The Children's Movement for Creative Education has begun an art relief program for children dealing with the traumatic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The team of artists are implementing art healing projects in family shelters and community centers in the hardest hit areas following Hurricane Sandy.

Enabling our young New Yorkers to express their thoughts feelings and wisdom through these projects is not only a step in their healing process but provides them with a voice in this current crisis.

Children's Movement for Creative Education and Smallwater present
SPECIAL ART EXHIBIT IN ROCKAWAY BEACH
Local Teens & Children display their Photographs of the community after Sandy, along with those photographs, artistically rendered, to reveal the future and healing they want to see in their community;
View the work, meet the Artists, their Families and Ron Haviv.
Open to all!
Sunday, April 28 3pm - 5pm
Location: Smallwater 183 Beach 96th Street Rockaway Beach, NY 11693
For more information, contact us on our contact page.

Spurred ahead by the insistent and consistent need for children's healing in the wake of Sandy, the Art Relief Caravan Project launched their photography workshop in the Rockaways. As the sessions draw to a close on Sunday April 28, the young participants will be celebrated with a display of their photographs and artwork for the public. Meet these delighful and earnest young 'artists' - and also their parents and celebrated photojournalist Ron Haviv who mentored the young artists in this process.

Taking place on April 28, from 3pm - 5pm, this special production, which will be held at Smallwater - a large airy Rockaway Beach house currently being used as a local hurricane relief headquarters - will be open to the public. Food and drink will be served.

About the workshop: Guided by the award-winning photo-journalist Ron Haviv and the caravan project team of art therapists, young teenagers from communities that were adversely effected by Hurricane Sandy learned how to frame their experiences, both physical and emotional. Photos of their external realities are being printed and layered with painted expressions of their internal worlds, thereby giving expression to their fears and dreams in order to find both hope in the future and solace in the present.

The Children's Movement ran much-needed and widely successful creative trauma
relief programs for children and youth in NYC after 9/11, and also in post-war
Bosnia. The current art projects focus on the
theme of resiliency with the goal of supporting the hopefulness and well being of the young participants.