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Help set-up our Facility for Children's Holiday Celebrations on Tuesday, 12/10/2024 from 12:00pm-5:0

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Help set-up our facility in preparation for our Annual Holiday Party and Class for 40 children experiencing homelessness. Prepare the facility for our annual year-end celebrations of Builders of the New World, ATW's award-winning after-school theater-arts education program, which has been serving homeless and at-risk youth living in NYC's temporary housing facilities since 1995.

To sign-up for this event, please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/BNWDecorate

When: Tuesday, 12/10/2024 from 12:00pm-5:00pm

What you will do:

  • Assemble and hang fresh Christmas garlands throughout our lobby and hallways.

  • Repair and hang Christmas lights around our lobby, hallways, studios, and theater.

  • Do light cleaning - sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning windows and other surfaces, picking up and disposing of odd-shaped or odd-textured items that cannot be swept or vacuumed. Cleaning products used: Windex, Dirtex, Pine-Sol, Endust/Pledge, Goo Gone, and other similar products with different brand names.

Other possible tasks:

  • For volunteers comfortable using tools: small repairs include tightening screws, using a hammer and nails or a staple gun to fasten items.

  • Organizing on-site equipment and supplies to create space for storing Christmas supplies and donations. This would include lifting and moving boxes and furniture.

  • Moving furniture and equipment to set-up the Theatre and the other Studio rooms in preparation for the Holiday Class

Other important info:

  • The day’s events will be videotaped & photographed for our program documentation and communication purposes. Volunteers must be comfortable with this. We will distribute Video Releases to each volunteer when they arrive to review and sign.

  • Participants must dress comfortably: sneakers / flat shoes and clothes they can move around in.

  • Rooms can be crowded with furniture and people during this volunteer event.

  • Due to the popularity of these events, participants who sign-up should arrive PROMPTLY and stay for the whole event.

  • Participants with fir or pine tree pollen allergies should take allergy medication before arriving.

  • Participants will be split into smaller groups to complete the overall. Please bring a can-do attitude to the work for the day!

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About The Actors Theatre Workshop

Location:

145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001, US

Mission Statement

ATW's mission is to teach individuals from all walks of life original creative techniques that provides them with the tools to change and to create new, original theatre that examines the conflicts that have emerged form today's cultural mix and creates hope for the fulfillment in the human experience.

Description

Founded over two decades ago, the Actors Theatre Workshop is an established pioneer in non-profit theatre that produces classical and contemporary plays, develops new dramatic works, trains and develops actors, directors and writers while making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth and the community at large. Thurman E. Scott, ATW's artistic director, Executive Producer and Founder, is a widely acknowledged expert of artistic project development, an innovator of award-winning arts curriculums and programs for proffessional artistic training, and has a long and successful history of public service to culturaly under-served communities.

CAUSE AREAS

Arts & Culture
Children & Youth
Community
Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Community

WHEN

Tue Dec 10, 2024
12:00 PM - 05:00 PM

WHERE

The Actors Theatre Workshop145 West 28th StreetNew York, NY 10001

(40.74714,-73.99242)
 

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GOOD FOR

  • Public Groups

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