Hamptons Art Camp is presented by Hamptons Community Outreach hosted by The Church in Sag Harbor sponsored by Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation. ​Hamptons Community Outreach works to bridge the opportunity gap experienced by underserved youth, families, and others across our community. Their goal is to elevate the quality of life of local children, families, and seniors — addressing their basic physical and emotional needs, while nurturing young people creatively and academically. They bring people of diverse backgrounds together in a spirit of service, generosity, and kindness. The mission of The Church is to foster creativity on the East End and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a “maker” Village. The Church champions new and traditional technologies through collaboration, education and outreach.​

Photography, Digital Art & Creative Writing Workshop The assignment was to photograph each other and create a digital collage with a written response inspired by a Native American legend or myth. The students were given an introduction by Jeremy Dennis about Native American art, artifacts, myths and legends. Technical instruction about the cameras and photographic techniques was taught by Rameshwar Das and Jeremy Dennis. Poetry and the creative process taught by Megan Chasky, encouraged the students to express their ideas in a collage of words and images. Daniela Azzi facilitated the process by guiding the students through all phases of the workshop, providing computer access and excellent instruction with the digital tools.

Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation sponsored creative collaborations with Springs Elementary School at the Robert Wilson Watermill Center in Watermill, NY. Seventy students rotated among 10 creative workshops. Students took photographs, wrote poems, sketched in nature, shot video, wrote music, made sculptures, wove friendship bracelets and performed Maori poi dances.

Food for Thought is a wellness program sponsored by The Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation. Students learn how to make healthy snacks. They also learn the importance of reading a food label and the process of branding, packaging and distributing food products. This video features: Springs School 5th Graders, East Hampton NY Joey Colavito, Health & Phys Ed Teacher Susan Blacklocke, Nutrition Instructor Erika Haberkorn, Assistant Kate Rabinowitz, Program Director Video Production: Annemarie McCoy

The Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation sponsors wellness programs at East Hampton High School, in East Hampton NY. Students were taught yoga, meditation and mindfulness as part of their phys ed class. In this video, students talk about the experience and how they learned to integrate their practice in their own lives.

Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation sponsored creative collaborations with Springs Elementary School at the Robert Wilson Watermill Center in Watermill, NY. Sixty students rotated among a panoply of art workshops. Students took photographs, wrote poems, sketched in nature, shot video, recorded music, made sculptures, wove friendship bracelets and performed Maori poi dances.

See How You Feel is a photography project to help young people inquire into the nature of seeing, stretch their point of view, and discover the emotion of creative experience. 5th graders from Springs School in East Hampton NY learned from professional photographers how to use cameras and experiment visually. The program concluded with a field shoot at an organic community farm. Students used up to date digital cameras thanks to a grant from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation.

Poetry & photography workshop presented at The Nature Conservancy Warhol Preserve, Montauk NY. Fifth grade students from Springs School, East Hampton NY explored the extraordinary shoreline environment of Montauk. They documented their experience with poems, sketches and photos. Thanks to : Paul D’Andrea, Nature Conservancy Steward who introduced the geology and natural habitat Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation Board Members Kate Rabinowitz, Rameshwar Das and Irene Tully (retired Springs School teacher) who guided drawing, photography and writing exercises Springs School 5th Grade teachers, Meghan Lydon, Tracey Frazier and Lindsay Thayer who helped to record and compile the creative works.

Food for Thought is an Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation wellness education program made possible by a grant from The Balm Foundation. Meghan Cereola’s 5th and 6th grade health classes at Springs Elementary School (East Hampton NY) learned how to make healthy snacks with nutrition experts, Susan Blacklocke and Kate Rabinowitz. They used seeds, dried fruit, cacao powder and local honey to make homemade power bars. They created original labels and packaged their snacks using environmentally friendly containers.

Poet, artist and bookbinder extraordinaire, Megan Chaskey, worked with Coleen McGowan’s 3rd grade art students at Springs School in East Hampton, NY. They created hand-made books of their original poems. Megan guided students with poetry instruction and showed them how to handprint their words with rubber stamps, then assembled their books with accordion folding or hand sewn binding. Cover materials were handmade wallpaper donated by Elizabeth Dow.

At Springs School in East Hampton, NY Megan Chaskey worked with thirty 8th Graders to write and edit personal poems. Each student created a hand-bound art book of their original poetry using fabrics and artboard. The students’ finished works of book art will be presented at a poetry reading in May.

Poi artist, Susan Blacklocke, presented a demonstration and instruction of Poi dancing to Meghan Cereola’s Adaptive Physical Education class at Springs Elementary School in East Hampton, NY. The students learned basic skills , creative dance moves, intuitive expression and a new way to tell their story.

Yoga instructors, Ashlynn Manning, Linda Muse and Jenna Minardi, taught a series of yoga classes to over 1200 students from K-8 grade at Springs School, East Hampton NY. Meghan Cereola, the Physical Education instructor supervised this series. Yoga games helped her students focus their attention and improve their kinetic awareness. The students also learned breathing and relaxation techniques for stress management.

The Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation presented 'Community Wellness Night' at the Springs Elementary School in Spring, 2016. The evening featured community yoga, live music, art projects and health, wellness and nutrition education.

Kate Rabininowitz explains and illustrates the benefits of a wellness program in schools, for students and teachers.

Kate Rabininowitz explains and illustrates the benefits of a wellness program in schools, for students and teachers.