SMCEP 2023Newsletter Vol 3, Issue 10 |
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Welcome to our St. Mark Community Education Program newsletter! St. Mark Community Education Program (SMCEP) is a 501 (c)(3) For more information about SMCEP please contact Mike Oliver, Executive Director contact@stmarksesol.org |
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For 2023, we are holding two citizenship classes in unique venues, The Harvard Art Museum and the Old South Meeting House |
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SMCEP Volunteer Highlight Joseph Bocchicchio is a retired Crisis Worker currently working for Revolutionary Spaces at The Old South Meeting House and at The Old State House, where he is a Certified Interpretive Guide. Joe also has degrees in History and Public Health. He presents on numerous historical topics and conducts site to site tours for Revolutionary Spaces. Prior to retiring Joe was very active in the community promoting access to health care, combating opioid addiction, helping ex-prisoners become reintegrated into society, and facilitating anti-poverty programs. He has done presentations on Assault Prevention, Islam, Aging, Poverty and he has conducted creative writing workshops for women in poverty, including a short play for Theater of the Oppressed. Joe has been published in poetry and creative non-fiction journals. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine for his contribution to an anthology they published on health care professionals as they struggle with job related grief, called The Healer's Burden. Joe has been volunteering with St.Marks for the past year and will continue to do so this coming March. He will then conduct a class at The Old South Meeting House via Revolutionary Spaces. Raised in NYC Joe now lives in Boston with his wife Victoria. |
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Old MA State House * Old South Meeting House Revolutionary Spaces, the organization charged with stewardship of the Old State House and the Old South Meeting House on Boston’s Freedom Trail, is proud to partner with St. Mark’s to offer a special edition of their terrific citizenship programming. Hosting St. Mark’s 10-week new citizens training program at the Old South Meeting House, Revolutionary Spaces will offer participants access to its groundbreaking “action civics” program, providing historic context for contemporary issues in civic life and tailored to highlight the civic ideals embodied in the history of the American Revolution in 18th-century Boston as they relate to active, engaged citizenship in 21st-century America. Program participants will gain special access to both the Old State House and the Old South Meeting House and will enjoy specially curated gallery talks and tours, as well as Revolutionary Spaces’ award-winning immersive role-play program, “Revolution is Brewing,” which brings to life the meaning of citizenship in a democratic republic, past, present, and future. |
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In partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program, the Harvard Art Museums are pleased to offer a free 10-week course that will prepare students to answer the exam’s 100 civics questions and offer instruction to improve their English language skills. Special interactive tours of the American art galleries, led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, will deepen the lessons taught by St. Mark’s experienced and trained teachers in one of our museum classrooms. The course will meet every Saturday from February 18 through April 22, 2023. | | |
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