Project Non-Violence

City youth write, design and perform plays about the reality of violence in their lives, its causes and some possible solutions.

Project Non-Violence is currently working on a new original musical play for presentation beginning in the summer of 2010. Last year’s show was called What Really Matters?. It was written and performed by Jasmia Goss and the teenagers of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. That play showed two days in the lives of a group of Milwaukee Public High School students.

A FREE PERFORMANCE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC was given at the MILWAUKEE YOUTH ART CENTER, 325 W. Walnut Street in Milwaukee, on WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.

FUNDS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD, THE HERZFELD FOUNDATION, SAFE AND SOUND, FIGHTING BACK, THE AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF WISCONSIN AND MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY GRANTS FROM THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD WITH FUNDS FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, AND BY THE HERZFELD FOUNDATION, THE MEYER & NORMA RAGIR FOUNDATION, THE SEDER FAMILY FOUNDATION, THE MAX FUND, ELIOT BARES, JULILLY KOHLER, THE NIA FUND, SHELDON AND MARIANNE LUBAR, THE SHEPHERD-EXPRESS NEWSPAPER, AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM PEGI TAYLOR, MICHAEL AND MARY ELLEN MERVIS, LEON TRAVANTI AND CAROLYN WHITE-TRAVANTI, DAVID FRENCH, RICHARD AND BARBARA WEISS, DAVID AND CARLA GARNHAM, CHARLES AND ELLEN SCHNEIDER, DANNI AND SHELDON GENDLEMAN, JANINE ARSENAU, MR. AND MRS. TIMOTHY FRAUTSCHI, CHARLES AND SUSAN ENGBERG, MARK ERNST, EILEEN NOCK, KAREN BOYD, CURRY FIRST, FREDERICK BROEKHUIZEN, MARY S. KAMPS, JULIE TARNEY, EILEEN JEZO, LARRY AND BEVERLY TORNER, JANE F. BRITE, ROBERT J. FRIEDMAN, JOHN KINGSLEY SHANNON AND JAN SERR.