2025 Day of Learning: Artful Justice and Collective Action
Join the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable at 651 ARTS for an annual Day of Learning on Equity & Inclusion
This year’s symposium will continue the work of exploring how we can transition from learning to arts-driven action towards dismantling systems of oppression in our schools, communities, and city — with a goal of building a more inclusive, sustainable arts ecosystem.
The day will feature four topic “tracks,” each with two-part breakout sessions in the morning and afternoon to provide a deeper learning and activation experience. Attendees are asked to commit to and stay within one topic track throughout the day. Topic tracks include:
- Fundraising for grassroots nonprofits and community groups
- Crafting and supporting youth-led intergenerational research, discourse, and experiences using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and hip-hop pedagogy
- Storytelling for social impact
- Working with multilingual learners, newcomer youth, and asylum seekers
These mini-cohort experiences will be bookended with plenary sessions at the start and end of the day facilitated by 651 ARTS Executive Director Toya Lillard. These plenary moments will seek to connect the dots between the sessions and the larger lens of equity and inclusion work in the arts and education landscapes. The event will also include a student performance and catered lunch and refreshments. View a schedule of the day’s programming below.
Stick around after the day’s programming and keep the conversation going during a social hour fostering community connections and networking!
Seven hours of New York State CTLE credit will be available for attendance.
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is grateful for the support of Day of Learning sponsors Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at CUNY Hunter College, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and an anonymous sponsor.
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ARTS IN EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE
The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is a community of organizations and practitioners that shares information, provides professional development, and communicates with the public to promote our work in schools and beyond. Read More The Roundtable was created in 1992 by and for a small group of education directors at Manhattan-based cultural organizations to share best practices in the then-new work of fostering arts experiences and teaching artistry in public school classrooms. Built on a model of collective earned wisdom, these educators formed a new community of practice, laying the groundwork for pervasive arts education advocacy and a shift toward comprehensive field building. Today, the Roundtable now includes every arts discipline, organizations and practitioners in all five boroughs, and teaching artists as well as administrators. Our membership includes thousands of practitioners from over 125+ organizations, representing New York City’s largest and smallest cultural institutions, community-based organizations, and youth organizations from all 5 boroughs. The Face to Face conference, instituted in the Roundtable’s first year, has grown to become the largest arts education gathering in the region. As the main convening body for NYC arts education practitioners, the Roundtable is now the go-to hub for information, advocacy, and community among arts education professionals in New York City. As a true grassroots service organization, the Roundtable’s vision and reach continues to evolve along with the arts education field in New York City. The Roundtable builds its efforts around the value that arts education should be a right for all New York students, especially students with disabilities, students from low-income communities, and Black, Indigenous, and students of color.