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Performance as Education

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Performance As Education 

Students in Central Washington (Mabton, Warden, and Pateros) participate in a unique Washington State University outreach program that combines writing, performance, and theater to help them prepare for college. Founded by John Fraire, WSU’s vice president for student affairs and enrollment, Performance as Education, uses theatre and performance as a springboard to increasing the college attendance and retention rates of Latino and other underserved high school students in the rural communities of Central Washington. The students are brought together with a team of professionals – theatre personnel, educators, counselors – and together, the students and the professionals, produce professional, top quality, original theatre for the state.

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8/5/2011
Las Memorias, 2011 is a college readiness program that uses theatre, performance and writing to help prepare high school students from Warden, Mabton, and Pateros, WA. Las Memorias uses the ... [more]
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8/25/2011
Play written by high schoolers is coming to CBC on Friday. Jacques Vin Lunen, Herald Staff Writer   The stage manager's voice echoed through the dark theater during rehearsals last week. He sounded ... [more]
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8/18/2011
MABTON - Mabton students performing in Las Memorias 2011 are showing their hopes for the future through a 45-minute production free to the public.   The show is part of WSU's ... [more]
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8/18/2011
Warden High School Students help write play   MOSES LAKE - "Last Memorias 2011," a live performance featuring high school students from Warden, Mabton, and Pateros high schools, makes two stops at ... [more]
8/11/2011
PULLMAN, Wash. - Las Memorias 2011, an original production inspired by the life stories of 21 high school students from central Washington, isn’t about the past. It’s about the future. ... [more]
 

SAVE the DATES, 2012

Jones Theater, Daggy Hall, WSU
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Allied Arts Center, Yakima, WA
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Wallenstein Theater, Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake, WA
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Click here to add this event you your outlook calendarThursday, September 13, 11:00am (for Warden HS and public)
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Performance Arts Center of Wenatchee at the Stanley Civic Center
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Seattle, WA
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Place: TBD

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