Alex Theatre
Poetic Generations

Originally built as a vaudeville and silent film venue, the historic Alex Theatre has served as the heart of the City of Glendale, California since 1925. The Alex was purchased by the City and today is run as a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Part of the Alex's mission is to serve as an education resource for Glendale and area communities.

The Poetic Generations Workshop is an afterschool and weekend free poetry class that helps link a diverse group of multi-generational Glendale area residents to each other and to their unique experiences. Last year, the program served 30 youth and 15 senior citizens who worked together in a most unusual program!

Through poetry and the skills and elements necessary to write a poem, students learn to focus their energies, observations, memories and personal responses to the world. The result is that students develop their skills in English, gain self-esteem and self-awareness. Poetry gives them the space needed and enables students to capture language and to use it to speak out loud. Each student has a unique voice. When they learn to speak with this voice and to use poetry as a tool for knowledge and self-awareness, poetry becomes the gift for greater achievement.

The program culminates with a free community performance of the poems at the historic Alex Theatre and the publication of an anthology free of charge to the entire community.

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Alex Theatre is located in Glendale, CA - Los Angeles County. To find out more or to get involved with Alex Theatre, call (818) 243-2611 or email education(at)alextheatre.org

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Alex Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization - EIN # 95-4416336.

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