FEATURE STORY
Agency & Action:
2024 Martin Luther King Day
A clip on the critical role of youth – part of our newly released programming for Martin Luther King Day 2024.
At a time when many students and families feel diminishing agency, our King Day community activity, and all Dreamline programs, help us to remember that important changes often originate from youth and are started by a small group of people.
A few years ago, the African American Museum in Philadelphia came to Dreamline to invite our collaboration for their programming on Martin Luther King Day. It was mid-COVID and fully virtual. That day produced ideas and discussion about justice, injustice and change from all ages along with simplified Dream Banners from a large audience spanning early elementary grades to seniors.
This year we are pleased to offer the Dreamline community an updated version of this program as a supplement to our Hope Rising program materials. It engages participants of all ages to reflect on the legacy of Dr. King, think and talk about injustice in our lives today, and imagine the important changes we will work to see in our world twenty years from now.
PROGRAM PROGRESS
World Without War Song Project Update
Our music video project with Dreamline students in Iran and US collaborators (featured in our November Me to We) is progressing well. Renowned Philadelphia musicians Joe Tayoun (of Jaffna) and Bill Tayoun have laid down the music tracks with keys and percussion. We are working on a plan for the vocal recordings with T-VOCE (Teen Voices of the City Ensemble), a program of The Opera Company of Philadelphia. Video content for the song project they initiated is being created by the student team in Tehran.
With luck, we’ll be able to complete production or at least a preview, by January 15, Martin Luther King Day. We have been invited by Global Citizen to premier the video at their King Day event which draws as many as 5,000 participants as well as Pennsylvania government leaders at the local, state, and national levels.
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Class Activity or Workshop
Hope Rising
A 90 to 135-minute Dreamline experience for all ages. Builds community, self-awareness, and global connections.
Hope Rising Facilitator Resource subscription is a gift (no monetary cost) to all teachers or facilitators.
Full Curriculum Program
Dream Path SEL
A 10 to 20-hour transformational Dreamline experience with over 500 Social-Emotional Learning skill integrations in the context of a purpose-driven program. Builds and measures changes in empathy, belonging, agency and prosocial behaviors.
Designed for upper elementary and middle school. Adaptable for older or younger age groups.
Access resources with a per-teacher or group subscription fee and/or grant-funded program.
FROM THE BOARD
Grant Programs Update
Our Board is pleased to announce that we recently received a grant for $10,000 from a private foundation to fund our Dream Path SEL program at several sites in the School District of Philadelphia this coming spring. The grant provides intensive Dreamline staff support for the 15-hour program, all physical and digital materials, support for local installations, as well as community participation in the culminating year-end event at Cherry Street Pier. We are in conversation with potential sites and inviting inquiries as well. Contact programs@dreamline.org.
What, Why, and Who
Dreamline’s Board is pleased to share this recently developed succinct description of what we do, why we do it, and who we are.
Year-End Donations
As 2023 draws to a close you are invited to make a year-end contribution to Dreamline. We ae a 501(c)(3) nonprofit so donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law. Our nonprofit’s operation is paid for almost entirely from individual donations. Every contribution we receive helps build our systemic solution for shifting education from a focus on skills and job readiness only to purposeful life in community.
WHAT’S NEXT
January 15, 2024: Martin Luther King Day
Register now to use Dreamline’s new Martin Luther King Day materials with your group of any size and age this year.
Dreamline will host an activity table at Global Citizen’s King Day of Service Signature Event from 9-1 on Monday, January 15 at Girard College Armory. It is free, open to all, and includes service opportunities from dozens of Philadelphia organizations.
Global Citizen’s King Day of Service has been the largest Day of Service event in the country, attracting up to 5,000 attendees. If you would like to join our group of volunteers staffing the event for a shift from 8-10:30 or 10:30-1:30 (or learn more) contact programs@dreamline.org
February 1, 2024: Birthday of Langston Hughes
The Langston Hughes poem “Dream Keeper” was a motivating force for creating Dreamline. Watch upcoming newsletters for announcements.
June 2, 2024: Dreamline Year-End Event
Watch upcoming newsletters for updates on this event happening from 1-4 pm ET at Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia. Live and virtual participation.
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