Arts Emerging

An In-Depth Arts Experience 

Each year, Syracuse Stage partners with local schools to give students a uniquely in-depth arts experience. Through a multi-arts cross-curricular lens, students explore themes and topics within our mainstage season. Teachers work hand-in-hand with our staff to design an integrated curriculum tailored to their particular goals. To find out how your class can get involved, please contact Lauren Unbekant at 315-443-1150 or lunbekan@syr.edu.

2012-13 Season
COMMON GROUND PROJECT
This season’s play Good People explores complex social questions about class, luck, and cultural identity. This year the Arts Emerging program will create a short documentary film exploring similar themes and commonalities between students of Nottingham, Fowler, Fayetteville-Manlius and the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central. The film will be shown at a screening May 22, 2013 at Syracuse Stage. Visiting artist Jeff Nelson a CBS affiliate news anchor will engage students and have them develop a successful journalistic style interview and discussion in each school. We will film this discussion and utilize student written questions that will be used as a common basis for exploring the issues of social expectation and common ground that exists for high school students of different backgrounds. In addition to participating in discussions and interviews, students will also partake in a film workshop and be given the opportunity to take home video camera equipment to generate additional content. 

2011-12 Season
URBAN MUSIC VIDEO PROJECT
This year we engaged Syracuse City High Schools with the musical Caroline, or Change and explored the powerful connection music has to a community and a nation.  Working with local musicians from the band Merit, students explored the impact of music on their own cultural identities and created their own original scores and music videos. 

2010-2011 Season
THE PERCEPTIONS PROJECT
In September of 2010, Syracuse Stage presented a special production of No Child by Nilaja Sun. This one woman play explored the struggles and celebrated the miracles of America's public schools.  Capitalizing on the theme of urban school community, Syracuse Stage brought an innovative, collaborative educational program to the Syracuse City school district.
Teaching artists worked with Syracuse City High School students from Nottingham and Fowler to create a cast of characters that represented their own school and created a piece entitled PERCEPTIONS.  

To see the 2010-11 ArtsEmerging Performance click here!

2009-2010 Season
THE FATHERS & SONS PROJECT
In the 2009-2010 Season, students in the Syracuse City School District will explore the family dynamic, specifically the relationships between fathers and sons, in the Syracuse Stage productions of Fences and The Price. Through a multi-arts and curricular lens, students will research, write, and engage in role play to explore how the patchwork of family history impacts who we are and the decisions we make.

2008-2009 Season
THE SECRET STORIES PROJECT
Nearly 1,800 students explored the untold stories that affect our lives. Using plays from Syracuse Stage's 2008-2009 season as a catalyst, students read, researched, wrote and performed their personal stories in order to learn about themselves and each other by uncovering the secret stories within. Select students created a visual art component: fused glass installations that were proudly displayed in the Sutton Pavilion at Syracuse Stage throughout the run of Crowns, May 15-June 7.

2007-2008 Season
THE AD-RAP-TATION PROJECT
In 2008, students in the Syracuse City School District explored identity, language and conflict resolution in the play The Bomb-itty of Errors. A select group of students at Nottingham High School explored identity through 2-D and 3-D graffiti art projects that were proudly displayed in the Coyne Lobby at Syracuse Stage throughout the run of The Bomb-itty of Errors.

Contact

Lauren Unbekant
Director of Educational Outreach
(315) 443-1150
lunbekan@syr.edu

Michelle Scully
Manager of Educational Outreach
(315) 442-7755
miscully@syr.edu