"Up With Arts", a six-week summer youth program began on July 12th at St. Luke's Church on Warren Street. The program was planned and organized by Teens Against Drug Abuse (TADA), a subcommittee of the Fall River Area Prevention Coalition organized in early 2005 to address the prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse in Fall River. Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, education in visual arts runs from 10:00 a.m. to Noon. Following a break for lunch, an improv theatre group runs from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. For further information, contact Mike Aguiar at SSTAR at 508-679-5222.
 

(Top row, left) Lindsey Croft and Will Sylvia apply paper mache´  to a wire frame sculpture. (Top row, center) Melissa Comstock, Ryan Gage, Brittany DeGagne, Ben Paull, Holli Carleton, Ali Paull and Lindsey Croft work together on the project. (Top row, right) Ben Paull, Holli Carleton, Ali Paull, Lindsey Croft and Will Sylvia find the process challenging. (Middle row, left) Ryan Gage, Brittany DeGagne and Ben Paull get the hang of it. (Middle row, center) Ryan Gage demonstrates some improve theatre skills with other look on. (Middle row, right) Paige Mercer leads a warm-up acting exercise while Melissa Comstock, Ali Paull, Brittany DeGagne, Benjamin Zhang, and Holli Carleton look on. (Bottom row, left) Visual arts instructor Jim Kay poses while students try their hand at a time-limited sketch. (Bottom row, center) Students Melissa Comstock and Paige Mercer work to complete their sketches while instructor Bobby Roderigues works in the background. (Bottom row, right) Melissa Comstock Displays her quick sketch.