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ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR ARTS DEPARTMENT... BUT WHAT YOUR
​ARTS DEPARTMENT CAN DO FOR YOU

​In this collaborative workshop targeted towards teachers and school administrators, Mrs. Joy Ferrara and Dr. Laura Landor will lead conversations on how to grow a theatre program to affect change with staff and students in their school district.

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Dr. Laura Landor (left) is the Director of Fine and Performing Arts for the Hauppauge Public School District. She has a Bachelors degree in music education from the Crane School of Music, a Masters in Ethnomusicology from Hunter College, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from St. John’s University where she did extensive research on the marginalization of minority students in the music classroom. She has previously taught band, music theory, and music for special learners at Ward Melville High School.

Joy Ferrara (right) has been an educator for more than 28 years.  She taught in the Commack School District for 10 years and became an Assistant Principal at Hauppauge Middle School in 2003.  Since 2010, Joy has been the Hauppauge High School Assistant Principal and has been an advocate for the Hauppauge Theatre program.  Working directly with Ruthie Pincus, Hauppauge’s Theatre Director, Joy has brought real-time school issues to the theatre students and charged them with creating relevant monologues and short vignettes to inform and engage the faculty and student body. ​
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This project is made possible with funds from The Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. HEARTS (Helping Enrich the Arts of Port Washington)- Fiscal Sponsor.  

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