Pledge for funds to start youth program Play Seminarium – “Learning through Movement and Animation”

Let’s keep our youth from the street providing them with a stage.

Problem: Los Angeles School Police Department reports: Recent research data
has identified that the primary age for recruitment into street gangs is 11-15
years. Students who are at high risk and vulnerable to join a youth gang exist
in many school environments. They will continue to be attracted to possible
gang involvement if educators, parents, public safety officials, and other
community members are not aware of causation factors leading to youth gang
membership and will not provide them with more attractive alternative.

Youth gang problems are not uniquely a school problem. Youth gangs are a
community problem, and will continue to be a national challenge.

Solution: “Dance into Unity” is a non-profit corporation dedicated to opening the
door of opportunity for youngsters through Dance and Art programs. We are
working with educators to develop dance and arts programs, which would help
youngsters to get in touch with their creativity, developing focus, sense of self
worth and motivation to excel in everything they do.

Let’s do it: Play Seminarium – “Learning through Movement and Animation” –
a program for youngsters, a part of “Dance into Unity” from “Street to Stage”
initiative, was developed by master of Pantomime Ognian Hristov and
artist of
animation Masha Vasilkovsky.

See http://danceintounity.org/blk_edu/masha.html

We are planning the classes to take place at different cultural Exposition Park
locations: Air and Space Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Center.