NYU Steinhardt's high school residential summer art intensive allows young artists ages 16 to 18 the opportunity to explore their ideas in the heart of the international art world. Students will expand their skills, liberate their imaginations, and enrich their understanding of contemporary art. ...

Since 1914 PAL has been serving New York City is youth with safe, structured programming designed to engage boys and girls in positive activities that improve their quality of life, present developmental opportunities, and offer the prospect of a brighter future. ...

In all our filmmaking camps, each student writes, produces, directs, and edits his or her own films. In addition, they each assist other members of the crew in the roles of director of photography and assistant camera person, providing all with extensive set experience. The acting and animation camps are just as intensive and thorough. ...

In 1914, Police Commissioner Arthur Woods began a social movement that would eventually be known as the Police Athletic League. CommissionerWoods, a well-known advocate of New York City's poor, worked closely with the Commissioner of Charities, John Kingsbury. Commissioner Woods instructed police officers to seek out the needy in their precincts and bring these people to charitable persons or organizations for help. Commissioner Woods had a special concern for the poor children who lived in the congested tenements of New York City with no safe places to play. In reaction to this problem, the police commissioner organized a city-wide search for vacant lots which could be converted into playgrounds. In addition, he set aside 29 blocks as playground blocks, where traffic was prohibited inthe afternoons every day except Sunday. ...

Located less than 45 minutes from most of our bus pickup points, the 14th Street Y's New Country Day Camp sets your child down in the middle of New York's natural beauty. Swimming pools, hiking trails, and open meadows are the setting for this camp at Staten Island's 75-acre Henry Kaufman Campground. ...

Learn: Stand-up Comedy, Comedy Writing, Improv and On-Camera Acting Skills.

End result: your own personal stand-up comedy routine.Taught by stand-up comics and improv performers and teachers at the Gotham Comedy Club. The last class of On-Camera Auditioning will be attended by a casting agent from one of the major television networks to see the kids and critique their reading. Last class - stand-up and improv performance for family and friends. ...

Students will spend two full weeks working in a hands-on atmosphere learning performance techniques and the art of being in a rock band. Workshops will include group lessons on an instrument of their choice (guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and vocals), music theory instruction, rehearsal technique, performance practice, songwriting fundamentals, sound engineering basics, and multi-track recording, in addition to plenty of group band rehearsals. ...

Like most settlement houses founded in the late nineteenth century in New York and other cities, Hudson Guild was an experiment in social reform. ...

Girls Quest was founded in 1936 as Girls' Vacation Fund by Ruth Uarda Zirkle Kauth, a social worker at the Henry Street Settlement House. She led a group of visionary women to provide recreation and health programs for the sisters of boys attending the Boys Athletic League's summer programs, which her husband, Willard L. Kauth, co-founded. Mrs. Kauth and her friends opened the first camp in 1936, Camp Manitou in Central Valley, NY, to provide a two-week vacation for over 100 girls between the ages of 8 and 13. The Girls' Vacation Fund was a reality. ...

For more than seventy years, Girls Quest has been the key that unlocks a world of possibilities for New York girls. If you're ready for an adventure that can change how you see the world, think about Girls Quest. You'll make new friends, learn new things, and have lots of fun! ...