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Original Plays Created by 100+ Young Artists at the Voices of Now Festival
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presented the Voices of Now Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 May and on Saturday 17 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv. Use Twitter hashtag #howlround to comment and share.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater hosts the Voices of Now Festival, a four-day event featuring original works of theatre written and performed by nine different youth ensembles from the internationally renowned Community Engagement program. The festival brings together more than 100 artists, ages 11-24, from D.C., Maryland and Virginia who have been working with professional theater artists from Arena Stage for the past year to devise original one-act plays. The 2014 ensembles come together May 14-17, 2014 to perform and discuss their work in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center.
The following performances will be livestreamed on HowlRound TV. Use the Twitter hashtag #howlround to participate in real-time discussion:
Friday 16 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT
Boxed In by the Glasgow Middle School Ensemble
Mirror Image by the Key Middle School Ensemble
Cover Girl by the Jefferson Middle School Ensemble
Saturday 17 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT
Cause and Effect by the Robinson Secondary School Ensemble
Common Denominator by the Mead Ensemble
Free for All by the Mentor Ensemble
Voices of Now (VON) is a year-long, internationally recognized drama program designed by Arena Stage’s Director of Education Ashley Forman. Currently in its eleventh year, Voices of Now utilizes creative writing, improvisation, collaboration, movement, and performance to devise autobiographical theatre pieces with ensembles made up of middle school, high school, and adult artists. Each ensemble’s play poses challenging social questions relevant to the artists’ communities and investigates those questions by recounting the artists’ personal stories. The VON curriculum has successfully created plays with middle school, high school, and adult community groups and is available for schools and community groups throughout the D.C. metro area. In addition to performing at Arena Stage, ensembles perform throughout their own communities. Past ensembles have performed at the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Intersections Festival, Imagination Stage, the American Alliance for Theater Educators’ National Conference, The Association of Theater in Higher Education Conference, the 2013 International AIDS Conference and the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage.
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