Can Performing Arts Bring the Curtain Down on Poverty?.

Mehuron, Tamar Ann

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Publication Date: 1990

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Can Performing Arts Bring the Curtain Down on Poverty?

Mehuron, Tamar Ann

Children Today, v19 n5 p22-27 Sep-Oct 1990

Several school- and community-based arts programs in inner city areas across the country offer choices to children and the elderly. Involvement in the arts develops self-esteem, confidence, and discipline in children and helps reconnect the elderly with society. (SH)

Descriptors: Art Education, Arts Centers, Community Programs, Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ghettos, Inner City, Minority Groups, Music Education, Older Adults, Theater Arts, Youth Programs

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Language: English

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