Social Justice Theater
September 13, 2019-June 5, 2020
Concluding production on June 5; time to be announced
Appropriate for mature, self-motivated and dedicated high school aged/ability students
Fridays; 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Total Cost: $550
Non-refundable deposit: $50 applied to total cost
Location: ELA Room of Chance Academy (1600 Taylor St NE, Washington, DC 20017)
Instructor: Crystal Adair
Class Description:
Does your child LOVE theater? Do they know that theater can change the world? Led by dynamic storyteller, playwright, and director Crystal M. Adair, this intensive, full year course teaches students empathy, advocacy, and activism through the performing arts. In addition to learning acting skills, public speaking skills, and confidence, students will learn how to dissect the social constructs, cultural contexts, and belief systems that shape characterizations in dramatic works. Importantly, participants will explore how these characterizations contribute meaningfully to social change in our communities and our world.
Concurrent with this instruction, students will prepare rigorously for the debut presentation of Adair’s latest social justice stage play. This preparation will include memorizing multiple pages of dialogue, attending mandatory rehearsals each session, and being wholly invested throughout the artistic process.
Final show will be held at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier, MD on June 5, 2020.
Please note this is a class for interested, mature, self-motivated, and dedicated students. This is an excellent opportunity for local homeschool families!
Concluding production on June 5; time to be announced
Appropriate for mature, self-motivated and dedicated high school aged/ability students
Fridays; 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Total Cost: $550
Non-refundable deposit: $50 applied to total cost
Location: ELA Room of Chance Academy (1600 Taylor St NE, Washington, DC 20017)
Instructor: Crystal Adair
Class Description:
Does your child LOVE theater? Do they know that theater can change the world? Led by dynamic storyteller, playwright, and director Crystal M. Adair, this intensive, full year course teaches students empathy, advocacy, and activism through the performing arts. In addition to learning acting skills, public speaking skills, and confidence, students will learn how to dissect the social constructs, cultural contexts, and belief systems that shape characterizations in dramatic works. Importantly, participants will explore how these characterizations contribute meaningfully to social change in our communities and our world.
Concurrent with this instruction, students will prepare rigorously for the debut presentation of Adair’s latest social justice stage play. This preparation will include memorizing multiple pages of dialogue, attending mandatory rehearsals each session, and being wholly invested throughout the artistic process.
Final show will be held at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier, MD on June 5, 2020.
Please note this is a class for interested, mature, self-motivated, and dedicated students. This is an excellent opportunity for local homeschool families!
Instructor Bio:
Crystal M. Adair is an author, playwright, and director who has taught English, Public Speaking, and Creative & Performing Arts for nearly 20 years. As a native Washingtonian, issues concerning advocacy, social justice, and marginalized communities have long tugged at Crystal's heartstrings. Throughout high school, she served as a "Posse Member" on Black Entertainment Television's "Teen Summit", a popular 90's talk show where African-American youth discussed issues affecting and plaguing our communities.
Crystal subsequently graduated summa cum laude from Clark Atlanta University with a degree in Mass Media Arts (Radio-TV-Film). While there, she co-anchored the university's first half-hour news program that aired throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. But it would be the classroom and not the newsroom that ultimately won Crystal's devotion.
From DC to Oakland to Baltimore to schools throughout Prince George's county, Crystal has cultivated thousands of students as successful writers, poets, orators, and performing artists. Further, she has written and/or directed more than 40 stage productions and student film projects, including a stirring and powerful tribute to Trayvon Martin that was attended by his mother and civil rights activist, Sybrina Fulton, and also by civil rights attorney, Benjamin Crump.
Wholeheartedly committed to her craft and to arts education, Crystal teaches children to be voices for the voiceless--to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. As this "lover of words" often says, "This is all so much bigger than any of us. It is our responsibility to use our gifts to leave this world a better place than how we found it."
Crystal M. Adair is an author, playwright, and director who has taught English, Public Speaking, and Creative & Performing Arts for nearly 20 years. As a native Washingtonian, issues concerning advocacy, social justice, and marginalized communities have long tugged at Crystal's heartstrings. Throughout high school, she served as a "Posse Member" on Black Entertainment Television's "Teen Summit", a popular 90's talk show where African-American youth discussed issues affecting and plaguing our communities.
Crystal subsequently graduated summa cum laude from Clark Atlanta University with a degree in Mass Media Arts (Radio-TV-Film). While there, she co-anchored the university's first half-hour news program that aired throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. But it would be the classroom and not the newsroom that ultimately won Crystal's devotion.
From DC to Oakland to Baltimore to schools throughout Prince George's county, Crystal has cultivated thousands of students as successful writers, poets, orators, and performing artists. Further, she has written and/or directed more than 40 stage productions and student film projects, including a stirring and powerful tribute to Trayvon Martin that was attended by his mother and civil rights activist, Sybrina Fulton, and also by civil rights attorney, Benjamin Crump.
Wholeheartedly committed to her craft and to arts education, Crystal teaches children to be voices for the voiceless--to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. As this "lover of words" often says, "This is all so much bigger than any of us. It is our responsibility to use our gifts to leave this world a better place than how we found it."