The 524 Project
Spring 2014
In August of 2013, YPT was thrilled to learn that we won a $50,000 grant that enabled us to partner with Detroit-based InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) and Meridian Hill Pictures (MHP) to work with youth in DC and Detroit. Thanks to the Theatre Communications Group and the Metlife/TCG A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It, YPT, MHP, and iO are using state of the art audiovisual equipment to connect a classroom in Detroit to a classroom in DC to facilitate a cultural exchange of playwriting, poetry and media arts this spring.
Click to find out more about The 524 Project and our Final Presentation, May 22, 2014, at Anacostia Playhouse!
In August of 2013, YPT was thrilled to learn that we won a $50,000 grant that enabled us to partner with Detroit-based InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) and Meridian Hill Pictures (MHP) to work with youth in DC and Detroit. Thanks to the Theatre Communications Group and the Metlife/TCG A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It, YPT, MHP, and iO are using state of the art audiovisual equipment to connect a classroom in Detroit to a classroom in DC to facilitate a cultural exchange of playwriting, poetry and media arts this spring.
“Both Detroit and DC loom large in the national imagination,” says YPT Artistic Director Nicole Jost. “We hear stories about these two cities all the time. What we want to do is empower these young people—the city’s residents—to tell the stories of their own communities. Our hope is that they will challenge and inspire each other, as well as the rest of the country.”