Contact:
919-542-0394
For Immediate
Release
Take
A Stand!
Performance
At Pollard Middle School
Chatham
County, NC - Take A Stand!,
an empowering performance written and performed by Pollard
Middle School 8th graders, will be presented Thursday, November
10th at 7 p.m. in the Pollard Middle School auditorium.
Admission is free. The general public is encouraged to attend the
performance and a discussion on the topic of bullying.
Chatham
County Arts Council is the recipient of a grant from the NC Arts
Council for this Arts-In-Education initiative. Teaching Artists from
Chatham County based EbzB Productions (www.ebzb.org)
were chosen to help Pollard Middle School students create a play.
This production is based on oral histories collected from citizens of
Chatham County. The local citizens were interviewed about their
personal experiences with bullies. They were also asked about their
experiences of standing up for others against bullies. Students
transcribed the interviews; edited the transcriptions; created a
script, visual presentation and publicity materials for the
production; rehearsed the play; and blogged about the experience. To
view the blog, visit: http://takeastandmbpollard.blogspot.com/
Students
will perform Take A Stand for their peers during the school day on
November 10th. Elizabeth Carriel, Michelle Rotante, and
Mary Clayton Liles, teachers at Pollard Middle School opened their
classrooms to EbzB Productions' teaching artists in order to
integrate the performing arts with the Language Arts curriculum. The
November 10th, 7:00 p.m. performance will offer this
unique production to the general public. Families who will have
students at Pollard Middle School during 2012 – 2013 are encouraged
to attend.
For more
information, please contact Molly Matlock at ChathamArts:
919-542-0394.
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