COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC

GLOBAL ARTS CORPS (GAC) USES THEATER AND STORYTELLING AS A PROCESS TO DEVELOP GROUP TRUST AND BELONGING, AND NOW WITH A FOCUS ON CHILDREN, TO SUPPORT THEM CREATING THEIR OWN PRODUCTIONS AND CONNECT THEM ACROSS POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC, AND RACIAL DIVIDES USING THEIR STORIES AS A NEW STARTING POINT FOR COMMUNICATION. IN 2024, THIS PROJECT CONTINUED, IN ISNIQ, KOSOVO AS WELL AS WIND RIVER RESERVATION IN WYOMING USA. WORKING WITH KIDS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPING RADIO STORIES AS ENSEMBLES. OVER THREE PHASES OF SEVERAL WEEKS EACH, MORE THAN 70 KIDS HAVE BEEN COMING TOGETHER AS A WHOLE AND IN SMALLER GROUPS TO BEGIN THE MESSY PROCESS OF COLLECTIVE STORY CREATION. EXPERIMENTING IN SOUND EFFECTS, MUSIC, JUGGLING, AND MORE, THESE KIDS HAVE BEGUN TO STRUCTURE STORIES THAT ARE BOTH SEEPED IN THEIR HISTORY AND ALSO INFORMED AND HELD IN THE PRESENT MOMENT OF THEIR REALITY. AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE BEGUN A PARALLEL PROCESS AT THE WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION IN WYOMING AND HAVE BEGUN TO