Outreach: Grrl Action
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A PROJECT OF RUDE MECHANICALS
Grrl Action is supported in part by:
Impact Austin, American Association of University Women, Applied Materials, LCRA Employees' United Charities, Laos House,
Dollar General, the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and many generous individual donors.
ABOUT GRRL ACTION
OUR MISSION: Grrl Action helps teenage girls find voice and vision through the power of performance.
OUR VISION: We see teenage girls realizing their potential as artists, critical thinkers and powerful role models.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES: Engagement with the arts • Creative problem solving • Social responsibility • Self-respect • Tolerance
The Grrl Action program began in 1999 as a summer workshop in creative writing and performance designed to empower girls between the ages of 13 and 16 to find their public voices and build confidence while collaborating with young women from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
In fall 2007, after eight years of success, Grrl Action expanded its mission, and added a year-round performance-based artistic education program. Grrl Action now enables young women from 13 to 18 to plan and execute individual, long-term artistic projects, working across the disciplines, alongside professional female artists as their mentors.
Grrl Action participants now can expand their practice beyond the theatre space and into their everyday lives and communities, making them not only better writers and performers, but better citizens, activists, and role models. Engaging them through collectivity and community involvement, Grrl Action inspires young women to widen and transcend the definition of what it means to be an artist.
Go to www.grrlaction.org, Grrl Action's dedicated website, to learn more about the program.
SUPPORT GRRL ACTION
BECOME A MENTOR
Are you a professional artist, performer, writer, designer, dancer or filmmaker interested in making a big difference in the life of a teenage girl? If so, Grrl Action would love to tell you more about becoming a mentor in our year-round program. For more information on becoming a mentor, please email grrlaction@rudemechs.com.
Grrl Action mentor positions are only available to women.
BECOME A DONOR
If you would like to donate cash or in-kind goods or services to Rude Mechanicals in support of Grrl Action, click here, and be sure to earmark your donation for Grrl Action.
BECOME A VOLUNTEER
If you would like to donate your time to Rude Mechanicals in support of Grrl Action, click here, we'd love to have your help.
CONTACT US
General questions and inquiries:
email: grrlaction@rudemechs.com
tel: 512/476-7833
For tickets or information please call 512-476-RUDE
or visit our tickets page. Copyright © 2005 Rude Mechanicals. All rights reserved.
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