PROGRAM & PURPOSE
Sharing the Stage is a performance and mentorship project, where kids who are seeking skills and a validation of their interests work with professionals who have traveled the same path themselves.
At a Sharing the Stage show, students are the opening acts for a professional headlining band in a club venue, and students perform–as soloists or in bands–their own original songs. Those songs are the result of collaboration and feedback shared with peers and mentors in rehearsals. This creative experience requires vulnerability, results in joy and pride, and builds trust and meaningful connections. Mentors and kids alike develop a sustaining connection to Sharing the Stage.
MISSION
The mission of Sharing the Stage is to develop an intergenerational culture and musical community whose activities and relationships help kids build a positive self-image and sense of possibility as they discover who they want to be.
Sharing the Stage is a performance and mentorship project, where kids who are seeking skills and a validation of their interests work with professionals who have traveled the same path themselves.
At a Sharing the Stage show, students are the opening acts for a professional headlining band in a club venue, and students perform–as soloists or in bands–their own original songs. Those songs are the result of collaboration and feedback shared with peers and mentors in rehearsals. This creative experience requires vulnerability, results in joy and pride, and builds trust and meaningful connections. Mentors and kids alike develop a sustaining connection to Sharing the Stage.
MISSION
The mission of Sharing the Stage is to develop an intergenerational culture and musical community whose activities and relationships help kids build a positive self-image and sense of possibility as they discover who they want to be.
