- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
Crown-Making Prep Workshop for 40th Annual Three Kings Day Parade
ORGANIZATION: El Museo del Barrio
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
We’re searching for Volunteer super-estrellas as we celebrate the holiday season at El Museo del Barrio.
CROWN MAKING WORKSHOPS
This year El Museo will celebrate 40th Annual Three Kings Day Parade with renowned procession through the streets of El Barrio, a time-honored tradition featuring live music, colorful puppets, camels, sheep, donkeys, dancing, and parrandas. In preparation, we’ve schedule a series of art-making workshops, where Volunteers will help makeand decorate crowns to distribute to the participating children during the parade.
Number of Volunteers Needed: 12 per day
Where: El Museo del Barrio’s 3rd Floor Taller
Skills Needed: Enthusiasm and joy to serve El Barrio's community. Outgoing volunteers are especially welcome. Instructions will be provided prior to each workshop.
*Volunteers must pre-register in order to participate. Interested? E-mail us at volunteers@elmuseo.org
More opportunities with El Museo del Barrio
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About El Museo del Barrio
Location:
1230 Fifth Avenue, (Between East 104 and 105 Street), 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10029, US
Mission Statement
El Museo del Barrio is New York's premier Latino cultural institution. The Mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. Through its extensive collections, varied exhibitions and publications, bilingual public programs, educational activities, festivals and special events, El Museo del Barrio educates the public about the diversity of art and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Description
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, many Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists and activists in East Harlem felt that their cultural experience was not represented in New York's major museums. In response to these concerns, Raphael Montanez Ortiz founded El Museo del Barrio in 1969. During this time, major art institutions were encouraged to decentralize their collections and to represent a variety of non-European cultures.
Initially, El Museo del Barrio operated in a public school classroom and later relocated to brownstones in "El Barrio," the Spanish-speaking neighborhood that extends from 96th Street to the Harlem River and from Fifth Avenue to the East River on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In 1977, El Museo del Barrio became a member of the Cultural Institutions Group of the City of New York and found a permanent home in the spacious, neo-classical Heckscher Building at 1230 Fifth Avenue.
In 1978, El Museo del Barrio became a founding member of the Museum Mile Association, which consists of nine of the city's most distinguished cultural institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, and The Museum of the City of New York.
El Museo del Barrio has broadened its mission, collections, and programs in response to substantial growth in the Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean communities, both in New York and nationally. El Museo del Barrio's permanent collection remains a treasured resource for developing exhibitions and education programs. In recent years the public programs have addressed the educational needs of diverse populations--seniors, adults, adolescents, public school students, and very young visitors. By reaching out to younger generations, the musem is seeking to build the next generation of museum-goers.
To celebrate our 40 th anniversary, El Museo will re-open to the public on Saturday, October 17 th 2009 with renovated facilities and the opening of the landmark exhibition, "Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis." The opening will also showcase the new Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries which will feature highlights of our permanent collection.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1230 Fifth Avenue (between 104th- 105th Street)New York, NY 10029
DATE POSTED
November 7, 2016
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A