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About Us
These three organizations are so excited to be hosting the DC Playwrights for Change contest!
Atlas Performing Arts Center
The Atlas’ mission is to bring people together through the arts to share and celebrate a range of artistic expressions and traditions.
The Atlas’ vision is to create a dynamic hub where artists, audiences, seniors, young people, neighbors and arts enthusiasts are actively engaging in and having meaningful conversations about art and ideas. It is the Atlas’ belief that the arts have the capacity to connect people and create understanding and respect among them and build a stronger community for all. In this way, the Atlas increases public understanding of the value of the arts in our community, enhances the civic wellbeing of all its citizens, and strengthens Washington, DC’s role as an international leader in the arts.
The Kennedy Center
"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."-President John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy's words resonate more strongly than ever for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the 21st century. The Center, which opened on September 8, 1971, continues its efforts to fulfill President Kennedy's vision by producing and presenting an unmatched variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, world, and folk music, and multi-media performances for all ages.
For more than 30 years, the John F. Kennedy Center has been deeply committed to arts education. As part of that mission, Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (KCTYA), the producing and presenting branch of the Education Department, commissions and produces new works and presents national and international performances in theater, music, dance, and puppetry for children, young people, and families. Reaching out nationally and internationally, our biennial New Visions/New Voices program helps other TYA theaters develop new scripts.
Young Playwrights' Theater
Young Playwrights’ Theater inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices. By teaching students to express themselves through the art of playwriting, YPT develops students’ language skills, and empowers them with the creativity, confidence and critical thinking skills they need to succeed in school and beyond. YPT honors its students by involving them in a high-quality artistic process where they feel simultaneously respected and challenged and by engaging professional theater artists in producing student plays for the community.
Young Playwrights’ Theater seeks to create social justice by providing all young people with the opportunity to realize the power and value of their own voices.
Atlas Performing Arts Center
The Atlas’ mission is to bring people together through the arts to share and celebrate a range of artistic expressions and traditions.
The Atlas’ vision is to create a dynamic hub where artists, audiences, seniors, young people, neighbors and arts enthusiasts are actively engaging in and having meaningful conversations about art and ideas. It is the Atlas’ belief that the arts have the capacity to connect people and create understanding and respect among them and build a stronger community for all. In this way, the Atlas increases public understanding of the value of the arts in our community, enhances the civic wellbeing of all its citizens, and strengthens Washington, DC’s role as an international leader in the arts.
The Kennedy Center
"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."-President John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy's words resonate more strongly than ever for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the 21st century. The Center, which opened on September 8, 1971, continues its efforts to fulfill President Kennedy's vision by producing and presenting an unmatched variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, world, and folk music, and multi-media performances for all ages.
For more than 30 years, the John F. Kennedy Center has been deeply committed to arts education. As part of that mission, Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (KCTYA), the producing and presenting branch of the Education Department, commissions and produces new works and presents national and international performances in theater, music, dance, and puppetry for children, young people, and families. Reaching out nationally and internationally, our biennial New Visions/New Voices program helps other TYA theaters develop new scripts.
Young Playwrights' Theater
Young Playwrights’ Theater inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices. By teaching students to express themselves through the art of playwriting, YPT develops students’ language skills, and empowers them with the creativity, confidence and critical thinking skills they need to succeed in school and beyond. YPT honors its students by involving them in a high-quality artistic process where they feel simultaneously respected and challenged and by engaging professional theater artists in producing student plays for the community.
Young Playwrights’ Theater seeks to create social justice by providing all young people with the opportunity to realize the power and value of their own voices.