Teens On Tugs
This summer we initiated a partnership with the TUG PEGASUS Preservation Project, the Chinese Planning Council, and the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in a summer youth work and learn program called TEENS ON TUGS. Teenagers worked on restoring the aft cabins that housed the ship’s officers in the past and also the Galley and aft deck bulkheads. They sanded, stripped paint and needle-scaled many years of paint and restored the cabins to a functional place for meetings and offices.
The River Project The River Project based at Pier 40 utilizes the decks of LILAC for its monitoring and recording of fish and crustacean species in this are of the North River. This program has an after-school component that brings high school students to the Lilac to assist the Project
M.A.P. - Maritime Adventure Program Utilizing a model developed by Kurt Hahn that served as the basis for Outward Bound, this program will engage teens in a variety of place-based activities designed to utilize LILAC as a base camp. Set to start this fall in late September, Adventure Corps will be a volunteer after school program for teenagers. Activities will include team building exercises, camping trips and expeditions, restoration work on LILAC, biking/hiking trips, service learning projects and boat building.
Ship Of Ghouls An annual Halloween event where Lilac becomes a haunted ship full of pirates, sailors, ghouls and other undead creatures. Casted with neighborhood teens and volunteer adults, it surely can be a scary walk on the decks of a ship gone bad....
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