PROJECT PIVOT PROGRAMS
PODCAST BATTLES
CHOICES— Film & Music Production
Straight Up Theater
Changing Perceptions Saturday School
CPT INTERACTIVE IN-SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
Changing Perceptions Theater (CPT) champions Common Core standards and utilizes its own Culturally Responsive Curriculum to promote Literacy Skills and concepts, inspire Social and Emotional Learning, and develop Leadership Competencies required for College and Career Readiness.
Over the past 12 years Changing Perceptions has done amazing work for youth in schools and community organizations throughout NYC and Newark, NJ. Focusing on what we call "the confidence arts," our dynamic CPT Artistic Mentors empower young people's perceptions of themselves through Theater, Public Speaking, Video Arts and Essay Writing.
Students always present an End Product to their Families, peers and school environment at the end of CPT residencies. For more information on how to partner with CPT, simply submit the form below and we will get back to you within the next business day.
PODCAST BATTLES
Podcast Battles incorporates CP’s Choices Curriculum to teach students how to create 5-minute podcasts based on interviews with peers, family members and invited guests. Over the course of the residency, students work in production teams and compete to create the most skilled and reflective set of podcasts that center themes and interviews about the importance of choice. Artistic Mentors will execute the Choices Curriculum and walk students through the process of analyzing techniques that make for good storytelling, interviewing and podcasting. Students will also be exposed to the basics of audio editing and utilize Garage Band, a leading digital audio workstation of the 21st Century.
CHOICES— Film & Music Production
Choices— Film & Music Production is one of CP’s signature programs and the architect of CP’s Choices Curriculum. Over the course of this residency, students create 5-minute videos based on a choice they made and learned a lesson from. Artistic Mentors will execute the Choices Curriculum and walk students through the process of filming, performing, casting, and editing a 5-minute video with original music and a voice over. Participants will share their videos with peers, family and community and online. Group or independent therapy can be conducted by a professional therapist or social worker every two months to respond to some stories participants share. Students will utilize Final Cut Pro X, a leading video editing software program of the 21st Century.
Straight Up Theater
Theater and the performing arts is at the core of Changing Perceptions. Our Straight Up Theater program teaches participants playwriting, performance and, most importantly, how to work as a team/ ensemble. When participants come to Straight Up Theater, they discuss choices they have made in life and the choices characters are making in dramatic works. Students break into production teams to write monologues, scenes and short plays that center the importance of making a choice. They subsequently learn to perform their pieces and produce their pieces for invited peers, family and community. The talkback that follows the show is key to the entire process. As students lead the discussion about the impetus for their scenes with a community of parents, family, teachers and peers, an empathetic environment is created to have cause-related dialogue and to seek real-time answers on important needs and issues expressed in the students’ work.
Changing Perceptions Saturday School
Changing Perceptions Saturday School is Saturday program (10 AM to 2 PM) during the academic year that promotes historical literacy through college-style lectures and presentations, group discussions and CP’s leading programs: Podcasts Battles, Straight Up Theater and Choices. Students always begin with the Saturday with a seminar that includes a culturally based lecture, group discussion and team work that centers decision-making. Following lunch break, students split into cohorts to work on artistic projects that focus on creating podcasts, original theater or short films. The program ends at the end of the year with students presenting podcast, theater and video projects. Students increase their historical literacy, expand their knowledge of who they are as intellectual, social, cultural and artistic beings, embrace their legacy, and learn about the choices of their prolific and trailblazing ancestors.
CPT INTERACTIVE IN-SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
CPT's various in-school assemblies are entertaining and thought-provoking for ALL grade levels. CPT Executive Director Shaun Neblett has developed a fun, communal and interactive assembly format in which:
a student-body watches a play performed by 3 professional CPT actors.
the play pauses for students to reason and contribute to the play's characters, conflict and resolution.
selected students act alongside CPT Artistic Mentors.
students discuss themes in the play with CPT's Artistic Mentors and their teachers.
CPT In-School Assemblies are customized to be the perfect experience for school environments. CPT's Assemblies teach as well as entertain students. CPT Assemblies inspire dialogue amongst students on topics such as:
School Mantras
Vices vs Virtues
The Allure of Drugs, Gangs or Street Culture
Leaders vs Followers
Victim Mentality vs Leadership Mentality
Going to College