Programs

All Action Arts League activities demonstrate participatory art and/or help people get prepared for participatory arts related events often leveraging media to inspire wider audiences toward like activities.

Education

The EXPERIMENTAL FASHIONS After-Schools Program is a high school level arts program that teaches kids how to create costumes and day-day fashions while getting them involved in participatory arts oriented activities such as holiday celebrations, arts festivals, parades, block parties and theatrical projects.

HEALTHY HALLOWEEN is an annual healthy-community educational program launching in New York City with plans to expand nationally. Its mission is to create a new culture for kids expanding the Trick or Treat concept towards creativity while de-emphasizing processed sugar candy. Health Halloween involves school projects leading up to Halloween and an exciting new "trick or treat trail" concept offering kids interactive/artistic diversions, healthier treats, educational products and toys in supervised environments. Healthy Halloween launches this year in coordination with the second annual Tompkins Scare Park Halloween (see below).

Arts Festivals

TOMPKINS SCARE PARK is being developed in Tompkins Square Park in New Yorks, East Village-- the best place on earth to launch a new Halloween festival. Tompkins Scare Park strives to be a quintessential New York City celebration engaging kids, families and artists in this storied park. This is a first-of-its-kind"participatory theatre" event involving local artists and community members collaborating in the creation of costumes, decorations, creative competitions, poetry and song in coordination with the Healthy Halloween Trick or Treat Trail. This is a collaborative effort between many of New York's most creative people that will demonstrate the artistic brilliance of NYC and the postive, colorful nature of Halloween.

The FIGMENT Arts Festival is a participatory arts festival for being developed for Governor's Island that will demonstrate a glorious cultural use for this amazing island. Its mission is to create a new kind of arts event in New York- an event based on participation, rather than observation. The arts projects that will be sponsored by the festival with be ambitious and interactive including visual arts, performance art, cutting-edge electronic art, fashion/ costuming and participatory installations. Nicknamed "Art Island" this will be an annual event with temporary artistic structures and, like Tompkins Scare Park, numerous participatory art zones and ongoing events administered by partner organizations.

Other

The ARTISTS ADVOCACY program helps artists connect to more professional opportunities, become more self-sustaining in pursuit of their art while bringing more participatory art to more venues facilitating further awareness for both the artists and this growing artistic movement.

The ALT.OSCAR AWARDS EVENT is an annual, high-profile AAL fundraiser that demonstrates the inclusive and artistic nature of the participtory culture arts movement. Our red carpet is open to all and attendees are invited to come as the favorite film star, pop-culture icon or their own version of celebrity.

COSTUME CULTURAL SOCIETY is dedicated to the growth of the costume arts and is a dba of Action Arts League for costume specific programs.

BEIJING - NYC is an annual AAL sponsored interactive arts show in support of Chinese interactive video/ performance artists. Its debut was in March 2007 in a Little Italy art gallery.