After-school program at Southwark fosters art and bilingual skills

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After-school program at Southwark fosters art and bilingual skills

Posted: Friday, November 8, 2019
Source: South Philly Review

As the dismissal bell rang, students emptied out of Southwark School on a recent Thursday afternoon.

But, some young children stayed behind, as they eagerly anticipated an art class that cultivates lessons beyond the canvas.

For the third consecutive year, the South Philadelphia school is housing “Puentes a las Artes” or “Bridges to the Arts,” a collaborative brainchild of The Barnes Foundation and Puentes de Salud through the William Penn Foundation’s citywide Informal Learning Initiative.

The foundation recently launched a new phase of its Informal Learning Initiative, a nearly $1.6 million investment to infuse local neighborhoods with programming from the city’s major arts and science centers and museums, connecting two dozen institutions and community organizations across Philadelphia.

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