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Teen Council goes to Washington BY ANTHON Y JACKSON AND R ACHEL HULL
This past June, Berkeley Rep sent six students (Lucy Curran, Bridey
Caramagno, Carmela Catoc, Fiona Deane-Grundman, Genevieve Saldanha, and Maya Simon) from our Teen Council along with staff members to Washington, D.C. for the annual Theatre Communications Group (tcg) Conference. Teen Council is one of the key programs led by the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre to make theatre accessible to teens around the Bay Area. In addition to meeting with other teen groups from across the country, the teens met with their congressional representatives, witnessed the first-ever sit-in on the Congress floor, took part in a late-night protest, attended speeches from world-class artists, and participated in discussions alongside theatre-makers from all over the world. These young artists came away with tools to transform themselves into arts advocates. Read, in their own words, what they took away from this unique experience.
To learn more about the School of Theatre’s teen programs, visit berkeleyrep.org/school.
Above Maya Simon, Genevieve Saldanha, Lucy Curran, Carmela Catoc, Fiona Deane-Grundman, and Bridey Caramagno in front of the Capitol
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