The Public Park play festival!
Public Parks Theme in Next MAP Festival of Plays by Young People
(Providence, RI) The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is proud to present it’s next production: “This Land is Our Land: the public park plays” April 17-19, 2015. Performances will take place at 7pm on Friday and Saturday, and 2pm on Sunday, in the Media and Arts Center at the Met School at 325 Public St. in Providence. After Sunday’s production, there will be an encore performance of The MAP’s last production, “Open for Business: the Entrepreneurship Play” a one-act written collaboratively by 5th grade playwrights about an imagined resource center for the homeless in Olneyville.
The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is a non-profit organization that unites children living in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood with local theater professionals to create original plays together. The Manton Avenue Project’s mission is to nurture the unique potential of kids living in Olneyville by unleashing their creative voices. Each of MAP’s out-of-school time programs is focused on playwriting education, mentorship, and bringing kids’ voices to the stage.
“This Land Is Our land” is a culminating festival of short plays written by young people in our program for first time playwrights, ten third-graders at William D’Abate Elementary School. For this program, The Manton Avenue Project partnered with the Roger Williams National Memorial, and will present the plays throughout the summer downtown at the memorial park.
“This production will be a culmination of an enriching afterschool class, where we’ve discussed the importance of public parks in our lives – what we do in parks with our families and friends, and how parks create community, memorialize and recognize history, and create better futures for our neighborhoods,” says Executive/Artistic Director Meg Sullivan. “Our goal is to bring kids’ voices to the public stage, valuing their creative voices, and through our ongoing and tuition-free playwriting programs, helping them reach their full potential as tomorrow’s creative thinkers and community leaders.”
This program is supported by the National Park Foundation. The Manton Avenue Project’s 2014-15 season and programs, are also supported by The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, a Citizens Bank Growing Communities grant, a Senate Legislative Grant from the State of Rhode Island, a grant from the Katherine Baker Charitable Trust, The United Way of RI, as well as many other individual and corporate donors.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can at the door.
For reservations, call (401) 331-7007 or email: Info@mantonavenueproject.org. For more information about MAP, go to www.mantonavenueproject.org.