Posted on: January 31st, 2012
If last week was a great week for performances, you just know this week will be a great week for performance videos…!
Video of original plays by writers at Mt. Scott, who debuted their work last Tuesday, are now available at the Past Performances page of our website. Or, check them out by clicking here, pop up some popcorn, pull up a chair, and lend your own round of applause to some pretty great hard work.
Posted on: January 30th, 2012
Hey Folks!
Wanted to share this write-up from Mt. Scott Learning Centers with you all. As you may know, we’ve had two workshops with Mt. Scott High School this school year, working with 14 fantastic young playwrights. Check out what the school has to say about their process and the work they created!
Click here to read.
And remember, our current workshop at Rosemont School starts today. So excited to see the works created by these young women in a couple of weeks on February 14th. Stay tuned for details!
Posted on: January 6th, 2012
We’re kicking off the New Year with TWO performances just TWO days apart! It all starts with our Annual Winter Showcase: WORD.VOICE. on January 22nd at The Gerding Theater at the Armory. Come see works from the last few PlayWrite workshops, and hear new original works from past workshop participants. The event is part of the Fertile Ground Festival, and we’re excited to pack the house! Then on Tuesday the 24th, head to Theater! Theatre! to see the world premieres of works by writers at the Mt. Scott workshop…brand new plays, with brand new characters brought to life onstage by professional actors. These are both free events that you do not want to miss!
WORD.VOICE.
Sunday, January 22nd, 7:30PM
The Gerding Theater at the Armory - 128 NW 11th (at Davis)
Mt. Scott Workshop Performance
Tuesday, January 24th, 12:30PM
Theater! Theatre! - 3430 SE Belmont (between 34th and 35th)
Celebrating creative, honest, original works is what we’re all about, and we hope you’ll join us in honoring the voices of our courageous young writers. See you there!
Want to help us out? Well aren’t you sweet!! Head on over to our Facebook event and invite more of your friends to join you at these incredible performance.
Posted on: December 9th, 2011
It truly is a Season of Giving! The Give!Guide just announced a new flurry of giveaways; make your gift to PlayWrite, Inc. through the Guide on any of these days, and you’ll be automatically entered into a drawing to win a correspond prize:
Friday, Dec. 9: Twenty donors will win copies of the 2012 Chinook Book, with offers from green and local merchants in Portland.
Sun, Dec. 11: One donor gets a special pack of goodies from Stam Dog Treats, with their pup’s pic on the label!
Tues, Dec. 13: Four 21+ donors will win magnum bottles of A to Z’s 2009 Floozy Pinot Noir.
Fri, Dec. 16: Twenty donors get coupons for free cuts at Bishops Barbershops.
Mon, Dec. 19: Two 21+ donors will win full mixed cases of distilled spirits from Rogue Distillery, and six more will get one bottle each of Rogue’s spirits.
Sat, Dec. 24: One gal and one fella will each win skincare packages from Kiehl’s.
Plus, we’re announcing our own giveaways throughout December! Keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter, and check back here for announcements and reminders as these exciting days approach.
Want to be a rockstar PlayWrite ambassador? The next person to make a Give!Guide gift and bring a buddy into our support circle as a new donor through the Guide gets two gift certificates to Case Study Coffee: one for you and one for your friend. Just shoot me an email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) explaining the connection between the two of you, and I’ll make sure you both get the goods!
‘Tis the Season, indeed!
Posted on: December 7th, 2011
I wanted to let you all in on a new name in music.
Drew, who attended a PlayWrite Workshop in 2006, has recently released a couple of titles to iTunes. You can click here to check them out and purchase them.
Drew says that his PlayWrite experience inspired him in his songs today. “When you’re younger you don’t think about why you feel the way you feel. You’re just angry, you don’t think about why. Having to stop and think about why is so powerful.”
If you’re a Tweeter, you can follow Drew here for up-to-the-minute updates on his music!
Posted on: November 9th, 2011
There are so many cool features to the Willamette Week Give!Guide that I didn’t know where on our Facebook or Twitter to keep them all! Here are some fun facts about the Willamette Week’s annual gift campaign:
*The Give!Guide was started in an effort to enthuse donors aged 18-35, encouraging the next generation of philanthropists to find organizations they’re passionate about now. In fact, a prize will be awarded at the end of the Give!Guide campaign to the organization receiving the most donations from donors under 35…be sure to check the box at the end of the donation page if that includes you!
*Willamette Week offers its own incentives to donors who give through their portal…check ‘em out!
*In addition to WW’s incentive’s, TigerLogic has generously placed a 1:1 match on the first $2500 in donations to PlayWrite received through the Guide…that means that at the end of the Give!Guide campaign, your $10 donation will count towards $20, your $50 to $100, etc.
*Any donation made to the Give!Guide on November 17th will be entered in a raffle to win one bottle each of every product made by Clear Creek Distillery, which Willamette Week will deliver to the winner on the next day. This is a great day to suggest to your friends that they make a donation (if they win, maybe they’ll split the spoils!).
*The Give!Guide awards a prize at the end of the campaign to the organization that receives the highest number of donations. Remember, every donation counts, and with our TigerLogic match in place (as well as a current match from the Miller Foundation), we’re better poised than ever to make the most of your gift.
*We made a video! Go check out our promo video, featuring some great actors performing fantastic original works written by young writers in our workshops.
Thanks a lot for checking this info out! We hope you’re as excited about the Give!Guide as we are (hint: that would be really excited!), and hope to see you in the audience of our Alliance show next week!
Best, and then even better,
Emily
Posted on: October 19th, 2011
We’ve been blazing away here this Fall and have some fun things to share with you:
First, we’re proud to show video and pictures from our last workshop performance, highlighting the work of young writers from our Bienestar workshop. You can watch their plays, read their scripts, and see pictures of the August 30th performance at the Past Performances page of our website.
In addition, we’re about to celebrate the works of 8 more creative young artists on November 2nd, when performances of plays written by the students of Mt. Scott participating in our current workshop will go up before a live audience (click here for more event info). These talented writers are in the midst of their playwriting workshop now, and are busily chipping away at brand sparkling new stories. We’re excited to see professional actors bring their new works to life at the performance, and hope to see you there!
Posted on: September 7th, 2011
Well hey, there.
I’ve got a couple of questions for you:
Do you like supporting local businesses, resilience, change, and growth?
Do you want to help celebrate the creative voices of youth in Oregon?
How about cupcakes? Do you like cupcakes?
If you said “yes!” to any or all of the above (and certainly you at least like cupcakes…), PlayWrite has some cool news for you. Cupcake Jones, a bakery in the Pearl churning out uber-delicious treats, donates 5% of their sales every Tuesday to a local non-profit. We think it’s a really nifty and wonderful way that they’ve chosen to give back to the community, and we applaud their generosity (and cupcakes!).
On Tuesday, September 13th, PlayWrite will be the lucky participant in their 5% program. That means that any cupcakes bought – or ordered and paid for – from their NW 10th and Everett store on the 13th won’t just feed you, they’ll feed back into PlayWrite’s efforts to use the power of performance in art to transform the lives of youth at the edge.
…and did we mention the cupcakes?
Viva la dessert!
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Posted on: September 6th, 2011
A big, huge, whoopin’ and hollerin’ THANK YOU to everyone who helped raise money for PlayWrite on my Birthday! For my Birthday on August 30th, the same date as the Bienestar Performance, I asked my friends and family to make donations to PlayWrite, in lieu of gifts. I sent website links to my contacts, enthusiastically discussed the mission with anyone who asked, and set up a Birthday Wish through the Causes application on Facebook with a goal to raise $500. Web donations, Facebook contributions, and checks in the mail added up to just under $600 for PlayWrite Inc.! I know my friends and family members are generous, big-hearted people, but man oh man did they blow me out of the water on this! The financial gifts were extraordinarily kind, yes, and people also showed support in so many other important ways: links on their own Facebook pages, sharing the message with friends/partners/colleagues they thought would find the mission compelling, cards and messages cheering the effort along. My own mother put a link on her business page for the duration of the wish. The girls with whom I administer a weekly a blog gave continuous shout-outs on our Twitter account. An Aunt I haven’t spoken to in ages reached out to me, inspired by what PlayWrite does. I wanted to give everyone proper gratitude for helping me celebrate my Birthday the best way I could think to: supporting a mission I adore, and applauding the creativity of youth in the community. On my behalf, and on behalf of PlayWrite Inc., thank you thank you thank you!
Big thanks, and even bigger bear hugs,
Emily
Development Associate, PlayWrite Inc.
Posted on: August 31st, 2011
A tee shirt in search of a rare flower
A sofa collecting dust
A shimmering gold ring with one hundred diamonds
A pair of scissors with a secret to tell
These are just some of the 12 new characters brought to life last night by a handful of talented actors at the Walters Cultural Arts Center, in performances of 6 brand new plays created by writers of the Bienestar workshop. The evening featured 4 plays performed in English, one performed in Spanish, and one in which each of the two characters spoke a different language.
A big “Congratulations!!!” to each of the six newest PlayWrite grads! Thank you for sharing your creativity with us and giving the audience the thrill of seeing your new works.
Pictures, video, and copies of scripts (available in English and Spanish) will be available on the “Past Performances” page of the website soon!
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