve had the honor of mentoring Anna and helping her cultivate her passion for photography and writing since she was ten years old. It’s been an absolute pleasure to watch her continuously grow as an artist throughout the last seven years. In autumn, Anna will be heading to Washington DC to study photojournalism at Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University where she will continue to follow her passion for photography and environmental conservation.
Please join us at The Hub's exhibition Open House on July 2nd from 11 am - 1 pm to see Anna's exhibition in person, and meet the artist herself! All work is available for purchase. 16 x 20 inch framed prints are $150 each. If you're unable to join us in person, and you can see the full exhibition featured on our website, as well.
Creative Youth Collective 2023-24 Registration
The CCC Project believes that creativity, curiosity, and community form the cornerstones of an engaged life. We are a highly personalized, radically collaborative arts and humanities education platform for creative youth. With a foundation in mentorship and interdisciplinary arts education, we provide the framework to help young artists and writers discover and dive deeper into their interests, develop the skills needed to realize long term idea-driven projects, and most importantly, share their creative work with the communities that matter to them most.
We have very limited space left for the upcoming academic year. If you think this program might be the perfect fit for a creative young person in your life, please click here to schedule a free personal consultation.
Warmly,
Kathryn
All We Do
A poem by Ben Okri
Gazing at the shape of a hill,
The grey horizon,
A woman reading a book,
A landscape shaped by history.
All we do is story.
Our public acts are dreams.
Our private acts are dramas.
Submerged rivers are our thoughts,
Misted streams our hopes.
Like the spider we turn
All things into ourselves.
We bend the light
Of time into fables.
Beyond our mind, reality moves.
Unknowable like the darkness
Before creation.
We carve from the unknown
A world.
Without story
Our identities
Starve.
We live in and out
Of time
Simultaneously.
Living belongs to story.
Being belongs to mystery.
Beyond form
Our souls
Breathe.
We yield time
Our story-making sense.
In this portion of eternity,
Awake and in dreams,
We live myths.
It's what makes us immense.