Boch Center Education Department

📅 SAVE THE DATE: Next Wednesday, August 13 at the Shubert Theatre! Join us for the annual Leadership Program Final Showcase: A PLACE TO DREAM.

This summer's incredible teen leaders will share a special performance advocating for the protection, support, and respect of all immigrants. This showcase aims to dismantle xenophobia and harmful stereotypes in order to honor our history of immigration and uplift our collective humanity. This is a ✨FREE✨ community event.

Register here—> https://bit.ly/3U9HsPl

Jasery's Spoken Word Poetry Jasey performs an original spoken work poetry piece from our 2019 City Spotlights Teen Leadership Council's final showcase!More info - https://www.bochcenter...

Did you miss our Final Showcase performance for "One Spark Starts a Fire"? You're in luck - watch it all now on YouTube. Link here: https://bit.ly/2QnlUhs

2020 City Spotlights Leadership Program Virtual Showcase "On Spark Starts A Fire" Written, Composed & Choreographed by Teen Leaders More Info - https://www.bochcenter.org/cslp

THANK YOU to everyone who attended our Virtual Final Showcase last Wednesday, and who has supported us this summer during our first ever completely virtual City Spotlights Leadership Program.

For those who were unable to log in last week, we will be sharing the video of the virtual performance and Zoom Post-Show discussion. Stay tuned!

Today we welcome back former Boch Center Education team member, Kelly Fey Bolender, to speak with us about her experiences making impact and change at the national level as the Arts Education Program Manager at Americans for the Arts.

Don't forget to register for this Wednesday's Final Showcase! This summer's 15 Teen Leaders will premier their original show "One Spark Starts a Fire: Advocating From Our Hearts." For the first time in a virtual settings, Teen Leaders will explore and share their experiences with advocating for social justice for all, emphasizing in the importance of intersectionality, how real actions lead to progress, and amplifying the voices of those who must be heard and seen. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!

The event is free and open to the public online via Zoom. To register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cslfinalshowcase2020

SAVE THE DATE! Our first ever VIRTUAL showcase will be on Wednesday, August 12. FREE and open to the public! To attend, please RSVP and we will send the Zoom link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cslfinalshowcase2020

Join us today at 1:30pm for our first Instagram Live Q&A session! Follow us on Instagram (at) CitySpotlightsBoston and be a part of the conversation! We'll be discussing this year's theme "One Spark Starts a Fire" and what it means to advocate today while social distancing.

The Teens welcomed Boch Center's own Brian Gale (VP, Managing Director of Booking and Marketing) to speak to us today. Our main lesson? "Never stop learning!"

Today's the day! Our first ever virtual worskhop at 1:30pm, and it's not too late to register!!

This workshop is open to other teens (ages 15 - 19) who are interested in exploring our theme, "One Spark starts a Fire: Advocating from our Hearts". We will be talking about advocating and what it means today in the middle of COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, and how we can be involved, express ourselves, and still take care of ourselves. We will be sharing our conversations around advocacy, our own performance pieces inspired by this topic, and hearing your experiences and stories.

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City Spotlights Leadership Program Workshop - One Spark starts a Fire: Advocating from our Hearts Welcome to City Spotlights! Thank you for joining us for our first ever virtual workshop. Each summer the City Spotlights' Teen Leaders head out around Boston and facilitate workshops around social justice topic that are important to us. This year we are working hard in a virtual version of the prog...

ATTENTION! Teens 15-19 years old, join us tomorrow for our first ever virtual workshop! To register, follow our Instagram account (at)CitySpotlightsBoston. See you there!