Living Voices

Mission

Living Voices is a nonprofit educational theatre company, touring 12 unique programs which portray personal experiences in counter-narrative history and social justice movements using our signature blend of theatre & film. All 12 programs are available both live and online.

MISSION
Living Voices brings life to history through original multimedia educational theatre programs, combining live performance with archival film to authentically represent diverse perspectives from the past that resonate today.

VISION
Educate and inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds to empathize with people different from themselves, understand history through a personal, inclusive lens, and see themselves as part of it--past, present & future.

VALUES
Unique artistic and educational impact:
• access for all people and communities
• learning through diverse, lesser-known histories, experiences, and perspectives
Empathy and understanding:
• promoting racial and social justice
• standing up against prejudice and intolerance

Living Voices has presented more than 50,000 programs to over 3 million audience members throughout the United States and Canada.

Description

Living Voices partners with rural, urban, and suburban school districts, museums, historical societies, libraries, colleges, community/art/cultural centers, retirement homes, government agencies & corporations to offer programs directly onsite to audiences, primarily K-12 students who attend for free. Designed for accessibility, our flexible, solo-actor format works in both theatrical & non-traditional spaces, for groups of any size.

Programs are developed in collaboration with representative experts & community advisors. Archival film/photos immerse viewers in how a different time and place looked, sounded, and felt, while pre- and post-play discussions connect history to contemporary issues.

THROUGH THE EYES OF A FRIEND: Anne Frank & the Holocaust
THE RIGHT TO DREAM: civil rights movement
LA CAUSA: César Chávez & migrant farmworkers movement
WITHIN THE SILENCE: World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans
NATIVE VISION: Native American boarding schools & Navajo Code Talkers
OUR REVOLUTION: Revolutionary War from a Black soldier's perspective
HEAR MY VOICE: women's suffrage movement
JOURNEY FROM THE DUST: Dust Bowl & Great Depression
NORTHWEST PASSAGES: diverse communities in turn-of-the-century Pacific NW
THE NEW AMERICAN: immigration (Ellis Island & Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire)
ISLAND OF HOPE: immigration (Russian Jewish family's escape from persecution)
KLONDIKE: THE LAST ADVENTURE: women in the Yukon gold rush

Recognition

AWARDS
WA Governor's Arts Award in Education for contributions to state arts/culture, community engagement, quality of work and record of accomplishments
NW Coalition against Malicious Harassment Faces of Courage Award for efforts to stop bigotry

ENDORSEMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
Anne Frank Center USA, Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation, César Chávez Foundation, Japanese American Citizens League, Museum of Tolerance, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Anti-Defamation League, National Civil Rights Museum, United Farm Workers, NAACP, Women's Rights National Historical Park, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, Alice Paul Institute, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

FUNDERS
ArtsWA, National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities WA, National Endowment for the Humanities, Arts Fund, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture