The Continuum Project

The Legacy Program is an initiative in (3) three parts designed to use the arts to reconnect descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade across the world to the specificity of their African ancestry.

PART (1) ONE --The Legacy Program: Residency is an theatre arts education, youth development initiative in which middle school students synthesize the study of personal genealogy and genetics into a theatrical experience of self-discovery. At the close of their culminating performance, students receive the results of their ancestry test, thus learning the probable place of their African ancestral heritage for the first time.

PART (2) TWO -- The Legacy Program: Journey is the cultural exchange part of the LP which allows students and the teaching artists who facilitate the Residency to travel to Africa for a theatrical cultural exchange with youth and professional artists on the continent. The Journey has a launch date in the summer of 2013.

PART (3) THREE --The Legacy Program: Reflection is the part of the LP where the professional artists who facilitated the LP: Residency, create a professional piece of theatre using their LP:Residency experience as inspiration. Click here for more information on Glenn Gordon's RE:DEFINITION. Click here for more information on Nikkole Salter's REPAIRING A NATION.

"The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit, to choose our better history...We are the keepers of this legacy." -- Barack Obama, Inaugural Speech, Jan. 20, 2009

Cycle (3) Three Performance Program: CLICK HERE

for a Brochure click below

BROCHURE

Get Legacy Program Forms here:
Child Registration Form: PDF - APPLY ONLINE

Media Release Form: PDF/Child

Program Commitment Contract: PDF/Child

Liability Wavier: PDF/Child

LPC4 Entrance Survey: Part 1 - Genealogy/Ancestry TAKE ONLINE

LPC4 Entrance Survey: Part 2 - Theatre TAKE ONLINE

LP Alumni Leadership Initiative Application: PDF

Adult Registration Form: PDF - APPLY ONLINE