The New Utrecht documentary team investigates the events surrounding the Crown Heights riots, which occurred twenty years ago this year. They discover that the Brooklyn College Community Partnership was founded in part as a response to the violence, to promote inter-cultural understanding and peace, and to create dialogue within a community full of tension.
Olay, Juliana, and Marina are ready to bowl!
Who knew bowling shoes could be so cool?
Jessica and Jennifer bowl in sync
Shivonne shows Hamza the correct finger placement
Team New Utrecht!
Hamming it up for the camera
Posted in Project PEACE, Trips
Tagged bowling trip, Maple Lanes, New Utrecht High School, Project Peace
The New Utrecht program Seniors were treated to a special lunch at the lovely East Ocean Buffet in honor of their academic accomplishments. We are truly proud of our students and wish them success in their next important phase of life.
Congratulations to Jacquana Brown who will be attending Monroe College in New Rochelle, Maxim Francois who will be attending LaGuardia College, Shivonne Assanah who will be attending John Jay College, Leutrim Qoku who will be attending the College of Staten Island, Steven Castro who will be attending New York City College of Technology, Katia Cuellar who will be attending the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Susana Loo who also will be attending New York City College of Technology.
WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU ALL! YAYYYY CLASS OF 2011!
PS – sorry to those students who could not make the lunch because of the weather. We’ll celebrate at the end of the year party!
Posted in Project PEACE
New Utrecht High School’s Project Peace Video Club walked around Besonhurst and Flatbush and filmed moments of beauty and random acts of kindness- people holding hands, hugging, laughing and helping each other out. Here is a video montage of those moments and some memories from this past year.
Some of our students visited Sunset Park Senior Center to help out for the day. We prepared lunch, served the seniors, and were on dish duty! The best part of the day was hearing the stories they had to tell. It was a fun day for both the students and the seniors.
The kitchen crew
Susana getting the rundown on how the kitchen works
Jacquana loves doing dishes!
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Ian pulls up in his truck farm.
He even has plants in his front seat.
Ian explains to students about the benefits of growing your own food.
It's a jungle in there. While his truck is parked in the urban jungle, people have been adding their own additions to the truck farm, including many toy animals, including this tiger. Roaaar!
The students choose the plants they want to grow, lemon basil or carrot?
Everyone now has their own seeds to sow.
Posted in Project PEACE
Abdul making his "By Appointment Only" sign
Arin and Roberto lend Mansoor a hand with his banner
Steven wearing the tie he made for the barber~ with his own personal motto on it, "I'm my own boss."
Jacquana super focused
Team barber shop working on their collage of the barber's favorite memories
Mads from CUPS and Atif hard at work
Team 99 cent store working on their milk carton container
Atif getting really artsy on us
Posted in Pictures, Project PEACE
Tagged art intervention, Bensonhurst, Center for Urban Pedagogy, CUPS
The sound and camera team, Susan and Elie!
2011 marks the 20 year anniversary of the Crown Heights Riots. The New Utrecht documentary team went back to Crown Heights to interview some of the residents to see how the neighborhood has changed since then. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the upcoming documentary, coming soon!
We braved the chilly weather to get our interviews!
The frist person we interviewed for the documentary remembered the riots well and gave us good first hand accounts of what happened.
The documentary team asked some diffucult questions such as, "Do you think race relations has changed since the riots?" But Dovid answered candidly and with great depth. He said he was only 2 years old at the time, but the aftermath of the riots and the racial tension still lingers in the neighborhood.
We happened to run into someone coming from the peer mediation center who had just come from a meeting about the 20 year anniversary of the riots~ what a coincidence!
Posted in Project PEACE, Video
Tagged 20 year anniversary, Crown Heights riots, documentary, interviews
In recent weeks, we have visited Brooklyn College a few times to engage in different activities, such as Dress For Success event at BCAL and to spend some time playing video games at the Student Center (SUBO). Here are some of the pictures from the trips.
Posted in Pictures, Project PEACE
We were inspired by Gillian Wearing’s series entitled Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say. In this series, Wearing approached strangers on the street and asked them to express themselves through words written on a sign. The New Utrecht Video Club took to the same task and came up with their own messages, some funny, some serious, and many inspiring.
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We also practiced our acting skills. Each pair was given a scenario to act out through facial expressions and gestures. Here is a sampling of scenarios from our aspiring young actors.
Someone spilled something on your favorite shirt.
The President just called you.
You just won the Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
You just won the lottery!
You're on a cross country trip.
You're on the cover of men's Vogue.
You're rappers!
Posted in Pictures, Project PEACE, Writing
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