Each year, Victoria Theatre Association’s Education & Engagement team offers one or more in-depth education projects at no charge to participating students and teachers. Each project is built around a particular performance and theme and creates community engagement with the arts. Past projects, for example, have focused on the Holocaust, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, student leadership, diversity and freedom, immigration, and cyberbullying or have been created around productions such as Wicked, The Color Purple, and Disney’s The Lion King.
A typical project begins with hands-on workshops in the classroom followed by a critical writing or art project that explores key themes of the work in question and connects those themes to the students’ learning and lives. The project culminates with students’ attendance at the performance.
This year’s project, Footprints: How to Make Your Life Greener, is in association with our PNC Family Series production of THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS LIVE!
Footprints was a three-month project through which students from area schools have been learning ways to take an active role in improving our conservation efforts. Through the project, the students learned how to effectively reduce, reuse and recycle with Montgomery County Solid Waste District and how to create a sculpture with recycled materials with K12 Gallery.
Each classroom created a life-size sculpture of recycled materials based on the Footprints theme. Projects were judged on the creativity and use of recycled materials and three top prizes were award.
Enjoy the Footprints project throughout the Victoria Theatre during the PNC Family presentation of THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS LIVE! March 24 and 25, 2012.
Performance Sponsor:
Vectren Corporation
Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle:
Dayton Rotary Club Foundation
Kroger Food Stores
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For more information, please contact Education & Engagement Coordinator Mindy Wallace.
