Education Projects
Each year Victoria Theatre Association's Education and Outreach team offers in-depth education projects at no charge to participating students and teachers. Each project is built around a particular performance and theme. Past projects, for example, have focused on the Holocaust or have been created around productions such as Wicked, Hairspray, Freedom Train, Ragtime, and The Color Purple. A typical project begins with hands-on theatre workshops in the classroom followed by a critical writing or art project that explores key themes of the work in question (especially its historical context) and connects those themes to the present day, culminating in students’ attendance at the performance.
This year's projects are:
- Confronting Cyber Bullying in association with the 2010-2011 Physicians for Kids Discovery Series presentation of Wired.
- Until We Find Our Place in association with the 2010-2011 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series presentation of Disney's The Lion King.
Last year's projects included:
- Hocus Focus in association with the 2009-2010 Young at Heart presentation of The Spencers' Theatre of Illusion.
- Changed for Good in association with the Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series presentation of the musical Wicked.
- The Beat of a Different Drum in association with the 2009-2010 presentations of San Jose Taiko.
As an organization, Victoria Theatre Association will gain a greater understanding of the community which we serve as well as create new and strengthen existing partnerships within the Dayton area community. Our hope is that this type of project can serve as a model for further development of this demographic that is in such need of positive role models, educational opportunities and powerful exposure to the arts.
For more information, please contact Education and Outreach Manager David Brush at david.brush@victoriatheatre.com.
