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Reel Works’ intensive filmmaking programs support and prepare New York youth with essential insights and skills needed to make their own short documentary or narrative films. Students connect twice a week from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM to receive hands-on training, learn from professional filmmakers, and use professional equipment to make festival-worthy films. Learn more about three of their upcoming programs, The Doc Lab, The Narrative Lab, and The Narrative Fellows Program. The deadline to apply for The Doc Lab and The Narrative Lab is October 1, 2023. The deadline to apply for The Narrative Fellows Program is October 29, 2023.

City Lore's Urban Explorers Program is a year-round paid afterschool and summer fellowship program for high school students that runs from December 2023 – August 2024. This year, Urban Explorers is an application-based fellowship program that will focus exclusively on theatre. Theatre Fellows will create multi-disciplinary works in relation to places and people of the Lower East Side, as well as self-selected themes based on identity, social justice, and in response to current events. The deadline to apply is October 20, 2023.

NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47 are once again offering the incredible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to local schools and children’s choirs through the Star Choir Holiday Singing Competition. They are inviting all Tri-State Area choirs to enter for the chance to sing on the 2023 Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Show on NBC that will air on November 29, 2023 at 7:00 PM. The deadline to apply is October 12, 2023.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project’s ELLA Fellowship Program is a unique leadership opportunity for young women and gender-expansive youth ages 18-22. The fellowship encourages the leadership of young activists by providing them with the opportunity to conceptualize a project, the resources to implement it, and the support to analyze, evaluate, and learn from it. The hybrid program begins with a retreat and orientation on November 18, 2023. The priority deadline to apply is October 13, 2023. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until October 20, 2023.

Engage Every Student initiative was created by the U.S. Department of Education to provide high-quality out-of-school time learning opportunities for every child who wants to participate. They have created tip sheets on Collaborating with Municipal Officials to Support Afterschool and Summer Learning, Sharing Your Story through Stakeholder Visits, and Responding to ARP ESSER Myths as a resource for state, city, district, afterschool, and summer learning program leaders. Download the tip sheets for more information.