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Day #10 - of the 60 Days of Gratitude Meme
This is Day #10 of 60 Days of Gratitude Meme
The prompt is Name something from your childhood that you are grateful for.
Theater for Young America in Kansas City. In the fifth grade - I was introduced to Theater for Young America. We had recently moved to Kansas City, and my parents took me to a live children's theater presentation. I fell in love.
For a shy, awkward child, with a speech impediment (a lisp) - theater was a godsend. Because of theater - I no longer have a lisp, or any speech impediment.
My parents enrolled me in various classes, during the school year and in the summer. I did two long summer programs - we'd take classes, and perform in a theater production for about a month. During this - I performed in The Hobbit as the Great Goblin (I was five foot ten in the sixth grade and towered over almost everyone). Also in Midsummer Night's Dream. And I learned how to sword fight on the stage with glowing swords.
I'm grateful for this experience and for organizations like this one across the US.
"Theatre for Young America (TYA) began in 1974 at the Waldo Astoria Dinner Playhouse. In 1977, the troupe became an independent organization and moved to Overland Park, Kansas, where it performed for 17 years in a converted cinema theatre. During this time the organization grew from 4 productions to 7 or 8 per season, added drama classes, summer workshops and summer productions, and outreach workshops in schools. TYA operated in the Mission Center Mall from 1994 to 2003."
Today TYA performs on the City Stage at Union Station, the Wonderscope Children’s Museum and Avila University. Since our beginning in 1974 we have worked to create each child’s lifelong relationship with theatre. Our ultimate goal, then and now, is to encourage the educational and emotional growth of young people through our arts-based experiences.
To reach this goal TYA has produced over 200 productions, including dozens of new and commissioned plays, plus many of the most acclaimed plays for young audiences by established playwrights. TYA has developed dozens of new plays and musical plays based on classic children’s literature, historical figures and
current social issues, such as child sexual abuse, child care, and conflict resolution.
TYA contracts with Actors’ Equity Association, the national guild for professional actors, and is an active participant in the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ/USA), the Arts Partners program of Young Audiences, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, and the Arts Council of Johnson County.
The prompt is Name something from your childhood that you are grateful for.
Theater for Young America in Kansas City. In the fifth grade - I was introduced to Theater for Young America. We had recently moved to Kansas City, and my parents took me to a live children's theater presentation. I fell in love.
For a shy, awkward child, with a speech impediment (a lisp) - theater was a godsend. Because of theater - I no longer have a lisp, or any speech impediment.
My parents enrolled me in various classes, during the school year and in the summer. I did two long summer programs - we'd take classes, and perform in a theater production for about a month. During this - I performed in The Hobbit as the Great Goblin (I was five foot ten in the sixth grade and towered over almost everyone). Also in Midsummer Night's Dream. And I learned how to sword fight on the stage with glowing swords.
I'm grateful for this experience and for organizations like this one across the US.
"Theatre for Young America (TYA) began in 1974 at the Waldo Astoria Dinner Playhouse. In 1977, the troupe became an independent organization and moved to Overland Park, Kansas, where it performed for 17 years in a converted cinema theatre. During this time the organization grew from 4 productions to 7 or 8 per season, added drama classes, summer workshops and summer productions, and outreach workshops in schools. TYA operated in the Mission Center Mall from 1994 to 2003."
Today TYA performs on the City Stage at Union Station, the Wonderscope Children’s Museum and Avila University. Since our beginning in 1974 we have worked to create each child’s lifelong relationship with theatre. Our ultimate goal, then and now, is to encourage the educational and emotional growth of young people through our arts-based experiences.
To reach this goal TYA has produced over 200 productions, including dozens of new and commissioned plays, plus many of the most acclaimed plays for young audiences by established playwrights. TYA has developed dozens of new plays and musical plays based on classic children’s literature, historical figures and
current social issues, such as child sexual abuse, child care, and conflict resolution.
TYA contracts with Actors’ Equity Association, the national guild for professional actors, and is an active participant in the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ/USA), the Arts Partners program of Young Audiences, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, and the Arts Council of Johnson County.
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It was very truncated - we only did the journey for the gold and the dragon, the fight between the five armies was left out.
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One an attack started, it rapidly escalated, and I had to rest in bed, albeit sitting up to make breathing easier (or possible). The attacks could last for hours. (Remember, inhalers didn't exist in the mid 1950's. You waited the attack out, or if it progressed, you went to the hospital).
To occupy my mind and deflect it from from physical distress, my mother read to me. After a while, I became fascinated with how she did this, and asked her to teach me, and she did.
Reading open this entire new world to me, and my parents bought me books and magazines and I devoured them.
Humorously (to me, although my mother didn't think so), my kindergarten teacher was dismayed that this five-year-old could read at close to a second grade level, and complained about it. My mom was very not amused, and gave her what-for. Somehow, the teacher must have managed with me!
I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without becoming an avid reader.
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It reminds me of something similar that happened to my father. He got really ill with something or other as a small child - and as a result spent a year doing very little but reading, and it made him an avid reader. He read Treasure Island, Dickens, etc as a a child because of this.