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Lets turn that into some artistic talent, hes going to go to college to try to improve his artistic skills. Thats the kind of direction we want it to go. Question over here . What schools will you be visiting this year . We do a tour. We do two semesters so we do anywhere from 16 to 18 bookings in our School District and we do, like, Elementary Schools. So we go in and during assemblies on friday and we take, you know, its kind of a its good theater but its guerilla theater. We do this condensed...

Individual who live a positive life . Where does that begin . How will you choose . Before we come to talk to you about it, i think you need to hear this. music . Now is question and answer time. Well done. Make some noise for wild and done. applause . Anybody have questions . Any questions . What we did was i scoured basically the internet and found stories throughout the country and a lot of these stories that we weave together did come from sacramento. For example, jacob over here who was pla...

See a whole lot of schools but he has a whole other job. We used to go out and do two performances a week so we were doing 16 or 18 but its just with the manpower shortage, since 2007 our Theater Department has lost like 40 percent of what we usually do. I know that noels department, hes lost people and programs and hopefully things are going to get better. It says a lot for the program when in rough budget times, were still around. So we meet a lot of students. Success stories of kids who were ...

Were going the wrong way . As a matter of fact, the first couple semesters, where we did a break out session, where we break out with the teachers and their students and one of the actual kids said, you know, something is going on in my house, my brothers a gang banger, the house is abusive, and that breakout session, that child actually reached out to us. We were able to get dps to actually pull her out of her house so its a good venue for those kids to express that. I had a fourth grader who t...

This is real. Three of our kids are dead now. A coward would stay home and let you get shot over something stupid. Go home and lead. The rest of us got work to do. You dont have to do this. You dont have to buy this kind of trouble. You can good a little further and do the right thing. Whats that . I dont know, but it aint this. This is negative. Kids die young over this kind of stuff. Were in a war. No youre not. Its a stupid war, then. Go home, all of yall. Go home now . Hey, come back here ri...

What the whole hook is, getting out and doing the outreach to the kids. So, i mean, yes, prevention, thats the tack we took and it was a good deal because these guys, bill, this is not their main thing. The main thing is being a leader and presenting this message but at the end of our presentation to the fte, at the end of the semester when we complete something, they get a scholarship at the end. So that money goes back into the community. The kids spend it in school or out in the community so ...

Many students that we did on this outreach and hit them with the numbers it would be, like, oh, thumbs up, the school wrote us a letter, our da, our District Attorney to come see us, she wrote us a letter, so thats how you fund it. What hes mentioning is the former chancellor of the Los Rios College district, the former chancellor is now the statewide chancellor of community colleges, brad ferris who recently retired and now is the state chancellor of community colleges. He me out and saw us, su...

He has a whole other job. We used to go out and do two performances a week so we were doing 16 or 18 but its just with the manpower shortage, since 2007 our Theater Department has lost like 40 percent of what we usually do. I know that noels department, hes lost people and programs and hopefully things are going to get better. It says a lot for the program when in rough budget times, were still around. So we meet a lot of students. Success stories of kids who were going the wrong way . As a matt...

Presented it was we can sit there and hook and book, arrest them, we can do the suppression all the time, but there is no Community Outreach and thats what the whole hook is, getting out and doing the outreach to the kids. So, i mean, yes, prevention, thats the tack we took and it was a good deal because these guys, bill, this is not their main thing. The main thing is being a leader and presenting this message but at the end of our presentation to the fte, at the end of the semester when we com...

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