First Acts: Nothing About Us & Overdrive
Reeves Ave, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
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-73.81575709999998
Description
Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College is delighted to welcome back for its sixth season the “First Acts: New Plays in Development series”, which supports theater artists who are in the early stages of developing new performance pieces.
First Acts, which is a project of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at the exceptionally diverse Queens College, amplifies the voices of playwrights who are writing from minority or immigrant perspectives, points-of-view that are not often heard in mainstream theater. By offering financial and technical resources for new play development, this program helps playwrights work through the question “what does my play need now?” First Acts supports the Queens College campus and New York City theatre community by providing relevant artistic programming and allowing for interdisciplinary conversations and interactions on a wide range of topics. It also offers its audiences the rare opportunity to connect directly with art makers and to be active participants in their processes.
NOTHING ABOUT US
NOTHING ABOUT US is a rigorous, passionate and hilarious exploration of educational segregation written and performed by those most affected and least consulted: NYC Public High School students. What does separate but equal mean to us today? Transformation, empathy, and youth voice drive the conversation in this thirty-minute touring play by Epic NEXT. “Nothing about us without us is for us.”
OVERDRIVE
How many jobs demand that employees come up with the right answer on the spot, from memory, while the clock is ticking? How often are we forbidden to ask coworkers for help? How common is it for working professionals to be given a secret pencil-and-paper exam? The student researchers/writers/performers of Epic NEXT interviewed a diverse group of education stakeholders about the role of Standardized Assessments in Public Schools. Their findings will surprise you. OVERDRIVE is a twenty-five minute touring play that powerfully poses the question: Do we truly measure what we value and value what we measure?
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Start:
2018-11-13T16:45:00-05:00
End:
2018-11-13T17:55:00-05:00
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Performances
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