Program Description
CREATE (Creative Residencies for Emerging Artists Teaching Empowerment) CREATE is a brand-new residency internship program that gives artists, dancers, actors, filmmakers, and others an opportunity to apply creative skills through public service. 

CREATE members may join a Curriculum Team and teach at a local afterschool program.  Or, CREATE members can join a Documentary Team and use their skills to capture the work Cal Corps student leaders are doing with amazing community partners, some local and many from around the country (including in New Orleans). 

Curriculum Teams:  Residents of a Curriculum Team work in a common discipline like dance/movement, theater/performance, spoken word, visual arts, creative science, or culinary arts.  Together team members design a month-long curriculum that introduces youth to their discipline through a creative youth-led project that explores a cultural aspect of identity or family history.  The residency culminates in a youth-created project such as a performance piece, video, or work of art.  The CREATE Team will lead their curriculum in a series of workshops at a local afterschool program.  Upon completion of their curriculum at one afterschool site, the curriculum team will relocate to a new site where they will begin a new residency.  In this way CREATE curriculum teams will provide arts education and creative means for identity explorationi to hundreds of youth at Cal Corps partner schools and youth centers throughout the East Bay.

Documentary Teams:  Residents of a Documentary Team also work in a common discipline of either photography, journalism or story-telling, or documentary filmmaking.  Teams work together on a collaborative project that will capture the stories and experiences of Cal Corps students and community partners.  For example, a current student artist is creating a short film profiling local schools and afterschool programs and the Cal students who serve them.  Through the personal stories of local students, teachers, and youth, he is exploring ways in which educational inequity continues to divide our communities. 

Requirements
All CREATE residents must attend a mandatory orientation and two 1 ½ hour trainings with all CREATE residents (across disciplines).  Residnets who receive units must work at least 3 hours a week for one unit (45 hours) and 6 hours a week for two units.  Residents who receive an AmeriCorps education scholarship must commite to a year-long residency at 6-8 hours a week. 

How to Get Involved
Applications are currently being accepted.  Apply now!

For CREATE Community Partners: 
If you work with an organization or school that is interested in having a CREATE artist or artist team work with you, please fill out an online application.  CREATE artists might teach arts workshops, create an original artistic work, or collaborate with artists on existing arts projects.  Residencies must be arts-based and not administrative.

Important Dates

• Student Application Deadline: Friday, January 22, 2010 (for spring semester)
• Interviews:  TBA
• Offers sent first week of February

• Residencies begin in late Sept for fall and Jan for spring; year-long residencies are encouraged
  
  Contact Information
  Contact Carrie Donovan at (510) 642-5429 or carriedonovan@berkeley.edu