YOUTH. SUMMER. AWESOMENESS. WHOA!

Free Center is offering two sweet (like honey) opportunities for our communities.

FreeBee’s Summer Jam in Hartford and Action Lab in Middletown.

Check out the details below for some meaningful, inspiring times for our youth.

Hartford

FREEBEE’S SUMMER JAM

Bring your youth group  to us for a buzz into urban agriculture, expressive arts, and a whole lotta fun-Free!

Organizations and Groups are invited to enroll for August 2021. Choosing days and times that work within your scheduled days. Free!

Free Center has assembled a team with deep community roots and experience in leading arts and cultural lessons developed for all ages and abilities.

Our enrichment programming offers students, organizations, and community members an opportunity to deepen their relationships with others, with their surroundings, and within themselves through activities and learning experiences of gardening, expressive arts, crafts, and dialogue.
We will explore the intersection of art and nature through collaborative inquiry and hands-on artmaking. Participants explore urban gardening, create artwork with the natural ecology of our urban landscapes, engage in imaginative experiences in expressive arts, and deepen connections within themselves and with each other.
Whether we are digging in the garden or putting poetry into movement, our focus is on cultivating creativity and community.

To enroll, an organization or community group can reach out and schedule time with us. 
Days are organized around your specific groups’ scheduling preference – a day, a week or a series of weeks. We will curate the curriculum based on your interests and time.
Free Center will follow the guidelines for summer programming outlined by the Hartford Health Department and the CDC. We’ll continue to rely on masks, outdoor education spaces, frequent hand washing/sanitizing, and social distancing to make our 2021 camp season safe
For more information contact kerry@freecenter.us
Schedule your group’s participation with zoe@freecenter.us

Kerry Kincy – Expressive Arts Institute
Kerry Kincy is an artist and community consultant who has brought her expressive arts residency, Telling Voices, to children and adults in underserved and often invisible populations in the community, schools and in residential treatment facilities. She has collaborated with private, state and nonprofit organizations throughout Connecticut. She is a core faculty member with the Shared Abilities Dance Ensemble, where dancers with and without physical disabilities work in partnership to create performances. She’s also the Director of Free Center Middletown.

Lauren Little – Urban Agriculture Educator
Lauren Little (Lauren Little Edutainment) is an urban farmer, edutainer and activist. She has worked in education for over 15 years and her passion is to share knowledge. In 2013, as a collaborative effort, Lauren developed a curriculum called Gaia’s Guides, which uses characters, original stories, jingles and dances to encourage environmental stewardship. In her work as an Urban Farmer, she managed 60 school farm plots, taught over 5000 students how to grow food, and fed more than 100 families throughout the Greater Hartford area.

Schedule your group today. Email:  zoe@freecenter.us

Middletown

Free Center + MeshEd present:
A FREE SUMMER YOUTH INTENSIVE ACTION LAB

A collaboration in community where art + creativity meet social justice.

Now enrolling for August 2021

We will provide students aged 16-18 free access to four activism labs, plus optional drop in wrap-around services: Community mural projects, garden tours, support with digital portfolios, college essay/resume, breakfast club, dinner, movie night, and more!

Book time with us this summer by emailing:  kerry@freecenter.us