The second Teens Take the Met!, a museum-wide creative explosion of activities for teens, will be hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, June 5, 5:00-8:00 p.m. More than 40 cultural organizations from throughout New York’s five boroughs have teamed up to provide teens with an interactive taste of what they can do across the city at organizations large and small. The program includes workshops and hand-on activities in the visual arts, music, theatre, and dance, culminating with a dance party. The evening is free for all teens (age 13 or older) with a middle- or high-school ID.
The event is made possible by Bonnie J. Sacerdote.
WNYC is a media partner of Teens Take the Met!
Participatory projects—art-making workshops, live performances, opinionated teen-led gallery conversations, playwriting workshops, dance classes—have been designed by the more than 40 cultural and youth organizations, along with the Met’s own teen advisors. Inspired by the Metropolitan Museum’s unique and diverse collections of art, and taking place throughout the building, these activities—often led by youth who are involved with these organizations as interns, members, volunteers, or staff—will transform the Museum for the evening. (The list of collaborating organizations is attached.) Sign language interpretation, assistive listening devices, sighted guides, large print and braille information, and a designated quiet space will be available.
Teens will enter the Museum and pick up their special-event bracelets at the 81st Street and Fifth Avenue entrance or through the Main entrance at 82nd Street. The bracelets will grant youth access to teen-only activities throughout the building. Teens Take the Met! participants will receive giveaways and information about teen activities across the city. Abby the Dj will rock the crowd with music. The event will unfold throughout the galleries, and into a teen-only dance party in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, where there will be live projections of event-specific Instagram feeds. In addition, there will be free snacks and a photo booth elsewhere in the Museum.
“We are thrilled by the enthusiastic response from teens, their parents and teachers, and cultural and youth organizations throughout New York to the concept of Teens Take the Met! And we are excited that partners from the five boroughs have agreed to take part in this year’s event that reflects collective impact,” commented Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Metropolitan Museum’s Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education. “This evening expands the Museum’s already extensive roster of programs for young people ages 11 to 18, including paid high-school internships, free art-making workshops, week-long creative intensives, career labs, and year-round gallery activities.”
More than 2,800 teens took part in the inaugural Teens Take the Met! in October 2014. Teens Take the Met! takes place twice a year.
The hashtag for the event is #metteens.
Additional offerings for teens at the Metropolitan Museum are described on its
website.
May 19, 2015
COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
NYC Department of Youth and Community Development*
3D Systems*
American Museum of Natural History*
ARAS—Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism*
ArtsConnection*
The Bronx Museum of the Arts*
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn Museum*
Brooklyn Public Library*
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum*
The Dedalus Foundation*
The DreamYard Project, Inc.*
El Museo del Barrio*
Flushing Town Hall
Friends of the High Line
Global Action Project*
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum*
The Jewish Museum
Joan Mitchell Foundation*
Lincoln Center Education*
Mark Morris Dance Center*
Museum of the City of New York*
Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust*
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum Teen Summit*
National Museum of the American Indian*
The New Victory Theater*
New York Film Academy*
New York Hall of Science*
New-York Historical Society*
New York Public Library*;
No Longer Empty*
The Noguchi Museum*
New York University—Tisch School of the Arts, Photography and Imaging
Park Avenue Armory
Publicolor
Queens Theatre*
Reel Works*
Roundabout Theatre Company
Rubin Museum of Art*
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards*
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Staten Island Children's Museum*
Staten Island Museum*
The Studio Museum in Harlem*
Theatre Development Fund*
TITAN Theatre Company*
Urban Yogis*
Vanderbilt YMCA*
Whitney Museum of American Art
WNYC—Radio Rookies*
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