YouthCo Puppet Theatre Project
Sponsor: The Gathering Place Community Centre and YouthCo AIDS Society
The YouthCo Puppet Theare Project will work with street-involved youth to produce twelve puppets, a puppet stage, and write six scripts for six 15-20 minute performances. This will be facilitated in conjunction with the YouthCo AIDS Society Theatre group, The Gathering Place, and artist Gloria Hole.
This group currently offers presentations to grades 11 and 12 students in schools. The hope is to lower the age range that youth are exposed to information to include grades 9 and 10, since it is known that youth are sexually active and experimenting as young as 12 years of age.
The Gathering Place youth population is primarily high-risk youth, education around the subjects of HIV and AIDS and Hepatitis C is a crucial part of their survival. The most recent statistics show that the HIV Positive count in the youth population is increasing at an alarming rate.
The hope is to do whatever can be done to reduce the statistics, and it is felt that reaching a younger group of youth is essential to this goal.
Contact Information
- The Gathering Place Community Centre
Contact: Wendy Wood
wendy.wood@vancouver.ca
- YouthCo AIDS Society
Contact: Chris Buckner (Theatre Group)
crisb@youthco.org
- Youth Representative
Contact: Carla
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