Basalt High School
We have two residencies running at Basalt High School:
-Original Theatre-Making
-Drumming
Scroll down to learn more about our drumming residency with newcomer students who have just arrived in the U.S. from Mexico and Central America.
Original Theatre-Making
Alongside Roaring Fork High School
Students create an original show in only 4 short weeks!
Each winter, students from Roaring Fork High School and Basalt High School work with a group of teaching artists to create an original show in only 4 short weeks! We start these projects with blank slates – no script or title. The ideas onstage come from our remarkable youth ensemble under the guidance of our teaching artists. Using many different art forms, we create the shows.
Past Performances:
March 16 and 17, 2018 at Thunder River Theatre in Carbondale, CO
“I gained a heck ton of confidence””
The making-of VOICES Project 2018.
March 16, 2017, 7:30 - 8:30pm at Basalt High School Auditorium
“This project is one that I can see myself writing about in my college essays and one that has changed the person I am. I have grown while doing this project because it allowed me to open up and express what I feel. I never expected to write about being adopted but it changed me as a person, people in the play and also people who just watched the play. I was so surprised when I wrote a poem that actually meant something to people all around me. I opened up so much during this time, it was unbelievable to me.”
The making-of VOICES Project 2017.
Explore our Past Teaching Artists here.
Drumming
with Students from Leticia Ingram’s Newcomer Class
Local drummer, Eric Baumheier, works with students in-school for six weeks (two days per week). The result is a confident, cohesive youth drum circle! Drumming is an excellent way to release tension, expression emotion, build teamwork, and create safe space to do the vulnerable work of learning a new language and adjusting to a new school.
Want to learn more?
Please contact Renee: renee@amplifyingvoices.org