S P E C I A L P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H U W I- D C F A
CHILDREN AS AUTHORS THROUGH ART AND PARTNERSHIPS
The collaboration sends a strong message of the role of volunteerism as well as the role of arts and culture as powerful tools to engage communities and support learning environments.
Read to Rise understood early on that art and writing has developmental benefits for students such as improved motor skills, language development, decision making, visual learning, innovation, cultural awareness and academic performance. When kids are encouraged to express themselves and take risks in creating art they develop selfworth and new competencies.. If they are exploring and thinking and experimenting and trying new ideas, then creativity has a chance to blossom. With R2R resident artists, Guayaguayare R. C. students have created wonderful works of art and most recently a children’ s boo, entitled, AZ of Guayaguayare
SPECIAL Partnership with UWIDCFA
Read to Rise has been collaborating with the UWI Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education( DCFA) for three years to implement R2R.
Both R2R and UWI have mutually benefited from the collaboration; the Bridge Foundation has received extra artistic hands to conduct Art Literacy activities, the Guayaguayare students have received direct mentorship from UWI students who build students selfconfidence, share positive messages and encourage reading and art, and in turn the UWI students receive a valuable onhands academic and lifelong learning experience.
The project has also revealed the artistic and writing talent of our young & creative generation of Trinidad and Tobago at UWI and budding talent of Guayaguayare R. C. School Read to Rise will continue to formalize partnerships with artists who promote the importance of literacy through artistic expression.
A report by Americans for the Arts states that young people who participate regularly in the arts( three hours a day on three days each week through one full year) are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
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