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Place: Vision & Voice (PVV)
Place: Vision & Voice is a community-centered digital storytelling and performance residency program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University. It provides a distinct, non-threatening forum focused on the assets, strengths and experiences children bring to their communities.
Place Vision & Voice believes:
- The arts are vital to a healthy society
- Performing arts give voice to the often voiceless
- Children and youth are community assets not liabilities
Place: Vision & Voice examines:
- Identity and self-concept
- The connections between self and society
- How young people explore and express a vision) their own distinctiveness (voice) as situated within community (place)
How Place: Vision & Voice works:
- Participants and collaborating artists create and edit multi-media performance collages.
- The artwork incorporates music, graphics, video, creative movement, creative writing and scripted presentation.
- The pieces are brought back into the community to spark democratic dialogue, youth feedback on critical issues and candid conversations.