Education Outreach
Our Vision for Outreach Programming
Our vision at Wing-It Productions is to create a catalog of congruent education programs that work in harmony, supporting students wherever they fall on the spectrum of needs. This will include providing in-school and after-school programs that will aid in preventing youth crimes, while also reaching out to youth who are already incarcerated to help them prepare to re-enter the community.
Our vision at Wing-It Productions is to create a catalog of congruent education programs that work in harmony, supporting students wherever they fall on the spectrum of needs. This will include providing in-school and after-school programs that will aid in preventing youth crimes, while also reaching out to youth who are already incarcerated to help them prepare to re-enter the community.
Strategies to Achieve Program Goals
All WIP education programs are focused on increasing communication skills through improvisational theater. All of the fundamental techniques of improv are based in communication and trust. The way that learning improv differs from most instruction is that these skills are practiced in the form of games - thereby making the lessons fun. This provides an optimal atmosphere for learning, and allows these youth the ability to practice valuable communication skills in a supportive and relaxing environment.
All WIP education programs are focused on increasing communication skills through improvisational theater. All of the fundamental techniques of improv are based in communication and trust. The way that learning improv differs from most instruction is that these skills are practiced in the form of games - thereby making the lessons fun. This provides an optimal atmosphere for learning, and allows these youth the ability to practice valuable communication skills in a supportive and relaxing environment.
Current Outreach Programs
Improv at Juvenile Detention: A weekly hour-long improv class offered in partnership with the King County Juvenile Detention Facility (more)
The Bridge Program: Designed to help transition youth in Detention or on probation into the community by volunteering, learning, and working at our theater. (more)
Improv at the Sanctuary Arts Center: A partnership program that provides homeless and street-involved youth with a weekly improv class. (more)
Public School Residencies: Partnerships with targeted schools in the central and south regions of Seattle to help prevent youth crime. (more)
Quick Facts (2010)
We reached over 375 youth in detention with our improv program.
We reached roughly 40 students at Sanctuary Arts Center, working with many of them in on-going improv classes throughout the school year.
We partnered with Rainier Beach HS and Aki Kurose MS to provide free improv programming to roughly 75 students.
We provided two Bridge Students with job opportunities and safe and productive working environment.
| "I am overwhelmed by the changes I have seen in these kids over the months. It is amazing how the students, who were the most withdrawn at the beginning of the project, are now the ones who come bounding through |  Our improv class at Nova High School |
| the door, ready and eager for the next class. Telling stories through improv has given the students a voice."
-Kate Jaeger, Improv Teaching Artist. |
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