Restoring Ideals: Attic Youth

By providing a safe and supportive community, The Attic Youth Center promotes the acceptance of LGBTQ youth in society. The Attic provides for this community through innovative and engaging workshops and trainings such as mental health counseling, HIV prevention services, and creative action groups that offer learning sessions in everything from silk screening to cooking. All of the Attic's work is designed to create a sense of community and support that shelters these amazing teenagers from prejudice, oppression, and isolation while promoting the acceptance of LGBTQ youth in society.

Funded by The Barra Foundation, Restoring Ideals began as a question raised byTemple Contemporary's Advisory Council that addressed Philadelphia's evolving relationship to its founding ideals of tolerance, equality, and independence. Inspired by this question, Temple Contemporary (the gallery at Tyler School of Art) and a consortium of partners including the Conservation Center of Art and Historic Artifacts and WHYY, responded by designing the Restoring Ideals project. It is our hope to open a dialog that refers to the honorable declarations of the past, as well as connecting these ideals to the needs of Philadelphia's living communities and the organizations that serve them.

Directors: Steph Irwin and Ian Rose
Producer: Temple Contemporary
Editor: Ross Brubeck