With support from the California Arts Council, WALKING ELEPHANT THEATRE COMPANY will offer a summer program to children at Village Elementary School in Santa Rosa, California. The program is a two-week theatre intensive that gives students the opportunity to create and perform an original theatre piece. Participants conduct interviews of their community to create and perform an original production. They choose moments that make them laugh, cry, cheer, and see the world in a whole new light.
Walking Elephant Theatre Company creates innovative live documentary pieces for social and ecological justice. The original productions are created from conversations and interviews between youth and their community. They walk a mile in the shoes of their neighbors and then create original documentary plays about the elephant in the room. We believe that hearing each other’s stories awakens our compassion. Each production is unique, and through connecting, creating, awakening and healing, the overall goal of Walking Elephant is to help our culture shift from the paradigm of isolation, extraction, scarcity, and violence, to the paradigm of connection, regeneration, abundance, and peace.
As a nomadic theatre company, we go to where the stories are needed to be told and heard. Going from backyards, homeless shelters, schools, and cafes, to established world renowned venues, our theatre company moves with the need.
