“Serious arts education will help them–to understand civilization… to develop creativity, to learn the tools of communication…and to make wiser choices among the products of the arts.”
Alexandra Holtzman’s blog Artistic Circuit is focused on how theatre affects specific communities. I recently read a post where she muses on how arts-ed can and should be used with the community of at risk teenagers. She talks about one company in England, The Geese Theatre Company, who use masks in their work with youth in prisons and on probation. Click here to read.
There’s a group out of California called The Usual Suspects that works with similar youth. They recently initiated a playwriting program, which I think is absoultely – to use the word in the archaic sense – awesome. This is where theatre changes lives.
