Brooklyn Educator Uses Faith & The Arts To Transform The Hearts And Futures Of Inner-city Youth

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun 25, 2007 -
Atlanta GA, June 25, 2007 -- Bridgette Chapman is on a mission.  As the Founder/CEO-Executive Artistic Director of Revelation Performing Arts Studio – (RPAS), her mission is to bring the arts to inner-city youth, instill in them values, and surround them with love and inspiration all the while providing an enlightening experience that will transform their hearts and their futures in the process.  

Her Brooklyn based, Revelation Performing Arts Studio, is built on the foundation of biblical principals and is focused on developing artistic talent, strengthening academics and building character, in a faith centered atmosphere that allows the youthful spirit to flourish.  

Revelation Performing Arts Studio is 501[C] 3 non-profit youth development performing arts organization.  RPAS has partnered with the Lincoln Center Institute and, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to bring their ground breaking, S.T.E. P. – Shared Theatre Education Program into middle schools.  Brooklyn’s Halsey Middle School is currently the first school in Brooklyn to offer the program in house with a fulltime RPAS staff member on site daily.

The Shared Theatre Education Program is just one of the many programs offered by RPAS.   The studio also offers, Early Childhood Arts and Literacy targeting emergent learners ages 3-6; RPAS Student Performance Repertoire; RPAS Performing Arts Company; Artist-In-Residency and; The Community Arts Studio - (RPAS’s State of the Arts Brooklyn facility offering 48 weeks of classes in all disciplines of dance, adult exercise, music, theatre and voice.)

“At Revelation Performing Arts, we believe the key to our success is the organization’s vision of using the “pure” art forms of dance, music, theatre, and visual art to “transform hearts” into the spirits of staff members in order for them to ignite the passion for change in the hearts of those we serve,” states Chapman.  “Our mission is to educate and uplift communities through the arts by purposely building character through the transformation of hearts; one child, youth and/or adult at a time.  We believe that once we can tranform the heart, we will “transform the future.”

Revelation Performing Arts Studio will be holding their year end recital. “War Cry”  this upcoming Saturday June 30th at the Long Island University -Brooklyn Campus Kumble Theatre for the Performing Arts.  To purchase tickets for “War Cry” please visit www.tix.com or call the Kumble Theatre at (718) 488-1624.




About Revelation Performing Arts.

Revelation Performing Arts Studio Inc. also known as RPAS, has been providing quality performing arts programs for inner-city children since 1999.  

At RPAS, the mission is to educate and uplift communities through the arts by purposely building character through the transformation of hearts; one child, youth and/or adult at a time.  We believe that once we can tranform the heart, we will “transform the future.”

RPAS’s  programs integrate the National Standards for the Arts with New York State’s English Language Art Standards in order to attain optimum students’ achievement outcomes.

Since RPAS’s inception 85% of our students improved in their overall academic subject areas, performed in level 3 and level 4 on standardized test, maintained 80% attendance, and 95% performed in original mini and major productions; in addition to being accepted in specialized high schools, parochial schools and inducted into a national honor society.


For more information on Revelation Performing Arts, please visit their website at
http://www.myspace.com/RevelationPerformingArtStudio