The Performance Project Inc

We invite you join us in our work of enriching the lives of youth in Springfield through the arts and culture, and supporting the kind of young leadership that will create powerful, positive change in local communities and the world at large.

First Generation members gain communication, public speaking and leadership skills, teach workshops, create and perform powerful original theater. They practice civic engagement by participating in community events.  

SUPPORT THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN:

• Youth leadership initiatives, critical independent thinking, public voice, civic engagement

• Art that engages youth and the public in dialog about critical social and cultural issues

• Multi-faceted educational experiences

• Intergenerational and Intercultural alliances

• Life-long caring relationships over multiple generations

• Art that expresses and celebrates our humanity and our inter-connectedness

• Access to quality educational and professional  opportunities for our members

• Coalition and movement building

• Achieving personal and collective excellence

The Performance Project is an arts community of many ages and ancestries that engages young people in intensive artistic training, inter-generational mentoring, leadership development, and community building through the arts.

FIRST GENERATION YOUTH…

• Train with professional artists

• Become teachers and peer mentors

• Have performed at Springfield College, Hampshire College, Westfield University, UMASS, Renaissance and Commerce High Schools, STCC, HCC, City Stage, Amherst College, Academy of Music,  National Hispanic Cultural Center, and many other venues…

• Lived on Amherst College Campus and perfomed in the Ko Festival of Performance, and by invitation at the Revolutions International Theater Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP US TO...

• Continue to hold artistic and leadership trainings

• Finish and perform, "Tenderness," a new original First Generation production 

• Create video documentation of our work

Our Creative Youth Development initiatives offer children and young adults opportunities to develop their strengths, nurture their creativity and set ambitious academic and professional goals.

For Business and Corporate gifts please contact us directly.