Next week, the community of Port Townsend, WA sends its seventh grade student body - around 100 students - to Centrum for a week of artmaking and creativity.
This is a powerful investment for a community to make.
During Tales, Texts & Theater, the entire seventh grade student body of Port Townsend's Blue Heron Middle School works with vital, contemporary artists in a variety of disciplines—creative writing, theatrical movement, music, and visual art—for a special immersion in creativity.
The lineup of performing, visual, and literary artist-faculty engages and guides young artists in the world of arts and ideas, creative risk-taking, and professional practices. Each day is divided into four workshop sessions. Blue Heron 7th grade students and teachers experience the whole range of workshop offerings.
Centrum has been producing this week for seven years at Fort Worden State Park. Seven years. Nearly 1,000 students. This type of community investment is rare, but the results are truly profound. We would like to thank our partners for their support of this program:
