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	<description>A performing arts company fostering youth leadership through the arts</description>
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		<title>Youth and Police</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bullying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year is our third mini-grant awarded by YDTRC (The Consultation Center) around building positive relations between youth and police . Our youth have had a lot exposure with police officers over the years because so many of the stories we tell have police officers in them. By doing a play, film or project with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Leadership and the Youth&#8217;s Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started directing plays with youths in 1993, I always gave them the opportunity to comment on the characters, the dialogue and how these characters delivered the lines.  At first, their responses were lukewarm, but after awhile, they felt safer to respond.  As I took their opinions seriously and used them in the scripts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Me-An Adaptation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former student, Kenni Nwajagu, wrote this script and made a movie before his untimely death from cancer.  We decided to carry on his legacy by adapting it to a stageplay.  We partnered with the Bridgeport Housing Authority to recruit youths from Trumbull Gardens and be part of this project.  We casted in November 2011 and started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying To Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2011, we partnered with the McGivney Community Center and the Bridgeport Housing Authority to work on a youth forum project.  20 youths participated for 5 months.  The youths talked passionately about bullying, teen pregnancy, racism and baggy pants and so they wrote this play. During class, the kids developed situations around those topics and acted them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Youth Forum We&#8217;ve been doing a youth forum for the last three years based on the following model:  kids talking to kids about important topics revolving around a play.  The youths have been firm with us (the adults) that they do not want adult experts talking to them about some topic.  They said, &#8220;we will tune [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgeport to Broadway. &#160; 35 of us left Bridgeport Saturday morning at 7:15 a.m.We took in shopping at Times Square early in the morning when the crowds weren&#8217;t bad. Some of us even ate pizza. By 10:00 a.m. we loaded into one of the finest studios in NYC for a master Broadway workshop. We warmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Soap Opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish Soap Opera The Spanish Soap Opera was created in a car by two students on the way home from class one night. They suggested we do some improv around it the next day in class. It turned out to be a play. The material just kept coming in from the kids. We developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Cinders Goes to Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donnasue</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinderella]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Modern Day Fairy Tale. Johnny Cinders is an adaptation of Cinderella set in Hollywood.  Johnny is a janitor for I.M.E. casting agency.  He gets a chance to get the role of a lifetime co-starring with Jennifer Charming.  But he has no means until three fairy god mothers, Nicki Menage, Selena Gomez, and Rihanna give him the moves, [...]]]></description>
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