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School, keep them from dropping out, help them get better grades and maybe even go to college. >> we wrote a play called dream yard which is about a place that kids could go to and their parents had forgotten how to get there. that's all it was in the beginning was just us creating art with young people. what was powerful about it was it changed their connections to learning and education. >> i'm a spontaneous photographer. i don't like to stop and have someone say cheese. i like it i'll take a picture. >> i love to paint, just because paint is a type of thing where sometimes making a mistake ...

20-something guys had a dream. they believed that arts programs could keep kids engaged in school, keep them from dropping out, help them get better grades and maybe even go to college. >> we wrote a play called "dream yard" which is about a place that kids could go to and their parents had forgotten how to get there. that's all it was in the beginning was just us creating art with young people. what was powerful about it was the way it changed their connections to learning and education. >> i'm a spontaneous photographer. i don't like to stop and have someone say cheese. if i like it, i'll ta...

Are often the first things to go. why is it so important to you? >> well, my mom was a high school drama teacher, so from the time truly i was born, she was always -- i was tagging along to her directing school plays. my first performance ever i was 3 years old, and she put me in one of the high school plays and i was a munchkin in "the wizard of oz." and it was so thrilling to me, i was in the chorus, i had no talent to speak of but it was thrilling. i just don't think that everybody bounds out of bed for an algebra test. i think that that's what keeps kids in school, and i've always felt tha...

Fundraiser. maybe we could do just a little bit more than that for the kids. ♪ >> my husband and i have chosen to support dream yard by creating a four-year scholarship. we are honored and excited to present the first to charles p. lord, dream yard scholarships. we'd like to invite up sony keith and leann torres. >> my mother told me when she was younger she wasn't allowed to do so many things. she said the reason why she allows me do dream yard and do other things is so i can express myself, so i can become the person i want to be. >> my mom was in her early 20s when she first came to the u...

♪ >> my husband and i have chosen to support dream yard by create a four-year scholarship. we are honored and excited to present the first to charles pfrmt lord, dream yard scholarships. we'd like to invite up sony keith and leann torres. >> my mother told me when she was younger shz wasn't allowed to do so many things. she said the reason why she allows me do dream yard and other things is so i can express myself, so i can become the person i want to be. >> my mom was in her early 20s when she first came to the united states. we made the best out of her sacrifice. we're going to become prof...