Casita Maria, headquartered in the South Bronx, was established in 1934 by Claire and Elizabeth Sullivan as the first charitable group to serve Latinos in New York City. We goal to discover each the present realities and the rich prospects that exist for including the humanities in all types of educational settings with a variety of students — across age ranges, in and outside of schools, throughout diverse cultural contexts, and throughout all creative domains.
It’s an necessary dialog to have in our complicated society, and one that probably would not have happened without a Nationwide Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant that made the screening —as well as other arts-schooling projects the Pageant does with Columbia’s Ragtag Cinema and local public colleges — potential.
Sadly, programs like these are under risk as a result of President Trump’s current price range proposal recommends eliminating the NEA altogether It could be …