R.E.A.C.H
The Museum of the City of New York strives to engage visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting New York City’s past, present, and future by building diverse and inclusive community based initiatives. Through the R.E.A.C.H Initiative, the Museum is able to foster a space for storytelling, creativity and reflection with New York City youth. R.E.A.C.H. is a teen-focused program rooted in Research, Education, Arts, Community, and History, with the goal to further uplift, socially and culturally, the future generation of New Yorkers. This program encourages students to embrace the power and responsibility they share in shaping the future of their individual communities and New York City as a whole.
In the Summer of 2022, the museum provided artistic, engagement programs such as the Visual Arts, Performing Arts (Theatre Performance and Singing), and Media Arts (Film and Photography) serving over seventy Summer Youth Employment participants representing all five boroughs. The Museum aims to expand this program through other mediums of creativity such as Fashion and Dance in the future, with the goal of continuing the work of supporting the growth of young New Yorkers in every positive walk of life they dream of striving towards.
We are continuing our R.E.A.C.H engagement with our upcoming R.E.A.C.H Photography Program, a bi-weekly photography program starting Saturday, March 4, 2023 from 11am – 2pm until Saturday, June 24, 2023.
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For the 2022–2023 school year, we continued the work of R.E.A.C.H through a more intimate offering of the R.E.A.C.H Documentary Photography Program. This visual storytelling program is designed to introduce High School students ages 14-18 years old to a diverse range of photographic approaches for creative expression and documentation. During this 9-week photography intensive, students are encouraged to build investigative skills and technical knowledge necessary to be visual storytellers. The student-centered curriculum focuses on developing a visual voice and refining craft as a visual storyteller through a series of lectures, labs, field trips, guest speakers and assignments. Students also explore and engage with innovative media through MCNY Exhibitions and NYC history at the Museum. The Spring session will run every other Saturday from March 4, 2023 – June 24, 2023. The application deadline is Monday, February 27, 2023.
