 WELCOME TO MIND, BODY, AND SERVICE (MBS):
Youth Program: Since 1980, Pin Points has created community plays with young people from some of the most impoverished DC neighborhoods and transformed them into award winning productions that have toured thirty-seven states and nine countries, giving our youth life-changing exposure to a
diversity of information, people, places, and experiences. Participants
are given endless choices of activities from dining out to martial arts to
IT Certification - as they become what they explore.
Through the process of theater, youth learn that acting is the art of
communicating a message that causes someone to act, react, and/or
take action. Youth then discuss, plan, create, organize, and implement projects that address their issues. Taking ownership of "MBS" encourages them to take ownership of their choices in life.
*The above is accomplished with a format of theater, learning on the move, role-playing, long-term mentoring, and training in the performing arts. "Learning on the move" is especially effective because many students find classroom learning difficult, but all students learn through movement. See: (Learning & Movement)
The MBS Mantra
You have two ends with a common link.
With one you sit. With one you think.
Success depends on which you use.
Heads, you win. Tails, you lose.
Final Production:
At the end of each year, all members from each location participate in a grand production where youth receiving training in computer technology, boxing, martial arts, basketball, music, hip hop, acting, singing, writing, etc. will all rehearse and perform skits around their particular interests - exposing all youth to each others’ field of expertise:
LOCATIONS
(Transportion is often provided.)
LEARNING & ARTS CENTER AT RYLAND UMC
3200 S Street, SE - Wash., DC 20020
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AP SHAW CONGRESS HEIGHTS UMC
421 Alabama Avenue, SE - Wash., DC 20019
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BROOKLAND MANOR STUDIO THEATER
2525 14th Street, NE - Wash., DC 20018
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TONY BELL'S GYM
2201 Shannon Place, SE - Wash., DC 20020
(includes boxing & martial arts)
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SPRING LAKE RECREATION CENTER
6101 Cherry Lane, Greenbelt, MD 20770
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NOTE: PIN POINTS THEATRE’s youth program follows the guidelines of:
(1) Positive Youth Development put in place by the National Training Institute for Community Youth Work Academy for Educational Development, Wanda E. Fleming and Elaine Johnson, October 1996;
(2) Improving After-School Program Quality by the William T. Grant Foundation, April 2007 and the;
(3) Advancing Youth Development by the Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, 2009.
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