“Our Towns, Our Gateway” is a community-created showcase of our contiguous rural Kentucky counties through the lens of Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” with a multilingual staged production, book discussions, and a multidisciplinary arts exhibition. The program celebrates our area’s diversity and cultural contributions, encouraging citizens to appreciate unique beauties in everyday life.
Gateway Regional Arts Center
Mt. Sterling, KY
NEA Big Read
FY2024
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Shakespeare in American Communities: Juvenile Justice
FY2024
Kentucky"Shakespeare: In Appalachia & Beyond" will engage youth with status offenses housed at Gateway Children's Services, a residential court-appointed treatment and foster care center, in the works of the Bard in both local and global contexts. Through weekly classes tying his work to modern rural Appalachian dialects & scenarios, the program will culminate in a performance at Shakespeare in the Park.