State: MA

The Arts & Justice Collective hosts Big Read Cape Cod, exploring themes within "Citizen: An American Lyric." We are a group of non-profit or mission driven organizations based on Cape Cod, MA that uses our collective strengths, missions, and resources to empower each other and our community to create a culture of belonging for members of historically-excluded groups through art and social justice.

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) and Montague Public Libraries, with other libraries and organizations, will bring 61 Connecticut River Valley towns and cities together through creative programs to explore Ross Gay’s poetry collection “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” and the healing power of nature, community, and art in the face of loss and pain—November 2024 through June 2025.

The Becket and Washington, Massachusetts communities will read The Bear by Andrew Krivak and engage in enriching and creative activities and conversations around environmental awareness - specifically the appreciation, respect, and conservation of our beautiful and rural surroundings.

Shakespeare & Company’s Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare annually brings abridged productions of Shakespeare to thousands of students and teachers in middle and high schools, colleges, and performing arts centers across the Northeast. Through faithfully prepared performances, together with talkbacks and participatory workshops, the Tour helps fill a critical need for arts education programs.

CSC will share a fully staged production of MACBETH with some 6,000+ Boston area students, through 8 student matinees, as part of its annual Stage2 production in spring 2025. The play will be tailored to a student audience, feature a diverse cast of early career actors, and be enhanced with educational elements including school workshops and post-show conversations.

ASP will work with 500 students to explore A Midsummer Night's Dream, tackling language, character, and themes and connecting them to our current moment via both the text and casting. Schools will receive 1-2 workshops or an extended residency; complimentary tickets to a student matinee with a post-show discussion; a pre-show study guide; and an invitation for staff to ASP’s Teacher Institute.

The Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare brings abridged productions of Shakespeare to thousands of students and teachers in middle and high schools, colleges, and performing arts centers across the Northeast...

ASP seeks funding for an exciting innovation in our work in the MA Juvenile Justice system. In FY23, in partnership with the Department of Youth Services, ASP will create dedicated...

ASP seeks funding to work with 500 students from 10 schools to explore As You Like It, tackling language, character, and themes, and exploring identity and intersectionality via both the...

For its next Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company will offer a 90-minute production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in full in-person, hybrid, and livestream formats; as well...