The Skidaway Abigails have invited Skidaway Hamiltons members to join them for their December Program
December 10th Zoom Meeting at 3:30 PM
The December speakers will be from the Deep Center, an award-winning Savannah based nonprofit working with young people to help create a fairer and more equitable Savannah through arts education and advocacy.
Dare Dukes, Executive Director of Deep Center will join us with his team, Coco Papy, Communications/Development Director, and Keith Miller, Director of Youth Programming to discuss the creative and transformational work they do with young people from Savannah public schools. Using creative writing, art, and culture, they help young people connect their learning to their lives, their lives to their communities, and their actions to transformational change. Deep Center also works with adults to help them see youth in their full humanity and to identify and advocate for legislative policies that make Savannah a healthy place for all young people and their families.
In 2015, Dare Dukes and a young creative writing participant travelled to the White House and accepted a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for Deep Center from First Lady Michelle Obama.
Dare Dukes, Executive Director of Savannah-based Deep Center since 2014, earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School (NYC), an MFA in Theater from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in English Literature from the College of Holy Cross. He is a National Writing Project Teaching Consultant and a National Afterschool Matters Fellow (2015-2017). Dare has grown Deep Center from a much loved, local, after-school program to a national leader in the fields of arts education and youth and community development. He is currently a member of Savannah Mayor Van Johnson’s Race Equity and Leadership Taskforce.
