Nicolas Shannon SavardApr 25, 20194 min readA Look into Performance Workshops at the Library**All participants have been given pseudonyms in the following workshop description. March 1, 2019 We had a relatively large group...
Nicolas Shannon SavardApr 23, 20191 min readWhat is Be the Street?Be the Street is a community-based performance project based in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The program was piloted in...
Nicolas Shannon SavardApr 23, 20195 min readA Place for Us: Private and Public Expressions of SelfWho is the Be the Street program for? Who are the workshops for? Who is the final performance for? Is Be the Street a public or a private...
Nicolas Shannon SavardApr 21, 20195 min readNavigating my queerness in the youth performance workshop spaceOver the past two years, Be the Street has been a place where I've navigated across a wide spectrum of how "public" I am about my queer...
Nicolas Shannon SavardApr 18, 20193 min readDevising Performance with a Community-in-FluxIn my time working with Be the Street at the Hilltop Library, I've gotten to know dozens of brilliant, generous, funny, creative, and...