RESOURCES
Youth Leadership
Theater Education
June 2013
(BOOK) Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (Theater in the Americas)
Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Facilitation & Organizing
February 2010
FIERCE: lgbtq youth of color organizing summit workshop curriculum
This curriculum packet highlights the key curriculum used in FIERCE’s LGBTQ Youth of Color Organizing Summit held on February 3, 2010. The curriculum covers basic political education on power, oppression, and youth organizing as well as basic organizing skills in base-building and campaign development. This curriculum was created by a team of FIERCE members and staff and pulls directly from FIERCE’s experience in our campaigns and base-building work.
2014
STAND UP!
A Performance-Based Action Kit in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Maya Brown and Treva deMaynadier
In Collaboration with the Out & Allied Youth Theatre. Created in Partnership with the Waterville Inclusive Community Project
Supported by funding from Maine Community Foundation, Mukti Fund and Add Verb Productions
Seeds for Change
Guides are designed to help you be more effective in your campaign, co-op or project. All Seeds for Change guides are anti-copyright. Feel free to copy, adapt, use and distribute them, as long as the final work remains anti-copyright. If you translate any of their work please let them know so that they can link to your translation.
Organizational Support
The Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project HANDBOOK and WORKBOOK
For over three years the Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project (BYAEP) has worked on developing the framework and tools to effectively measure the three main outcome areas characteristic of youth arts programs. These areas relate to artistic expression (I Create), identity (I Am), and community (We Connect). The result of 1000’s of hours of research, discussions, experimentation, and analysis of results can be found in this downloadable 168-page Handbook and Workbook. We welcome other youth arts organization to use our framework, adapt our tools, and track, articulate, and improve their own youth development outcome areas.
TCG: Resources on Sexual Violence and Misconduct in Theatre
"How do we foster professional and artistic spaces in which people feel supported, respected, empowered, and most of all, safe? We at TCG are grappling with this question alongside our colleagues across the U.S., and we look forward to working in partnership with many of you as we challenge one another to disrupt and dismantle systems that breed discrimination, and lift up the efforts of those who are creating new systems in which theatre practitioners can thrive. The resource list is not exhaustive, but provides a starting place for those looking for support and/or ideas of how to get involved."
LGBTQ+ Resources & Activities
Futures Without Violence: LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
With the help of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, National Coalition for Anti-Violence Programs, FORGE, The Northwest Network, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Casa de Esperanza – National Latin@ Network, Community United Against Violence (CUAV), Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Gender Based Violence, The Network/La Red, and the University of Pittsburgh, Futures Without Violence has developed new materials that are specifically for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer and Trans/Gender-non-conforming people.