Ian Kim had come to this latest rehearsal with a large cardboard box, one with taped seams and a sort of wedge of separate cardboard on its top. It turned out that wedge was actually the top part of a T-shaped chunk of cardboard that could be moved up.
As the directors of the annual Youth Performance Festival, as well as independent performing artists, we write today to express our enormous gratitude for the Northampton Arts Council, the Greenfield Local Cultural Council, the South Hadley Local.
Finding that creative spark: One generation of artists nurtures the next at the Youth Performance Festival
All together now: students and mentor artists in the Youth Peformance Festival program met in Zoom workshops last month to develop student performance pieces. Image courtesy Kelly Silliman
The Youth Performance Festival, staged in person in February 2020 at the Northampton Arts Trust building, is designed to “support young artists’ agency,” organizers say. Image courtesy Kelly Silliman
The Youth Performance Festival, staged in person in February 2020 at the Northampton Arts Trust building, is designed to “support young artists’ agency,” organizers say. Image courtesy Kelly Silliman