KRUSH GROOVE: FUNDRAISE THE ROOF - SATURDAY, JUNE 7th

New Design High School presents
KRUSH GROOVE 2008 - FUNDRAISE THE ROOF!
Satuday, June 7, 2008
Doors open at 1:00pm - 11:00pm

Krush Groove 2008 is a benefit for New Design High School art integration programs. Krush Groove will combine music, art, dance, food and film to create an outdoor community festival on our very own city block rooftop.

The New Design High School (NDHS) is a small academic high school that serves the varied needs of students from all over New York City . Located on the lower east side of Manhattan , NDHS offers students rigorous and literacy-based instruction. Additionally, we utilize the design process to teach creation, revision, and presentation in many areas. Our student-centered model of education supports the intellectual, social, emotional and artistic growth of each student. Through a commitment to the visual and design arts students develop the imaginative, creative and intellectual capacities to question, think deeply, take risks and express their ideas.

Due to city/state-wide budget cuts announced in early February, the school is being forced to discontinue numerous Arts integration programs, which include after school and summer initiatives. Programs that enable us to keep our youth off the streets and more importantly in a creative learning environment.

All proceeds of the event benefit New Design High School Art integration programs.


Hosted by: Fab 5 Freddy & M'tume Gant
Special Performances by: Andrew Thompson, Ase Dance Company, Kahlil Almustafa, Julia Ahumada Grob, New Design Music Production Students and many more.....
Dance Party Sounds by: Dj Chela, Dj Cato, Scientific, Gaslamp Killah, Dj Rabbi Darkside and New Design Turntablists!

Live Mural Art Wokshops! Live Screen Printing by Fresthetic & 1 Soul Designs! Food and beverages by Twilight Cafe!

Open Road Skate park open from 1:30-3:30pm!

Rooftop Movie Theatre sponsored by Rooftop Films
Short films by Clenched Fist Productions, NDHS Film Students & other awesome independent filmmakers! For more info check out www.rooftopfilms.com

Tickets available online at: http://newyork. going.com/event -319453;Krush_G roove_2008

Admission: $5 for youth with school ID
$15 -$25 sliding scale admission donation!
Remember all of your kindly donated dollars will directly benefit art integration programs for the youth of New Design High School!

In honor of the event, your participation and all of our sponsors hard work and dedication we would like to invite you to the KRUSH GROOVE AFTER-PARTY for the 21+ and over: NO COVER CHARGE!

Gallery Bar is located at 120 Orchard Street at Delancey.
No cover charge
21+ over with ID
All proceeds will benefit New Design High School Art Integration Programs!
Please support New Design Education!

Capoeira Fundraiser! May 31st & June 1st

This weekend we have an awesome capoeira fundraiser - Saturday, May 31st and Sunday, June 1st!
We have an amazing guest from Texas by way of Brazil, Mestre Cafuringa who will be teaching the two day intensive workshops for adult and student practioners, thanks to the awesome organization by Professor Lampreia! The two day workshops are $50 and one day of training is $30. We hope you will think of attending and getting that summer physique into shape! Donations may also be made directly to Capoeira programming by contact Sarah at 212-475-4148 x429! For more information about capoeira please see www.lampreiacapoeira.org

Saturday, May 31st -- 3:00-6:00pm
Sunday, June 1st - 1:00-4:00pm

For any other info contact Sarah at 212-475-4148 x429!

KRUSH GROOVE EVENT!

Where music, art, dance and film come together to create an outdoor entertainment community festival on a square city block museum rooftop.

Due to city/state wide budget cuts announced early February, New Design High School is being forced to discontinue numerous Arts Integration Programs, which include after school and summer initiatives. Programs that enable us to keep our youth off the streets and more importantly in a creative learning environment.

New Design High School (NDHS)
New Design is a small academic public high school with a design focus located in the historical Seward Park Campus in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The school infuses the concept of design to assist in meeeting the holistic needs of adolscents, including academic, intellectual, social, emotional, and artistic development of young people.

The Event will have 5 sections
Main stage, Secondary stage, an outdoor seated movie theater, vendor show case, and live painting.

June 7th 1pm- 11pm

APPLE INTERNS GRADUATE

Our students were the first graduating class from the Apple Internship Program at the SOHO Branch.

SCHOOL STORE TRAVELS TO AIG

Art in General hosted the school store for theri annual student show.

GOOGLE EVENT

Funraise the roof baby! Google rented out the roof to support our school programs!

BIG 80's DANCE

Shake your GROOVE thing!

NEW DESIGN CYCLES

Support the school and ride in style at the same time. These beauties go about 40 mph and cost around $600 smackers. Get out of your car and save some space for the rest of us!

www.newdesigncycles.blogspot.com
or click on the link to the right

CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE woodshop build

Students spent two weeks building our new woodshop from scratch. Eric Ratkowski from the CFA led the year 3 and year 4 crews in construction.

SPRING CARNIVAL IN FULL FORCE

Join us to celebrate the work of our students!

WORKING PLAYGROUND PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTED ON ROCKETBOOM VIDEO BLOG

Working Playground programs on RocketBoom Video Blog featuring Sound Production with Mtume Gant and Turntablism with Sam Sellers.

Please help these dynamic programs continue at New Design High School, we need your support! For information on making a donation please email Info@newdesignhigh.com or call Sarah at 212.475-4148 x429.

To learn more about Working Playground visit www.workingplayground.org

Fundraising Frenzy!

New Design High School is in serious need of donor support! In an effort to raise awareness about our amazing school, NDHS employed TheNewPop.com (Photos by Tone) to create media material to bring attention to our cool rooftop space and fundraising efforts. Check out some of the cool pictures here on our blog or at www.photobytone.com or www.thenewpop.com! Big thanks to Tone and TreVz for their creative eye and desire to help out New Design! For information on making a donation please email Info@newdesignhigh.com or call Sarah at 212.475-4148 x429.

New Design North Campus: Catskills Adventures

New Design super-teacher Marisa Brown has created an amazing North Campus experience in the Catskill mountains. Female students participated in a 3 day intersession class that focused on maintaining a farm and a stable of horses! While our young men escaped away for multiple ski weekends, the glory of snow boarding and snow tubing and intricacies of Yahtzee! Kudos to our students that challenged themselves to get out of the city and try new things! Stay turned for more adventures with Marisa Brown and the NDHS North Campus!

Health & Wellness: Stretching Class

New Design High School endorses a philosophy that the key to health is the quality of one's lifestyle, which has physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects. Therefore, the aim of the health and physical education program is to promote health and wellness through the acquisition of skills and knowledge that can be integrated into a holistic lifestyle.

Stretching & Breathing by Kate from SANCTUARY IN SCHOOLS
Stretching and breathing uses various postures to strengthen and maintain the health of the spine and back muscles. Special attention is provided to increase flexibility in tight and restricted muscles and joints that inhibit the use of the spine and back. Students will learn appropriate alignment for basic seated and standing poses, including inversions. Classes are structured cumulatively to learn to something new as the class progresses.

Breathing techniques will be taught to students during their stretching practices to help them relieve stress, anxiety and or muscular tension.

Stay tuned for information regarding SANCTUARY IN SCHOOLS and NEW DESIGN'S WELLNESS FUNDRAISER coming soon this SPRING.

To make donations to our health and wellness programs, please email sbaltazar@schools.nyc.gov

Sojourn to the Past: Our students journey through Civil Rights

For 10 days, seven New Design students and two teachers toured the South on an interactive Civil Rights Movement filed trip, with an organization called Sojourn to the Past. We visited landmarks, museums and memorials to the movement while engaging in detailed lessons on the places and people we would encounter along our journey. We followed in the footsteps of Civil Rights activists and marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, which was the scene of violent reaction to peaceful voting rights protests in 1965. Elizabeth Eckford and Minnijean Brown, from The Little Rock Nine, both spoke to us about their brave struggle to integrate Central High School in 1957. Rev. Billy Kyles, who was with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the last hour of his life, spent an afternoon with us and inspired us all with his vision of hope and his belief in the power of dreams. As a result of our intensive expedition, our students have started an action committee to address and endeavor to end racist and derogatory language here at New Design High School. We hope to continue to take students on this amazing trip each year.

For more information or to make a donation to the 2008-2009 Sojourn to the Past trip, please email info@newdesignhigh.com.

NDHS APPAREL DESIGN

The year two design students created stenciled t-shirts and matching shoes for their apparel unit.
check out the link on the right under links!

Apple-SoHo Internship

As many of you know, during our mid-winter recess we kicked off our 12- week internship program at Apple SoHo. Our 6 fantastic Junior internswere greeted with Apple's signature warm welcome at the morning huddle and soon thereafter, they began their first day of core training. I look forward to reporting back on their progress very soon!

Mtume Gant and the Turntable Technicians perform with the Music Production Afterschool Club to rock the house at the Labor of Love MIX

Mtume has done it again with production crew. The grand finale rocked the house at the MIX show for Labor of Love.

QUEEN GODDESS performs at Labor of Love

Spoken Word Artist, Queen Goddess, performed as a special guest at the Labor of Love MIX!

FAUXBIA at MIX Labor of Love Show!

Ali and Dawn performed with their group FAUXBIA at the Labor of Love Show!