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In winter 2005, TAYPE
partnered with the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School, as a ten-week after-school program, meeting for one 2-hour workshop. HMI’s POP Arts Program is, designed
to foster peer-to-peer leadership skills for selected HMI client interns. Through
dance, music, and theatre satellites, POP Arts participants work together to
create an original HIV-prevention piece to perform for other LGBTQ youth. TAYPE
workshops were designed to facilitate the theatre component of POP Arts through helpful and inventive theatre exercises, games and skills-building, as well as through visits and group exercises with local working
theatre artists (writers, actors, choreographers). The program culminated in a final POP Arts production, Just To Be Safe, shown at HMI, Theatre Row, and Wings Theater. The
TAYPE participants performed original theatre pieces that they had crafted throughout the course of the program. Theatre Askew would like to thank The Hetrick-Martin Institute
and the POP Arts Program for their partnership. We look forward to building on this incredible start.
In the second half
of 2005, TAYPE has partnered with viBe Theatre Experience, to produce Thirsty, a solo piece written and performed by Genna Miller, a gifted
18-year-old who promises to be an exciting new voice in the theatre. Thirsty
will be performed in 2006. Check this website for more information about the
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