The Coolidge Launches Free Youth Education Program
Free “Coolidge Classroom” field trip program for students
grades 6–12 is the theater’s first ever youth education initiative
Developed in collaboration with an advisory committee of
local educators from five districts, Coolidge Classroom supports existing
curricula in a variety of disciplines including STEM, world language, and the
humanities, while simultaneously engaging media literacy skills and foundations
of cinema studies.
“We want to ensure the courses in Coolidge Classroom support
the work that is already going on in schools as opposed to being some sort of
cherry on top,” said Director of Education Sophie Blum, who has been working
with the advisory committee to create the program. “As we design a program that
is relevant and supportive to four different disciplines, seven grade levels,
and dozens of districts, there is a lot of cross reference that needs to
happen.”
Each film in the program will play for three sessions;
teachers are encouraged to use the online registration
form to select sessions they are interested in and will be contacted
by the theater to arrange a field trip.
Titles in the 2024–2025 program include:
Persepolis (2007, dir. Marjane Satrapi
& Vincent Paronnaud): November 18–20
Dìdi (2024, dir. Sean Wang): December
9–11
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, dir. Guillermo del
Toro): January 27–29
Flee (2021, dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen):
February 10–12
Coded Bias (2020, dir. Shalini Kantayya):
March 10–12
Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira
Kurosawa): April 7–9
At two pilot classes in late September, the Coolidge hosted
more than one hundred film students from Brookline High School for a screening
of Dìdi. Led by Blum, students discussed the film’s themes,
character analysis, and relevancy to their own lives and ate a free meal and
snacks. See photos here.
“The Coolidge’s new Education and Community Engagement
Center allows for further diversification of our education programs and who has
access to them,” said Blum. “Coolidge Classroom is a key part of that expanded
programming.”
In order to ensure youth programs are accessible for all,
the Coolidge is committed to providing free transportation and meals for
students. Coolidge Classroom is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for
the Arts.
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