VT
Lauren Larken Scuderi:
Larken is a singer, educator and environmental justice activist. She is known for her creative leadership with helping people of all ages and abilities find and share their authentic voices and ideas. She owns Heart Song LLC, an aerial healing arts experience studio in Burlington, VT. http://www.365songbird.com
As one of the co-founding teaching artists of Very Merry Theatre's, Waterway Stage, she has helped to reach school classrooms and community groups over the past 8 years to share creative problem solving around water quality and pressing local environmental issues. She is currently working with 200 kids around Vermont in person towards the April 10th, Waterways Stage Festival which will be held at 20 Allen Street in Burlington VT.
Waterways Stage: combines the power of the performing arts with the joy of scientific investigation to engage students and their communities in their local watersheds. Classrooms around Vermont and along Lake Champlain in New York, collaborate with expert educators from Very Merry Theatre, ECHO, Leahy Center, and Lake Champlain Sea Grant to research and perform original plays on a pressing water quality issue.
Since 2016, Waterways Stage has collaborated with 20 schools throughout central and northern Vermont. Our culminating Festival performance of all the plays is a celebration the whole community looks forward to. We are now offering this program to classrooms with a hybrid or completely virtual option to make it fit your classroom needs. We are open to after school, home school and also host Waterways Stage Camps during school breaks.
More info here:
https://verymerrytheatre.org/waterwaysstage
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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2020
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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2020
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We received a grant through Vermont Arts Council to help Waterways Stage and Very Merry Theatre make our website accessible. We work with Inclusive Arts Vermont to continue training, learning, and implementing best practices.
Arts Service Organization
Date: 09/2022
I began working with Inclusive Arts in 2023 and have offered accessible performance and play workshops, and theatre making series.
Community and Economic Development Office (CEDO)
Government Department
Date: 05/2022
Together we are bringing creative theatre and design with aerial arts to public spaces in Burlington including The FRAME (formerly known as The Moran Plant)
Arts Council / Agency
Date: 03/2020
I became a Vermont Arts Council Teaching Artist in 2000 and completed my first virtual residency with Hunt Middle School with Waterways Stage. Waterways Stage currently receives the Partnership Grant and Building Digital Capacities Grants.
Arts Center
Date: 02/2020
Providing Theatre Education and Local Environmental Science through Waterways Stage After School Edition https://verymerrytheatre.org/waterwaysstage
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I work through Vermont Arts' Council Teaching Artist Residencies as well as Very Merry Theatre Currently the Waterways Stage program is offered for free to schools in Vermont and New YorkTeaching Settings:
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I work through Vermont Arts' Council Teaching Artist Residencies as well as Very Merry Theatre Currently the Waterways Stage program is offered for free to schools in Vermont and New YorkNEST Eligible Artist
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