All in Favor: the voting plays — October 5th-7th, 2012 Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 3pm At Met Public in the Media and Arts Center Reservations at: 401-331-7007 Design by Megumi Koyama Click here to check out our blog post about this program and our process. All in Favor: the voting […]

Thank you to all who came out to support our MAP kids’ plays ALL IN FAVOR: the voting plays. What a remarkable weekend! And special thanks to the following artists who presented us with these awesome drawings of their favorite voting stories! These four represented our favorite drawings and each artist wins a free MAP […]

Our Wild Card! program classes started this year with a series of simple questions that I asked the kids: “Who has the right to vote in our country, and who doesn’t? Is this fair? Why? Or why not?” The responses to my questions included: “non-citizens”, “animals”, “kids”, and “prisoners”. When asked whether it was fair […]

MY BLUE PLANET from our DIALOGUE program the ocean plays August 4 and 5, 3pm and 7pm @95 Empire Poster designed by Katherine Gill   ………………………………………………………………………… BLAZING SADDLES 2012 – our annual Gala: June 4th! a honky-tonk fest of wild west proportions 6-9pm at Providence College, Smith Center for the Arts Poster designed by Emily […]

Thank you, Susie and Piper, for sharing these amazing drawings (below) with us at our last show, My Blue Planet:the ocean plays. You are the winners of our Ocean Story contest – and you’ll each get a complimentary MAP button at our next show – All in Favor:the voting plays – September 28-30th! See you […]

Camp Ogontz Log By Jackie McCoy, MAP’s Summer Intern Day 1- July 22, 2012: We all met at the William D’Abate Memorial Elementary School, drove up in 3 cars, and arrived at Camp Ogontz, in Lyman, NH at 4:20pm.  When we arrived we unpacked and settled into our cabins.  The staff stayed in closed in […]

KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE from our TAG TEAM program January 27-29, 2012 Friday 7pm, Saturday 3pm & 7pm, Sunday 3pm The Media and Arts Center at Met Public 325 Public Street, Providence, RI Tickets are FREE but reservations are encouraged! Please call 401-331-7007 ………………………………………………………………………….

Special thanks to Jen Rudolph from The Roger Williams Zoo for coming to our Playmaking class last week to teach us all about endangered species. We learned about why certain animals become endangered, or even extinct, and what we can do to prevent it. We learned about habitat destruction and missing links in the food […]

WELL I NEVER SAW THAT COMING from our PLAY-IT-AGAIN program The surprise ending plays! November 18-20, 2011 (Friday @ 7pm, Saturday @ 3pm & 7pm, Sunday @ 3pm) Performances at the Met School in the Media and Arts Center 325 Public St. Providence, RI Tickets are free but reservations are encouraged. Please Call: 401-331-7007

This week’s Tag Team class was incredible. We discussed the theme for our play  – Keeping the Dream Alive: Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream for a better world – and we started to think about how to create a play inspired by Dr. King. We started with an overview of Dr. King’s words […]