Playhouse Artist In Schools Program becomes an Artists In Shelter Program

Arcata PlayhousePress release from the Arcata Playhouse:

 

For eight years the Arcata Playhouse has brought art to thousands of Humboldt County children as a part of the California Arts Council’s Artists in Schools grant program. The Playhouse program offers 24 weeks of hands-on workshops in shadow puppetry, mask making, mask performance, and clown cabaret to local participating schools. Artists visit classrooms weekly and create theater pieces that culminate with live performances all of which are devised and produced by the students for the school community. This year Blue Lake Elementary, Fieldbrook Elementary, Cutten Elementary, Pacific Union Elementary and Redwood Coast Montessori all hosted Playhouse teaching artists workshops.

As school closures began in May, the Playhouse Artists in Schools project had to pivot. The Arcata Playhouse Education Director, Sarah McKinney, quickly shifted programming to the virtual world and had the team of teaching artists begin creating video curriculum for their students. The Artists In Schools Program has now become an Artists in Shelter Program through the Playhouse Youtube Channel that features video classes in mask movement, mime, and shadow puppetry.

Arcata Playhouse, 1251 9th St. Arcata, www.arcataplayhouse.org, (707) 822-1575

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3 years ago

Stay home. Virtual world. Government assistance. Fear.

“Confront them with annihilation, and they will than survive, plunge them into a deadly situation and they will than live. When people fall into danger,they are then able to strive for victory.”

We, as Americans have become weak, not only physically, but more so mentally. Self reliance is freedom and prosperity. Freedom and education is the enemy of any government entity. You are being stupefied…. not educated.