By The Cultch on October 14, 2011
By Corbin Murdoch, Youth Program Manager On September 20th and 21st, The Cultch’s Youth Program launched its 2011/2012 season with a two-day workshop with Neworld Theatre Co-Artistic Producer Adrienne Wong. Adrienne has been spearheading a project at Neworld called PodPlays. She describes the project in the following way: “A PodPlay is a short, site-specific audio [...]
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By The Cultch on August 17, 2011
When 16 high-school aged youth signed up for The Cultch Summer Camp, they were promised the opportunity to collaborate with real-world mentors currently working in the arts. Over the course of the next two weeks, our summer campers will learn all the necessary skills to put a production together from the group up. Our company-in-residence [...]
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By The Cultch on May 4, 2011
From April 25 to 30, The Cultch was taken over by eager and energetic youth for the IGNITE! Youth Festival. Hundreds of youth from across the Lower Mainland came together for a week of amazing performances. We caught up with youth playwright Chris Nyarady about the experience of seeing his play Hide and Go Sell [...]
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By The Cultch on November 30, 2010
By Corbin Murdoch, Cultch Youth Program Manager The Cultch’s Youth Program is proud to present the fourth season of our IGNITE! Mentorship Program. IGNITE! is designed to offer youth in Vancouver unprecedented access to professional artists and to demystify what it takes to build a career in the arts. In 2011 we will be offering [...]
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By Laura Tennant on October 20, 2010
It’s alive! Next spring, a living green wall is making its way to The Cultch with the help of the Environmental Youth Alliance and our very own Youth Panel. Selected by the Environmental Youth Alliance, The Cultch will be one of four buildings scheduled to have a living wall installed by gsky. Hoping to engage [...]
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By Denise Higginson on June 21, 2010
The 2010 IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival took place at The Cultch May 17 – 22. During this week, The Cultch was taken over and transformed by young people. Hundreds of youth were involved in what has grown to be Vancouver’s largest youth-driven arts festival. The festival included showcases in music, dance, and spoken word, the [...]
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By The Cultch on June 18, 2010
Here at The Cultch’s Youth Program headquarters, we are hard at work putting together one of the most ambitious programs we’ve ever created: The Summer Youth Performing Arts Intensive, colloquially known as The Cultch Summer Camp. The program brings together the artistic directors of four of Vancouver’s most respected independent performing arts companies to work [...]
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