In partnership with over 40 schools and community organizations, ETC brings theatre and artists directly into local classrooms. Students don't watch from the audience: they write dialogue, paint sets, analyze and create characters. Young children work closely with resident teaching artists to write, produce, or perform an original musical, while older students create and star in a film or experience a touring Shakespeare production in their own schools. Using theatre techniques, an ESOL program builds vocabulary, fluency, and public speaking among English language learners while Devising Hope encourages adults to share their stories of racism, homelessness, and unemployment in community performances. Seniors engage through the Creative Age program by performing scenes and writing monologues about their lives. At its core, ETC weaves the arts into everyday experience and makes collaboration, confidence, creativity, and community come to life.
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