Registration for part II of our after-school fall programs will open on September 24th! Register here: thinkfeelcreate.coursestorm.com

Classes will run October 19 – December 2 (6 weeks of in person arts amazingness, as well as online options on our private YouTube channel.

Among the artsrageousness? Working with Clay, Painting with Watercolors, Mixed Media, Intro to Drumming and creating a Drum Line, Robotics and so much more!

Registration also continues for our Fall 2021 – Part I options: The CORE Youth Theater Program, as well as our SEL/Arts Integration program Who Am I Anyway? (two 10- week programs).

ALL classes require registration, carry a small fee which will allow students to keep all their supplies and materials, and all IN-PERSON classes will follow RIDOH guidelines. Our teaching artists are ready! Let’s FALL into an arts atmosphere of learning and creating!

Funding provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders.

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The CORE Org is beyond. Beyond grateful. Beyond overjoyed. Beyond ready to get to it with great thanks to the entities listed below for a RICHARGE grant that is allowing us to hire staff, order supplies, create new programming that blends SEL(social emotional learning) with arts integration, support students needing the hug of an arts class while building up self awareness through a creative process.

This grant will allow us to work with principals and district social workers with a teaching artist to create a template of learning through an arts integration. Please give a shout out to the entities above and know without them and their funding our creative choices would be limited. Registration for classes for FALL 2021 (October 19-December 2) will open on Friday, September 24, 2021 for all in person and online offerings.

Registration for Who Am I Anyway? grades 6-8 is open NOW as well as registration for our Youth Theater program that begins October 5, 2021. Fall into an arts world of amazingness!!

Today we kick off part one of our fall programs! Registration opens today for CORE Youth Theater (10-week musical theater and acting program) and for Who Am I Anyway? Look at Me! (our 14-week arts integration program at Tiverton Middle School for students in grades 6-8). Registration for ALL other after-school fall programs will open on September 24th! Register here: thinkfeelcreate.coursestorm.com

May is Show Us Your HeART Month!

Join us in showing us your heART throughout May for our first ever Show Us Your HeART Month!

Students will use their remaining art supplies from this year’s courses to create projects inspired by their feelings through wellness themes, which will be announced weekly. Students should submit a photo of their weekly art to thinkfeelcreate2021@gmail.com to be featured on our social media pages:

• The CORE Organization on Facebook
• The CORE Organization on Instagram

At the end of the month, musician Abby Hennigan will conclude this event through a virtual live performance and share her story of trying times expressed through transformative art.

Our first wellness theme is Show Us Your Gratitude! Students should submit a photo of their art to thinkfeelcreate2021@gmail.com by May 1st to be featured on our social media pages the following day. Express your gratitude in any creative medium that your heart desires! 

LEADING LADIES 2021 • SPONSORED SECTION

Gloria Crist

President & Founder of The Core Organization

Posted Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:13 am

For over 30 years, the arts have sustained Gloria Crist. The North Carolina native saw a full career working in award- winning theater, film, and television, even developing a one-woman show in Las Vegas that became stand-up comedian Don Rickles’ opening act. Along the way, she’s earned the 2012 Best in RI award for acting, graduated with an MA in Holistic Counseling and CAGS in Expressive and Creative Arts from Salve Regina, and holds certificates and memberships with several mental health associations.

Founder of THE CORE ORGANIZATION, Gloria is intimately familiar with the doors arts education opens. “I have always believed that the arts play a vital role in the well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults and created The CORE Org. to see that each and every young person has access to the creative and performing arts,” she says. The non- profit is led by professional teaching artists and attached to extended learning programming through school districts to also provide social emotional learning with a heart-centered approach.

The varied programming allows students to, for instance, see a PPAC performance for the first time through Go See a Show, or take Core Youth Theater classes in performing and applied technical arts to put on their own production. In its sixth year, Who Am I Anyway? is an arts integrated social emotional program for middle schoolers that works through topics like bullying, gender identity, depression, and more.

“My job is pure joy,” says Gloria. “At the very center of what we do, and why, is helping young people thrive and become more aware of who they are, to be kind and compassionate, and to know deep down how crucial a role the arts play in owning who they are.” Gloria remains active in the entertainment scene today and expresses herself with her blog, TraumaDramaMama. “I am most proud of being a mom to my daughter,” she says. “Everything after that is a bonus.”

156 Highland Road, Tiverton • 401-749-1203 • @glosoul and @thecoreorg