Global Education Center
Programs
Budget
$45,000.00
Description
Passport to Prevention is an extension of our Roots, Rhythm and Rhyme program for youth that is designed in partnership with Davidson County Juvenile Court. This program takes the arts of the world to youth in the detention center as well as to court-involved youth in area schools and community programs. It also includes programming for families of court-involved youth, encompassing ages from preschool through senior citizens with special programming for custodial grandmothers. This program is in its 8th year and is considered to be one of our most successful programs.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Formerly incarcerated people & incarcerated people
Program Areas Served
Davidson County
$45,000.00
Description
Passport to Prevention is an extension of our Roots, Rhythm and Rhyme program for youth that is designed in partnership with Davidson County Juvenile Court. This program takes the arts of the world to youth in the detention center as well as to court-involved youth in area schools and community programs. It also includes programming for families of court-involved youth, encompassing ages from preschool through senior citizens with special programming for custodial grandmothers. This program is in its 8th year and is considered to be one of our most successful programs.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Formerly incarcerated people & incarcerated people
Program Areas Served
Davidson County
Budget
$75,000.00
Description
A community outreach program for youth incorporating a Summer Multicultural Arts Camp in which students study drum, dance, crafts. games, sports and traditions from approximately 30 cultures and Roots, Rhythm and Rhyme After School and Saturday Arts Program, both on-site at the Global Education Center and off-site at various schools and community organizations, that offers drum and dance from around the world. Also included in our youth programming are a studio recording project that incorporates percussion, poetry and percussive dance, and Passport to Fitness, a program incorporating music and movement, targeting the problems of inactivity and obesity in today's youth through a partnership with Meharry's Department of Pediatrics. Passport to Prevention is a restorative arts program, now in its fifth year, serving incarcerated serving incarcerated youth, youth in diversion, and families of court-involved youth.
Beneficiaries
Families
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Many of our programs for youth are in their 27th year and remain some of our most cherished and sought-after programs. Designed to serve youth and families who are typically under served by mainstream arts program, our youth programs expose children and youth to the diversity of the world in a way that is welcoming, inclusive and nonthreatening. Students typically remain in the programs until they "age out," with many of them remaining involved throughout high school, college and beyond as volunteers and teachers. We are serving three and four generations of some families, letting us know that our programs are valued and culturally relevant.
Program Areas Served
While our youth programming is based in Davidson County, our students come from surrounding counties.
$75,000.00
Description
A community outreach program for youth incorporating a Summer Multicultural Arts Camp in which students study drum, dance, crafts. games, sports and traditions from approximately 30 cultures and Roots, Rhythm and Rhyme After School and Saturday Arts Program, both on-site at the Global Education Center and off-site at various schools and community organizations, that offers drum and dance from around the world. Also included in our youth programming are a studio recording project that incorporates percussion, poetry and percussive dance, and Passport to Fitness, a program incorporating music and movement, targeting the problems of inactivity and obesity in today's youth through a partnership with Meharry's Department of Pediatrics. Passport to Prevention is a restorative arts program, now in its fifth year, serving incarcerated serving incarcerated youth, youth in diversion, and families of court-involved youth.
Beneficiaries
Families
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Many of our programs for youth are in their 27th year and remain some of our most cherished and sought-after programs. Designed to serve youth and families who are typically under served by mainstream arts program, our youth programs expose children and youth to the diversity of the world in a way that is welcoming, inclusive and nonthreatening. Students typically remain in the programs until they "age out," with many of them remaining involved throughout high school, college and beyond as volunteers and teachers. We are serving three and four generations of some families, letting us know that our programs are valued and culturally relevant.
Program Areas Served
While our youth programming is based in Davidson County, our students come from surrounding counties.
Budget
$197,000.00
Description
Passport to Understanding is our multicultural school outreach program partnering artists of diverse cultures with area students through hands-on cultural museum presentations, drum and dance residencies in schools, performances in schools and design and implementation of international festivals for schools, after school and home school programming. Serving approximately 35,000 students each year, from preschool through high school, in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, this is one of our oldest and most successful programs. Students and teachers may choose from ongoing, year-long programming, monthly programming, or occasional programming on demand. Passport to Understanding is in its 40th year, created by our founding director 15 years before Global Education Center was created. It is the mainstay of our important work in area schools and sets the tone for all of our work to dispel myths, dismantle stereotypes and alleviate fears while creating welcoming, inclusive classrooms.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
People/Families of People with Cancer
Long-term Success
Passport to Understanding is Global Education Center's oldest and most successful program, serving approximately 35,000 children and youth per year. The Center would not exist without its highly effective school outreach programming for which it has won awards and praise from teachers throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. From individual classroom programs to extensive drum or dance residencies to full school assemblies to fun family nights and rousing after-school activities, the talented teaching and performing artists from the Global Education Center are highly skilled and truly creative purveyors of the many cultures that comprise our communities. Whether sharing their own cultural traditions or those of the students they teach, Global artists are well trained to share traditions with respect and authenticity. They receive training in youth development, trauma informed care, social-emotional learning, and early childhood education as well as honing their own crafts.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee, Southern Kentucky
$197,000.00
Description
Passport to Understanding is our multicultural school outreach program partnering artists of diverse cultures with area students through hands-on cultural museum presentations, drum and dance residencies in schools, performances in schools and design and implementation of international festivals for schools, after school and home school programming. Serving approximately 35,000 students each year, from preschool through high school, in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, this is one of our oldest and most successful programs. Students and teachers may choose from ongoing, year-long programming, monthly programming, or occasional programming on demand. Passport to Understanding is in its 40th year, created by our founding director 15 years before Global Education Center was created. It is the mainstay of our important work in area schools and sets the tone for all of our work to dispel myths, dismantle stereotypes and alleviate fears while creating welcoming, inclusive classrooms.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
People/Families of People with Cancer
Long-term Success
Passport to Understanding is Global Education Center's oldest and most successful program, serving approximately 35,000 children and youth per year. The Center would not exist without its highly effective school outreach programming for which it has won awards and praise from teachers throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. From individual classroom programs to extensive drum or dance residencies to full school assemblies to fun family nights and rousing after-school activities, the talented teaching and performing artists from the Global Education Center are highly skilled and truly creative purveyors of the many cultures that comprise our communities. Whether sharing their own cultural traditions or those of the students they teach, Global artists are well trained to share traditions with respect and authenticity. They receive training in youth development, trauma informed care, social-emotional learning, and early childhood education as well as honing their own crafts.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee, Southern Kentucky
Budget
$25,000.00
Description
Global Education Center offers professional support for ethnically diverse artists by providing them rehearsal space and regular teaching and performing opportunities and by partnering with them to ensure inclusive programming for their various minority communities. This support includes sending artists to conferences and workshops when appropriate and bringing in artists who are considered to be masters in their field to give local artists the opportunity to study and perform with renowned artists, thereby expanding their own repertoires. A recent addition is a Community Artist Institute offering monthly workshops of interest to local community artists with plans for a certification program for artists.
Beneficiaries
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Long-term Success
We have successfully served hundreds of artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latino, and from various international heritages, averaging around 100 artists per year representing over 30 cultural identities. Some artists have grown with the Global Education Center over the years, remaining partners today. Others were birthed at Global Education Center and moved on to become separate nonprofit organizations or touring performance groups. Since 1997 we have brought world renowned artists from across the U. S. and the world for residencies in music, dance, and literary arts, both for school and community programming but also for master classes for our resident artists to help them build their repertoires and improve their ability to share their culturally unique traditions with schools and the community. We are especially proud of those artists who were introduced to traditional arts as children in our programming who have moved on to become professional artists or arts educators.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$25,000.00
Description
Global Education Center offers professional support for ethnically diverse artists by providing them rehearsal space and regular teaching and performing opportunities and by partnering with them to ensure inclusive programming for their various minority communities. This support includes sending artists to conferences and workshops when appropriate and bringing in artists who are considered to be masters in their field to give local artists the opportunity to study and perform with renowned artists, thereby expanding their own repertoires. A recent addition is a Community Artist Institute offering monthly workshops of interest to local community artists with plans for a certification program for artists.
Beneficiaries
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Long-term Success
We have successfully served hundreds of artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latino, and from various international heritages, averaging around 100 artists per year representing over 30 cultural identities. Some artists have grown with the Global Education Center over the years, remaining partners today. Others were birthed at Global Education Center and moved on to become separate nonprofit organizations or touring performance groups. Since 1997 we have brought world renowned artists from across the U. S. and the world for residencies in music, dance, and literary arts, both for school and community programming but also for master classes for our resident artists to help them build their repertoires and improve their ability to share their culturally unique traditions with schools and the community. We are especially proud of those artists who were introduced to traditional arts as children in our programming who have moved on to become professional artists or arts educators.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
Budget
$50,000.00
Description
ARTS ACCESS concert series presents local artists from diverse cultures and special guest artists brought in for residencies and performances. The season consists of 2-4 community concerts offered at Father Ryan High School or other large theaters. Concerts are affordable and accessible for all. The Global Cabaret Music Series is offered at Global Education Center monthly, presenting world music traditions featuring local and regional community artists. Each Global Cabaret features an exhibit by local visual artists. Line Breaks Literary Arts Series presents local, regional and nationally known poets representing the diversity of our community. This multicultural program makes the literary arts accessible to all while giving voice to our minority, refugee and immigrant communities. Our documentary film series is a combination of films from Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers and films by Indigenous filmmakers, both accompanied by Q & A.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Long-term Success
Arts Access Concerts typically feature a combination of local and visiting special guest artists, with themes that are set each season, such as a fall concert representing The Americas; Festivals of Light in December; our annual Global Birthday Bash in February, a fun international celebration; and a spring concert with varying themes. Our Global Cabaret concerts are offered in the intimacy of one of our dance studios, featuring both international touring artists as well as local and regional artists and are often accompanied by a gallery show that relates to the theme of the concert. Line Breaks is the oldest poetry series in the city that is not in a university setting and has a mission to present poets from a wide variety of cultures, always offering a community reading as well as a writing workshop with visiting authors. Over the years, Line Breaks has welcomed poets such as Joy Harjo and Sonia Sanchez. The film series continues to evolve and always includes a post-film dialogue.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$50,000.00
Description
ARTS ACCESS concert series presents local artists from diverse cultures and special guest artists brought in for residencies and performances. The season consists of 2-4 community concerts offered at Father Ryan High School or other large theaters. Concerts are affordable and accessible for all. The Global Cabaret Music Series is offered at Global Education Center monthly, presenting world music traditions featuring local and regional community artists. Each Global Cabaret features an exhibit by local visual artists. Line Breaks Literary Arts Series presents local, regional and nationally known poets representing the diversity of our community. This multicultural program makes the literary arts accessible to all while giving voice to our minority, refugee and immigrant communities. Our documentary film series is a combination of films from Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers and films by Indigenous filmmakers, both accompanied by Q & A.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Long-term Success
Arts Access Concerts typically feature a combination of local and visiting special guest artists, with themes that are set each season, such as a fall concert representing The Americas; Festivals of Light in December; our annual Global Birthday Bash in February, a fun international celebration; and a spring concert with varying themes. Our Global Cabaret concerts are offered in the intimacy of one of our dance studios, featuring both international touring artists as well as local and regional artists and are often accompanied by a gallery show that relates to the theme of the concert. Line Breaks is the oldest poetry series in the city that is not in a university setting and has a mission to present poets from a wide variety of cultures, always offering a community reading as well as a writing workshop with visiting authors. Over the years, Line Breaks has welcomed poets such as Joy Harjo and Sonia Sanchez. The film series continues to evolve and always includes a post-film dialogue.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
Budget
$20,000.00
Description
Global Education Center offers professional development days for teachers partnering artists from diverse cultures with pre-K through 12 teachers from across Tennessee through which teachers explore the indigenous art forms of various cultural, ethnic and religious groups residing in Middle Tennessee. This program consists of one and two-day multicultural arts institutes each academic year, plus a four-day Summer Multicultural Arts Institute for Teachers which is recognized as a national model for professional development in multicultural arts integration. In addition, we provide teacher training on demand at various school settings as well as at local, state, regional and national education conferences. On average, the Global Education Center trains approximately 300 to 350 teachers each year.
Beneficiaries
Adults
Long-term Success
Global Education Center actually evolved out of our founder's twenty years of work in anti-bias education, traveling to school systems in Tennessee and beyond to offer workshops on creating classrooms that are safe havens for all children and creating entire school environments that are welcoming and inclusive. Based on the success of this work, as well as her multicultural presentations in classrooms throughout the area, teachers begged her to open a place where they could come study in the summer. Building on the rapport she had built with teachers and minority and international parents in schools throughout Middle Tennessee, she pulled together a diverse team to create the Global Education Center, through which artists from a wide variety of cultures continue to train teachers in the art of including diverse cultural norms throughout the classroom and the curriculum. Over the years, Global Education Center has received numerous awards for its unique professional development.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee and beyond
$20,000.00
Description
Global Education Center offers professional development days for teachers partnering artists from diverse cultures with pre-K through 12 teachers from across Tennessee through which teachers explore the indigenous art forms of various cultural, ethnic and religious groups residing in Middle Tennessee. This program consists of one and two-day multicultural arts institutes each academic year, plus a four-day Summer Multicultural Arts Institute for Teachers which is recognized as a national model for professional development in multicultural arts integration. In addition, we provide teacher training on demand at various school settings as well as at local, state, regional and national education conferences. On average, the Global Education Center trains approximately 300 to 350 teachers each year.
Beneficiaries
Adults
Long-term Success
Global Education Center actually evolved out of our founder's twenty years of work in anti-bias education, traveling to school systems in Tennessee and beyond to offer workshops on creating classrooms that are safe havens for all children and creating entire school environments that are welcoming and inclusive. Based on the success of this work, as well as her multicultural presentations in classrooms throughout the area, teachers begged her to open a place where they could come study in the summer. Building on the rapport she had built with teachers and minority and international parents in schools throughout Middle Tennessee, she pulled together a diverse team to create the Global Education Center, through which artists from a wide variety of cultures continue to train teachers in the art of including diverse cultural norms throughout the classroom and the curriculum. Over the years, Global Education Center has received numerous awards for its unique professional development.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee and beyond
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| All of the programs of the Global Education Center are inter-related, providing opportunities and professional development for artists while educating the public on the value of all members of our diverse community. While no one program is more important than any other, our Passport to Understanding School Outreach is the oldest and most popular of our programs. We are extremely proud of our Global Connections for Youth programming; although it does not reach a large number of students, it is very effective and students and their families tend to stay in our programs for many years. It follows our philosophy that it is better to radically change the lives of a few students than merely enrich the lives of many. The programs that reach the largest number of individuals are our concerts, performances and festival participation out in the community, including our annual partnerships with organizations such as Earth Day, Windows on the World in Cookeville and the library's Community of Many Faces Program. Each year we serve students in approximately 150 schools and reach thousands through our community workshops and performances. We typically serve 300 - 350 teachers each year through our Professional Development Days for Teachers, our Summer Multicultural Arts Institute for Teachers and our off-campus teacher training. We rank high in teacher training opportunities in the arts in Tennessee and are recognized as a national model for multicultural arts education for teachers. |
