American Performing Arts Collaborative


Founders:

George Faison

Tad Schnugg

Photographs by Jonathan Atkins

The Vision:
¨ Raise civic and cultural awareness through education and community outreach programs.
¨ Develop, produce and present original theatrical works.
¨ Serve as a magnet and “nerve center” where established and emerging artist can exchange ideas, create, perform, mentor and teach.
¨ Provide work experience based training for artists and apprentices in theatrical vocations.
¨ Become a state of the art theater embracing cutting edge audiovisual theater techniques and experimentation.
¨ Provide an accessible gallery for the exhibition of visual arts of all type and culture.


Our Mission:
To reclaim, restore and rebuild our youth and our community through art, dance, music, and theater. To promote and advance artists and multi-cultural visual and performing arts productions through a multi arts center that appeals to the universal nature of humanity.



The Goal: Create a viable and sustainable Cultural Arts Center that embraces artists and arts of all kinds.



Faison Harlem Renaissance Theater and Musical Series:



Embraces plays, musicals, dance performances, performance art and concerts that are an outgrowth and transformation of the
Harlem Experience.

¨ The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
¨ The Welcoming Table
¨ Southern Journey s
¨ The Notorious E.B. Scrooge
¨ On Common Ground
¨ Heaven and the Homeboy,
The Musical
¨ Harlem Hot & Sassy

Art4You:
Developed to provide our underserved communities with top notch professional art and theatrical performances.

¨ Beneath The Streets Of New York
¨ If this Hat Could Talk
¨ Awakening
¨ Uncle Tom’s Children



Faison Youth Theater Series:

¨ The Respect Project ; A voice on teenage pregnancy , date rape, peer pressure, poverty, racism, illiteracy, gang violence and more through original dance, poetry, rap and spoken word created by NYC students. (see more below)