Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation Sponsors Project at Amity

Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation has published some of their educational program highlights in their Summer 2019 Newsletter.

In 2019, the foundation sponsored 33 educational programs in the greater New Haven, Bridgeport and Valley regions. Their goal is to provide opportunities to learn in new and creative ways and to "level the academic playing field" through arts-based programming so that all students can experience the joy of a sense of accomplishment.

Woodbridge, CT - The issue of protecting our environment, the dangers of single-use plastics, and the need for life style change was the focus of an innovative Plastics in the Ocean Project by Valerie Cournoyer's Marine Biology students at Amity High School in Woodbridge. Students created a 5-foot long Sea Turtle sculpture made of single-use plastics which served as the centerpiece of Amity High School's Plastics Awareness week shared with the entire Amity student body and with visiting elementary school students. The project and turtle sculpture will be presented at the National Marine Educators conference this summer.

Click to read about an upcoming fundraiser for Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation.

Nancy Sasso Janis, writing theatre reviews since 2012 as a way to support local venues, posts well over 100 reviews each year. In 2016, her membership in the Connecticut Critics Circle began and her contributions of theatrical reviews, previews, and audition notices are posted not only in the Naugatuck Patch but also on the Patch sites closest to the venue. Follow the reviewer on her Facebook pages Nancy Sasso Janis: Theatre Reviewerand Connecticut Theatre Previews and on Twitter @nancysjanis417 Check out the NEW CCC Facebook page.

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