Chicago Young Playwrights Festival (YPF)
The Young Playwrights Festival is a citywide playwriting competition for Chicago students. Currently celebrating its 24th year, this school-oriented program gives voice to the next generation. By offering access to theatre professionals, YPF encourages the development of independent, high-level thinking and strong personal values, and enhances language arts.
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Artist in Residency with Teachers in the Schools (ARTS)
This residency program offers artist-teacher collaborations in schools during school hours and links these projects to after school programs. Over the past four years, it has grown to include Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers Park neighborhoods.
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Global Voices
Global Voices involves the exchange of one-act plays between Chicago schools and schools in international cities with the purpose of promoting literacy and providing a forum for self-expression across languages and cultures.
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