Projects
Since the American Revolution: Duty, Service , Sacrifice
We are effecting change in multiple areas including literacy, theater, the arts and inspiring the youth through mentoring.
Beyond the Uniform Initiatives
Oscar Micheaux Theater Program
History: Established in 1997
The Oscar Micheaux Family Theater Program Company, also called the “Company” was created and developed by Haywood Fennell, Sr. and is based in Boston and has been in existence since 1997. It has maintained a high standard for teaching basic theater and collaborating with other partners in the Performing Arts. We teach from a basic thematic curriculum that prepares our students and cast members to learn how to perform on stage. Through collaborations and volunteers we have been able to establish our program and now have made developmental adjustments as we seek to become one of the main resources for cultural enrichment in our City.
Staff:
Program Founder/Artistic Director: Haywood Fennell, Sr.
Music Department: Sister Monica Anderson-Spencer
Stage Manager: Stanley Thompson
Property Manager: Karyn Harris
Audio and Lighting Technician: Wil Spencer
Veterans Reading Brigade
OBJECTIVE: To involve Veterans as volunteers that attest to Veterans being an overlooked and under used community resource in youth education development. We will create through research and data collection a model literacy alternative system with a standard curriculum for replication in middle schools. The themes of the importance of reading culturally sensitive books that create critical thinking and conflict resolutions and the avoidance of using racial and ethnic slurs. Additionally, Black Veterans calendar that spawned from the calendar and art exhibit and a curriculum on literacy enhancement will be in place to raise the levels creativity and of interest in performance by the participants.
Collaborators: AFRAM Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, (ULEM) William Joiner Center, U/Mass Boston Boston Public Library William E. Reed American Legion Post No. 16 Organization of African American Veterans Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement, (MAMLEO)