The Hartford Stage

Ages 9-15

One-Act Play

August 1-12
9am-5pm
$550
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Young actors will hone their skills with training in the basics of acting and improvisation while working toward a production of the hilarious sci-fi spoof Attack of the Pom Pom Zombies.

Ages 5-8

Children’s Cast

(Please note: to be eligible for the Children’s Cast, students must have completed Kindergarten)
Session 2: July 18-29
9am-5pm
$550 per session
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$995 for both sessions
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Students will take classes in story theatre, creative movement, music, puppetry, and arts and crafts, and go on a weekly field trip. Each session ends in a mini-production that the cast creates based on favorite stories and characters.

Summer Bookends

Session 1: August 1-5
Session 2: August 8-12
9am-5pm
$300 per session
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$550 for both sessions
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Close out the summer with drama and fun! Students will explore literature from summer reading lists through acting, musical theatre, creative movement and arts and crafts.

Ages 3-5

Day Dreamers

(Please note: our Day Dreamers Program is for Pre K students only.)
Session 2: July 18-22
9am-12pm
$175 per session
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$300 for both sessions
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Our youngest artists will enjoy a half-day of creative movement, music, story theatre, and puppet play!

I asked if there were scholarships available.

Barack Obama Said…

I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. Watch the entire speech in the sidebar.

Michelle Obama Said…

Michelle Obama gave her last commencement address as first lady at City College of New York. She stated, “This is not who we are. That is not what this country stands for, no. No, here in America we don’t let our difference tell us apart — not here,” she said, as she bashed narrow-minded people who “tell us to be afraid of those who are different.” She continued, “They seem to view our diversity as a threat to be contained rather than as a resource to be tapped … They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate: As if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress.”

“All of you know for centuries this city has been the gateway to America for so many striving, hope-filled immigrants,” she said, adding that the school has long been a place where students “didn’t have to hide their last names or their accents.”  Watch the entire speech in the sidebar.

Bail Reform Dead for this Legislative Session

According to the Hartford Courant, in November 2015 Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called for an overhaul of the state’s bail system. “Many jurisdictions have begun to reconsider whether existing bail systems are fair and just since many started to think whether can you be denied bail, which eventually reduced the crime rate and it is time that we do the same in Connecticut,” Malloy wrote in a letter sent to the Connecticut Sentencing Commission, which reviews criminal justice policies and makes recommendations to lawmakers. “People who are not able to post the amount of bail required to get out of jail on such a low bond – typically just a few hundred dollars – are people who most likely have no job and no support network,” Malloy wrote. “A large proportion of these people are nonviolent, low-level offenders who would be able to get out of jail if they had a credit card, or a friend or family member who could loan them the small amount of money required to do so. Many are homeless, drug addicted, mentally ill and unemployed. They are also often veterans.” (Note “A School for Suicide” in the sidebar about 19 year old Kahlief Browder who had been held for 3 years without trial because he could not afford bail. He was charged, but never convicted, with stealing a backpack. He committed suicide on June 6, 2015.) However, the bill died in committee in June 2016. Read more here. 

The Widowmaker Repents

After decades of dysfunction, one church publicly confessed its mistreatment of former ministers.

Roving journalist Charles Kuralt once called Madison, Indiana, “the most beautiful river town in America.  For decades though, the beauty masked an ugly truth. One of Madison’s key congregations was rife with toxic church politics that hurt and expelled minister after minister. Four successive pastors had come and painfully left the congregation. The church earned a reputation—in their town and denomination—for backstabbing and hypocrisy. That’s hardly news. But unlike many similar stories, there’s more to this church’s tale.

For more, read here.  (I know this isn’t your church, but perhaps someone you know attends a church like this.) Thanks, Jane Fisler Hoffman, for this story.

KEEP CALM…

AND

CATCH UP!

Haven’t met your full pledge yet?  It’s Catch-Up Sunday- Every Sunday in June!

You can do it!