This event is free! 7:00pm to 8:30pm on Monday March 10th.
Last month we hosted our Visions and Voices playwriting students from Cleveland High School in our lobby for our first ever V&V playwrights’ slam. It rocked. The students brought along friends and family, some PCS staff attended, the cafe was open, and the lobby was alive with new work being read out loud. This Monday we are doing it again, this time with our students from Wilson High. Hope you come and join us.
Here are some thoughts from two Cleveland students I mentored last month.
“Visions and Voices was something I was told about frequently by my super-thespian senior friends. So not only was I looking forward to it, but I had some pretty high expectations. Looking back, the entire experience brutally surpassed those expections. Being able to write freely and recieve enough friendly critique to make that writing better helped me learn that it doesn’t matter if it sucks, it’s just a draft, life goes on, and nothing is ever, ever perfectly complete. This in general opened the possibilty of enjoying my work, and the process it took to get there. Not to mention I got an excuse to sit at a computer every night and let delightful words escape from my fingers. This is some good shit you got going here, keep it up. I am pleased in an extremely superb fashion that I get to go through this twice more. Thank you.” - Ally Yancey
“Visions and Voices has been a huge highlight of my school year. I’ve learned how to find inspiration anywhere, got a grip on how to at least look professional, found a writing style to call my own and had the pleasure of seeing my work acted out for an audience. For the V&V Playwright’s Slam our Drama class got to hold up on couches and stools together, sipping tea and listening to each other’s favorite pieces from the class. Hearing your work from the point of view of the audience… what an amazing feeling. The air of acceptance and encouragement in the room was unmistakable, and it wiped away any embarrassment or stage fright. Listening to my friend’s finished work, after seeing the same pieces in every stage of growth is, again, simply a great feeling. I know we’ve all gathered something from V&V, and I can’t wait to do it again next year. I’m just jealous of the Sophomores in my class: they get to do it three times.” - Ivy Knight
Read More about Visions and Voices here.
Find out more about PCS’ programs for teens here.
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