Dreams for the New Year

New Years is all about resolutions, dreams, and new opportunities. At the Community Art Center (CAC) in Cambridge 128 youth ages 5-19 spent 2013 participating in the School Age Child Care or Teen Media Programs. On all but 14 days last year the CAC extended their network of social and emotional support programs to these kids, offering academic help, mental health counseling, transportation services, and up to three meals a day. And I can’t forget to mention their outstanding Do It Your Damn Self! (DIYDS!) Film Festival that Microsoft New England hosted and featured here on the blog.

But that was last year. The CAC has even bigger dreams for 2014. And to broadcast these the world, the children of CAC crafted a poem entitled “The Perfect World.” In this poem Isis, Jahmayah, Seira, Sergio, MarcKenzy, Gio, Nekoh, Elijah, Erin, Shannon, Jeovany and Catherine shared what their dream world would look like. Listen to the poem as read by Ashley in the video below. They dream for peace, equality, better education, no crime, delicious food, and so much more.

The dedicated staff at the CAC will continue to help these children achieve their dreams and beyond this year. They will continue, as their mission says, “to cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods, and their worlds.” Be on the lookout for the public art that 14 CAC youth have been commissioned to create in and around Kendall Square. To learn more about the CAC check out their website and consider donating here.

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