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.

Current Season

In September of 2010, Syracuse Stage will present a special production of No Child by Nilaja Sun. This one woman play explores the struggles and celebrates the miracles of America's public schools.  Capitalizing on the theme of urban school community, Syracuse Stage along with the SU Drama department will offer an innovative, collaborative educational program with the Syracuse City school district in mind.

Syracuse Stage's Education Department will work with Syracuse City High School students to create a cast of characters that represent their own school. Casts will include teachers, administrators, students and staff. With guidance from a teaching artist, high school students will create the dialogue for their cast, stage the pieces, and perform them at a Syracuse Stage community event.

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 roleplay 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 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