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PS/IS 210, The Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership, offers a rich and dynamic arts program. Students in grades Pre-K through eight have weekly visual arts, music, and theater/dance classes. Middle-school students have additional opportunities for arts instruction during elective periods. The school maintains relationships with The New Victory Theater, Theater Development Fund, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Museum of Modern Art, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Guggenheim Museum. Our music class provides piano, drumming, recorder, xylophone, and voice lessons, chorus, outreach concerts, music composition, music theory, and music history. The visual arts offerings include drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture and a clay program (with a kiln in the school arts department), 2D graphic design and digital media. Theater students engage in playwriting, acting, improv, musical theater/dance, choreography, technical theater, stage composition, directing, and staged performances in and out of school. In addition, students engage in critical thinking in all arts disciplines. Field trips to museums and other cultural organizations frequently supplement classroom instruction. Many opportunities for sharing arts experiences with the school and community exist: concerts, staged performances, graduation ceremonies and art displays in the school's hallways and display cases. Covid disrupted this this year.
