Teen Arts Week Returns March 11-17; 92NY Hosts Ramp-Up Event Wed Feb 28

Teen Arts Week returns to NYC from March 11 – 17, 2024. Launched by 92NY’s Teen Producers in 2019, Teen Arts Week celebrates the best of arts programming for teens around NYC, in collaboration with leading cultural organizations in all five boroughs. With participants ranging from the Brooklyn Ballet and Queens Museum to The Met, Snug Harbor and more, Teen Arts Week offers a full schedule of free classes, workshops, and performances for teens all over the city. These events enable teens to gain hands-on experience in different areas of the arts, engage with professionals in the creative industries, and explore pathways to future leadership within the context of the arts. See our growing list of participating organizations below. 

From March 11 – 17, the Teen Arts Week festival will feature free daytime, after-school, and weekend cultural events in areas such as art-making, literary arts, music, dance, theater, film & media, and college/career readiness. Registration for Teen Arts Week events will be open to anyone 14-18 with a valid school ID. To see the full list of events and R.S.V.P. to attend, go here. 

Participating Organizations: 

92NY, Art Lab, Arts Connection, BRAC, Brooklyn Ballet, Brooklyn Museum, CUP, Classic State Company (CSC), The Climate Museum, Dancewave, DCTV, Gallim, Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (JCGO), Guggenheim, Hill Art Foundation, JCAL, Lincoln Center Presents, Mark Morris Dance Group, Museum of Art and Design, New-York Historical Society, Noguchi, The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, Open Source, Paley Center for Media, Queens Museum, Queens Teens Institute, Reel Works, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Staten Island Urban Center, The Met, Urban Glass, and more 

In anticipation of the festival, 92NY will host the Teen Arts Week Ramp-up Event on Wednesday, February 28 at 10:30 am – 1 pm at 92NY. The event will feature live performances and an award ceremony honoring NYC teens—one from each of the 5 boroughs—who have made a significant contribution to their community through the arts. Attendees will also have the chance to learn about the amazing roster of cultural events taking place throughout NYC from our Teen Arts Week participating organizations. 

Featured Artists at the Ramp-Up Event are Passion Fruit Dance Company; Eleanor Roosevelt Percussion Ensemble; a student film by Manal Fadlalla from Reel Works, and more. 

Teen Arts Week Community Artist Award Winners: 

BROOKLYN 
Rocco Papandrea: Composer, Musician, Peer Leader – Edward R. Murrow High School 
As a composer, musician, and peer leader, Rocco creates guitar, jazz, and orchestral musical arrangements for school and community events, performs in them, and generously publishes his scores free of charge to his website. 

QUEENS
Alisa Nudar: Visual Artist, Advocate – Bard High School Early College Queens 
A visual artist and advocate, Alisa uses her art to call attention to issues such as women’s health, catcalling, and harassment through her platform Cat Calls of NYC, and her partnership with the Lower East Side Girls Club group, Brushed by Advocates. 

THE BRONX
Leilani Sereno: Vocalist, Musician, Community Leader – Renaissance High School for Musical Theatre & The Arts 
A singer, musician, and community leader, Leilani performs at local events and elderly community centers throughout the Bronx, in outreach concerts across the city as a member of Music with a Message, as well as serves in student government to advocate for more performance opportunities at her school, where she does advanced choir and studies piano.

STATEN ISLAND
Fatu Kiadii: Vocalist, Musician – Susan Wagner High School 
Fatu is a vocalist, musician, and Lang Arts Scholar who strives to spread her love of the arts as a unifying force by performing throughout Staten Island with her school’s marching band and encouraging her peers to join her community choir, which she participated in from 1st to 9th grade. 

MANHATTAN
Aïda de-Souza Nianduillet: Dancer, Mentor, Peer Leader, Léman Manhattan Preparatory School
Aïda, a dancer, mentor, and peer leader recognized as a “lighthouse” within the Dancewave community for excelling in the advanced dance class and mentoring younger dancers, also founded her school’s first Dance Club and serves as president of the Black Student Union.  

Reps from these participating institutions will be available for students to mingle with after the event ends: Guggenheim Museum; The Center for Urban Pedagogy; NYC Arts in Education Roundtable; Brooklyn Ballet; Mark Morris Dance Group; Open Source Gallery; Bronx River Art Center; The Noguchi Museum; Brooklyn Museum; New-York Historical Society; Climate Museum; Dancewave; Queens Museum; The Met; Reel Works; and Lincoln Center. 

About 92NY and Teen Producers  
Launched in 2019, Teen Arts Week was spearheaded by 10 high school students in 92NY’s Teen Producers program, a paid, two-year career exploration and mentorship program that helps high school students acquire the tools they need to develop as artists and contribute to programming here. For more information about the Teen Producers program go here.