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CCUSD Front and Center Theatre Collaborative The Front and Center Theater Collaborative was formed to sustain and increase theatre education in the Culver City Unified School District

The Front and Center Theatre Collaborative has offered a variety of assemblies, residencies, workshops, professional development and opportunities to experience professional performances for all elementary and secondary students as well as teachers throughout the district. In 2009 the Culver City Unified School District embarked on an unprecedented theatre collaborative with professional theatre arts organizations, plus stakeholders from the CCUSD learning community including district and school leadership, parents, and funders. Carl Weintraub once called the collaboration a perfect storm. With school budgets globally being less able to support curriculum that lies outside the bounds of basic 3 R curriculum, it is the arts community itself that has stepped up to the task of assuring that our children get the supplemental knowledge that is so crucial to their formation as complete individuals. The idea is not to make actors out of all these kids but to broaden their educational base and offer them different ways of processing the learning that they are getting in the rest of the curriculum. The collaborative includes stakeholders from the Culver City Unified School District’s learning community, The Actors’ Gang, Center Theatre Group, We Tell Stories, Young Storytellers Foundation, 24th Street Theatre, The Culver City Education Foundation, the City of Culver City and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Additional support is provided by the Carol and James Collins Foundation, Playa Vista, The Drown Foundation, Fineshriber Family Foundation and Culver City PTA/Booster Clubs.

24/08/2019

Last chance to see Toy Story Tempest at The Actors' Gang Theater this weekend. You won’t regret it.

11/03/2019

"FIND YOUR LIGHT features 31 participants from our Saturday Class for Teens and our Middle School Afterschool Program alongside 4 of The Actors’ Gang Education Department’s teaching artists.

In this original piece of theater, we look to a phone APP where we receive validation, inspiration, and companionship. Every Spring Break we celebrate and anticipate new updates to the APP, but sometimes technology doesn’t always work…

What happens when we come together to question our relationship to technology and realize it’s our humanity that matters more than anything else? Join us on a journey of creative voices discovering the value of true connection without the distraction of a handheld medium."

Culver City Volunteers needed! One hour of sheer joy a week- for 9 weeks only. Become a Mentor with Young Storytellers! ...
16/02/2019

Culver City Volunteers needed!

One hour of sheer joy a week- for 9 weeks only.

Become a Mentor with Young Storytellers!

Wednesdays 12:45-1:45 at Linwood Howe, Tuesdays 1-2 at El Rincon/Farragut

(More days/times available in the area as well)

It only takes an hour a week, during your lunch break, to mentor a Young Storyteller. In the Script to Stage Program, 5th-grade students are given a mentor to work with them one-on-one as they imagine, develop, and write their own short screenplay. At the end of the program, Hollywood actors perform the students’ scripts at an in-school assembly, called the "Big Show."

We work with students who are not typically considered the "stars" of their class; English-language learners, children on the autism spectrum, who may be painfully shy, or who have difficulty seeing a project through to completion, and students whose parents don't have the money to pay for an arts activity. When these students walk down the red carpet and receive a standing ovation from their peers, it is a transformative, crucible moment in their development. From this experience, children learn that their voice matters.

Watch this video or visit us at www.youngstorytellers.com/volunteer and help us mentor the next generation of great storytellers!

Contact [email protected] and [email protected] to get started!

CBS visits a Young Storytellers program to see what it's all about. Part of the CBS This Morning "A More Perfect Union" segment.

High school students check this out.
14/02/2019

High school students check this out.

A totally free event to help you go to college and learn about careers in the arts.

Just returned from seeing Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at Ahmanson Theatre with 150 students from Culver City High Schoo...
14/02/2019

Just returned from seeing Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at Ahmanson Theatre with 150 students from Culver City High School. Incredible experience. Thank you Center Theatre Group!

Next up at The Actors' Gang Theater
24/01/2019

Next up at The Actors' Gang Theater

The madness begins today with the first preview of ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST aaaaaand it’s Pay What You Can! 📸by Ashley Randall

Great opportunity for High School Students
07/12/2018

Great opportunity for High School Students

Student Meet-Up at the Ahmanson Theatre A Pre-Show Event and Performance of Matthew Bourne's Cinderella.

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