APPLY FOR YOUth RIOT 2016 NOW
YOUthRiot 2016 – Official Application
Deadline to submit your application to [email protected] is February 1, 2016 @ midnight.
WHAT IS YOUth RIOT?
YOUth Riot is an original Third Street Theatre creation now in it’s second year. YOUth Riot 2016 is co-produced by Alberta Playwrights’ Network and Third Street Theatre.
YOUth Riot is a free 3-month playwriting program for queer teens.
The Program: Over the course of 3 months, Third Street Theatre, APN, and guest artists will facilitate a playwriting program for Queer teens, helping them tell their stories through the medium of 10 minute plays. This is a hybrid playwriting and workshop-based program, where industry professionals lead workshops aimed at mentoring program participants and playwriting skills are built up around these sessions. The program is designed to ignite creativity in teens with or without experience in playwriting, and most importantly, provides valuable tools to foster confidence, acceptance, and positive self-image.
The program finishes with a public festival of short plays written by the participants and staged by professional actors and directors from the theatre community.
Eligibility: LGBTQQAIP2S+ Youth
Cost: Free!
Applications due: Feb 1, 2016
Program Length: Feb 10, 2016 – May 11, 2016
Meeting Venue: CommunityWise Resource Centre
Meeting Times: Wednesdays from 6-9pm
Public performance: May 11, 2016 at 7pm at Lunchbox Theatre in the base of the Calgary Tower. Admission by donation.
Some LGBTQ Youth statistics*:
- 4 in 10 LGBTQ youth say the community in which they live is not accepting of LGBTQ people
- LGBTQ youth are TWICE as likely to physically and emotionally bullied
- 73% of LGBTQ youth say they are more honest about themselves online than they are in their real lives
- 92% of LGBTQ say they hear negative messages about being LGBTQ – namely at school, online, and from their peers.
- LGBTQ youth are TWICE as likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers
- LGBTQ youth are THREE times as likely to abuse illegal drugs
- LGBTQ youth are FOUR times more likely to attempt suicide, and are 5.4 times more likely to suffer from severe depression (Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 10 to 24)
*statistics from Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG, and The Trevor Project
