Category Archives: Kids

For the past twenty-five years, The Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) has provided rigorous summer instruction in the arts to more than 200 Kentucky students a year. GSA was established in 1987 as a program of The Kentucky Center for the Arts and Kentucky Department of the Arts. This year, 285 students were accepted to the program [...]

According to Marsha Weinstein, there are over 2,400 historical markers in the state of Kentucky. Sixty of them commemorate the lives and accomplishments of women. A quick search of the database of historical markers in the state finds that Weinstein was probably being generous in her estimate. Of all the public memorials and artwork in downtown [...]

To quote the esteemed sociologist and philosopher Alice Cooper, “School’s out for summer …. ” Well, almost. Jefferson County Public Schools classes end June 5, and some private schools are out before that. So, we meant to run our first installment of summer camps much earlier because the best programs, such as the Speed Art [...]

What are we going to do today? That’s a tough enough question when you’re a grown woman with a driver’s license and a little (very little) expendable income. But it’s a really tough question when you’re a parent with a kid or with a couple of kids who are too young to fend for themselves. There’s the [...]

Girl Power is more than an idea here. Inspired by the annual multi-disciplinary IdeaFestival held each Fall in Louisville to foster creativity, innovation and transformative learning, Louisville Girls Leadership will present the inaugural Girls IdeaFestival for high school girls, the adults in their lives and male allies. The goal of the Girls IdeaFestival is to [...]

  Kids Acting Against Cancer, a nonprofit theater troupe that performs theatrical productions to raise money for pediatric cancer research, will be performing the Tony-winning comedy “God of Carnage” April 12 -14 in the MeX Theater of the Kentucky Center for the Arts. KAAC is run entirely by kids ages 10 to 25 and 100 percent of [...]

(Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Dan Canon’s Conflicts Check website. It appears here with the permission of the author.) Back in my day, when they used to still be allowed to teach sex ed to impressionable youngsters, I must have missed the chapter in which they tell you all the insane things about [...]

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, you probably did one of three things: 1) You kissed your sweetie. 2) You, sweetie-less, said “Rabbit rabbit” because that’s supposed to bring luck for the New Year. 3) You high-fived whoever was standing next to you and shouted, “Woo hoo! Girl Scout cookie season has begun!!” [...]

A new group knows what you might not completely grasp: Teens may be using social media in ways that may come back to haunt them. Fortunately Operation: PARENT does. The Louisville-based non-profit wants to smarten you up tomorrow, Oct. 16, with its Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Series, “Parenting Social Media.” From the Operation: [...]