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Peter Pan - 39 Steps - Pride & Prejudice - Caroline, or Change
Touring Productions into the Schools
Oliver Button is a Sissy, Reaching Out, My Life=Art - PCPA in the Schools
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OUTREACH PHILOSOPHY AND MISSION
I. Philosophy
There is a fundamental educational imperative involved in bringing professional-level arts into the schools. All of the arts, including the performing arts, are natural and even essential means for students to gather and process information. For some students, the primary “voices” for communication lie in the aural, kinesthetic or visual worlds. In expressing the creative power of their minds through the arts, students come to understand and value their own capacities and uniqueness and appreciate and become sensitive to the creative expression of others.
Human intelligence and creativity are manifest in many ways, and the experience of students needs to be expansive rather than limited if all of their capacities are to grow. The loss of arts and arts exposure in schools threatens to reduce the effectiveness of education in general. The loss of the arts in the schools also endangers the future of our culture. Comprehending works of art at a deep and significant level helps students see these works as part of the body of knowledge that defines the culture. They become aware that the arts cut across cultural boundaries to provide mutual understanding, appreciation and respect. Without exposure to the arts, a culturally illiterate generation comes forward that knows little of the cultural environment in which it lives, this generation will lack its own artists to speak for it.
II. Mission
PCPA Theaterfest at Allan Hancock College, as a regional cultural resource and educational institution, has an essential interest in quality education and a high level of cultural literacy in the community. In order to address these interests, PCPA Theaterfest began a program of introducing school-age children to the performing arts through the Outreach Tour.
The mission of the Outreach Tour is to bring the experience of live theatre at the professional level to schools through onsite performances and workshops which are literature-based, age specific and which explore themes of social and cultural relevance to the community.
PCPA Theaterfest has defined three equal priorities for our work: plays we offer to the community on the stages in Santa Maria and Solvang, the Conservatory Training programs and Outreach. Programs, Conservatory and Outreach exist as equal priorities in every area of production and development.
Mark Booher - Artistic Director/Associate Dean
Leo Cortez - Director of Education and Outreach
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