2018-431-E Arts - Juliet Kaplan arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 9E1F355E- 98F3 -4A36- 9415- DF30F26C06BE Chapel Hill -based CTC believes that women's impact on history, science, mathematics, activism, civil rights, and more are too little known. Through performance, CTC elevates the stories of remarkable women and brings them into the collective consciousness for all young learners. CTC's new play will be the second addition to its catalogue of plays, with the ultimate goal of having ten to twelve such plays available for schools and other organizations to present. CTC's first play — "Sally's Ride: To Space and Beyond! ", about Sally Ride and other women who have contributed to space exploration — was performed at Carrboro Elementary, Frank Porter Graham Elementary, and Weatherstone Elementary during the 2017 -18 school year. Similar to "Sally's Ride: To Space and Beyond! ", CTC's new 45- minute play will be suitable for K - 5 graders and will incorporate original music, movement, and audience participation. Performances will take place in elementary schools, libraries, science festivals, and more. Although the full play is 45 minutes, it will also be possible to pull out blocks of the play to be performed in smaller modules. This will allow smaller pieces of the play to be used by schools to perform on their own as well - for example a school chorus could perform one or all of the songs, a 4th grade science class could learn a 15- minute block of the play and perform for other classes, CTC could perform a small block of the play during a science festival where the full play would be too long, etc. This modular approach will allow for the stories and concepts within the play to reach as many as possible in our community, and will also allow young people to participate in the story telling through their own performing of parts of the play. Script writing and music composition will begin mid -July 2018 with a November 30, 2018 deadline for development to be finalized. Rehearsals will take place during December 2018 and January 2019, and performances will be ready for schools and the larger community in February 2019. CTC is a member of CAPS and the UAC, and receive some elementary school bookings through those organizations. CTC also heavily markets the play to elementary schools in the Chapel Hill / Carrboro City school system, as well as Orange County. In addition to elementary schools, CTC is also working with venues such as the Chapel Hill Library and the Morehead Planetarium to consider showcasing the play as part of other programs.