Program areas at Civic Ensemble
Community-based play. We worked through a research and development phase, collaborating with a playwright and community members to create an original play exploring themes of health and healing in our community.
In our theatre-in-education program, we partner with schools, teachers, and students to support educational goals through theatre-based activities. This fiscal year we launched the youth forum theatre troupe, an out of school theatre program for youth in grades 7-12 in tompkins county.
The reentry theatre program brings together people who have been incarcerated at some point in their lives to write plays and present them to the community. Participants in this program gain invaluable hard skills like writing, computer literacy, and theatre skills, as well as soft skills like communication, patience, and teamwork. The purpose of this program is twofold: to provide a structure for personal growth for people re-entering the community after incarceration, and to connect those re-entering with the larger community through the performances of their plays. In this time period, conducted weekly sessions of the reentry theatre program, as well as produced the play delia divided, created in this program.
Other programs include general program, cbp, Civic acts, p-tech, coalition program, and special projects class.