Session 16 Monday April 20, 2020
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Toe the Line: Arts Education for Life 80 min
This film tells the story of a dance program at a public school where neither race, privilege nor socioeconomics plays a role in who has access to an arts education. It is a Massachusetts story about a program and a teacher who uses dance and its artistry to motivate her students to use their minds and bodies to prepare themselves for life’s opportunities and challenges. The Boston Globe has launched an initiative to explore the deep inequalities in Boston’s public education system. We made this film to show how the city of Worcester has made it a priority to create an equal-opportunity program for all its students—including a high percentage of low-income, at-risk kids—on a shoestring budget. It’s a program that can be adopted or adapted anywhere else in the country.