Here We Go!

Our work creating performances for Findlay Market has begun!

Here's a note reflecting on the first workshop from Kira Neel, the out-of-this-world theater artist who is working with the students at Clark to create these performances:

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"We just completed our first workshop of "the market" project with the entire Junior class at Clark Montessori High School! I'm so excited. And full of ever-more respect for full time teachers and high school students. We played games with each other, got people working with people they don't usually work with, made images with our bodies of ideas and issues, and had tons of fun. One of my favorite parts of our first workshop was the moment where we all stand in a circle and share questions, any questions at all, with each other about the project. How do you get to Findlay Market? What if I'm the only one performing and really into and everyone else is acting lame and they don't do anything and then I look really lame? Can we dance? Is there going to be food there? What are we going to do? Are you going to come? What are you going to perform about? Are you nervous? What do I want to say? How will I make my performance interesting? What do I want to communicate to people in Cincinnati? Is anybody going to come?

To answer the last one . . . yeah!. . . who would want to miss this? 83 high school students taking over one of the dopest markets in Cincinnati with their original public art pieces? What do you have to do on a Saturday, on ANY day, that's more important than being a part of that?"
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What about you? If you had a chance to express something to a whole bunch of Cincinnatians from all over the city, what would you want to express?

Share your ideas as a comment!