Saving
the World Solo
...with a few friends
A Friends, Funds 'n' Frolic Raiser!
On Monday evening, August 27, Elliott Bay Book Company's reading room will roll with laughter and sighs of recognition as seven skilled Seattle actors animate monologues from Pamela Sackett's Two Minutes to Shine audition monologue book series (Samuel French, NY) and her quirky and revealing Saving the World Solo. The performances in this Friends, Funds 'n' Frolic Raiser are to benefit the familiar (www.thefamiliar.org), one of Emotion Literacy Advocates™ educational projects and its online publication that incorporates technology with creative writing, self discovery, and community dialog to bring insight into emotion and language. The familiar was created by Emotion Literacy Advocates (ELA) founding artist, Pamela Sackett, in partnership with the Alliance For Education and language arts teacher Christina Roux. Emotion Literacy Advocates creates a learning forum for insight into emotion through language and the arts. The familiar began as a year-long program at Garfield high school, where students managed all the technical tasks and collaborated with adult writers to produce the first two issues. ELA intends to expand the familiar by recruiting participants from parent and teacher organizations, at-risk youth groups, citizen groups, as well as students, interested in learning emotion literacy as a tool for open communication in our schools and neighborhoods.
The Friends, Funds 'n' Frolic Raiser aims to entertain as well as inspire understanding--as only the arts can--and raise goodwill and support to continue offering the familiar to Seattle public schools. Moderated by sparkling wit David Silverman, local star performers David Gehrman, David Klein, Kimber Lee, Gina Malvestuto, Fredrick Molitch, Meg Savlov and Timothy Piggee will inhabit monologues that show in hilarious detail how much is revealed even when we try to hide behind words--as well as how language can help us understand ourselves, our feelings and our relationships. Student contributors to the familiar will be available to talk about their experience. Audience members will also have the opportunity for immediate entertainment gratification with the Audition Auction. Tickets are $10 (for the creative artists) available at the door or at Elliott Bay Book Company, at First and Main in Pioneer Square, beginning August 6th (206.624.6600).
The Weeden Foundation, the Seattle Parent, Teacher and Student Association and Microsoft Corporation have supported the familiar. The Alliance For Education is please to serve as the fiscal agent for the familiar. The Alliance For Education is the non-profit foundation for programs and projects that support Seattle Public Schools and is classified as 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code. Donations to the familiar through The Alliance are tax-deductible.
Contact us and get involved!
Emotion
Literacy Advocates
P.O. Box 28002
Seattle, WA 98118-1002
info@emolit.org
206.723.4887
