Place: Vision & Voice is a community-centered digital storytelling and performance residency program in the Herberger College of 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.