Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is proud to announce their new innovative arts education initiative titled PROJECT 38 which will launch next school year. Over the last 20 years, CSC has brought classical theatre and literature to life for over 200,000 students from 150 schools in more than 100 zip codes across three states. This close connection with students and educators has inspired them to take on this exciting new endeavor. This season, Cincinnati Shakespeare is also "completing the canon" by producing all 38 of Shakespeare's plays. The 38 plays have served as the inspiration for the title of PROJECT 38.
On the evening of April 23rd, CSC unveiled this new initiative called PROJECT 38. In this program, CSC will collaborate with 38 different area schools. Each school will be given one of the 38 plays in Shakespeare's canon. Then, over the course of the year, teaching artists from CSC will go out to each of the schools and work with the students and faculty on bringing that play to life in various ways. This could be through a traditional production, a monologue or scene, or a dance piece, or music piece, a mural, etc.- anything the students & school can conceive of and feel passionately about. It will culminate in the PROJECT 38 festival at the end of the school year which will become a multi-day celebration in which all the students will gather, and share what they've created with each other, their schools, family and friends and with the community at large.The list of the first 38 schools selected is below. This program will be offered to 38 schools each season at no additional cost to the school. For information about how to support or get involved with PROJECT 38, please contact Jeanna Vella, Director of Education and Communications at jeanna.vella@cincyshakes.com or 513.381.2273 ext. 3202, or visit www.cincyshakes.com.
Inaugural PROJECT 38 School List:
Aiken High School
Anderson High School
Archbishop Moeller High School
Bellevue High School
Boone County High School
Campbell County High School
The Cincinnati Waldorf School
Cincinnati Christian High School
Clark Montessori
Covington Catholic High School
Covington Latin School
Dixie Heights High School
Elder High School
Finneytown High School
Hamilton High School
Indian Hill High School
Kings High School
Lakota West High School
Leaves of Learning
Lebanon High School
Mercy Montessori
Milford High School
Mother of Mercy
Notre Dame Academy
Oak Hills High School
Ohio Virtual Academy
School of Creative and Performing Arts
The Seven Hills School
South Dearborn High School
St Thomas School
St Ursula Academy
Sycamore High School
New School Montessori
Turpin High School
Ursuline Academy
Villa Madonna Academy
Walnut Hills High School
Wyoming High School
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