On May 3, at 7 pm, at the Grandville Arts Academy, there will be an interesting
piece of theatre that will wrap up a semester-long partnership between Calvin
and the Academy.
Here's the story: this semester eight students in professor Robert Hubbard's
theatre class did interviews and oral histories with 30 residents in the
Roosevelt Park neighborhood. They're turning those into a drama which they will
present to the neighborhood on May 3, including neighborhood residents as
actors. Folks from the neighborhood also are doing the set design and dance
interludes. And everyone who was interviewed will be invited to the play.
During the semester the Calvin students also volunteered their time helping to
teach the theatre-related curriculum of Grandville Arts Academy.
Says Hubbard: "The event is designed to celebrate the diversity, complexity,
and strength of the Roosevelt Park community."
Hubbard notes that theatre can be a way to create, celebrate and reflect
meaning for a society, bearing witness to a community's diversity, struggles,
and triumphs.
Contact Hubbard at 616-957-6285
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