News and Events Press Room Press Releases Young Audiences Hosts SHOWCASE 2007

September 13, 2007 – Atlanta, GA – Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is proud to announce another successful SHOWCASE. SHOWCASE is an annual event presented by YAWAC which serves to provide teachers, administrators and parents with the opportunity to observe each of Young Audiences’ artists in action in order to better plan in-school arts experiences for the coming school year. SHOWCASE also includes an artist display area, which offers guests and artists the opportunity for face-to-face interaction and discussion about ways to work together to bring the arts into the lives of Georgia children. 

 

SHOWCASE 2007 was held on Wednesday, August 29^th at the Woodruff Arts Center from 8am to 1pm. This was the third year that SHOWCASE was held on the Woodruff campus. This year’s event was sponsored by Turner Broadcasting, Inc., Federated Department Stores, and Waffle House. Over 350 attendees filled the Memorial Arts Building to see artists perform and to learn about how Young Audiences can help improve and enrich the lives and learning of children. 

 

SHOWCASE 2007 started off with a bang – with a visit from Fox 5 Atlanta’s “Road Warrior”, Mark Hyman, who interviewed artists, the Executive Director, Tony Kimbrell, and Board Chairman, Christopher Marquardt on the morning show “Good Day Atlanta”.   The four-hour event featured Young Audiences’ artists from a variety of disciplines, including Kuchipudi, Modern and West African dance; classical Western, Latino, Celtic, Russian and African music; traditional, improvisational and puppet theatre; storytelling; and visual arts encompassing painting, drawing, sculpting, photography, papermaking, fabric arts and more.

 

YAWAC is proud to be celebrating its 25^th anniversary this year and SHOWCASE 2007 was the perfect way to start off the year’s festivities. Tony Kimbrell, Executive Director of Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center, said, “What an exciting day Showcase was! The Woodruff Arts Center campus was literally swarming with people who were passionate about bringing arts to children in their communities! Young Audiences was and is so pleased to offer to schools, libraries, arts councils and community centers and organizations across the state the finest professional arts experiences available.”

 

Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is a leading provider of arts-in-education programming in the Southeast. Part of the 31-chapter national Young Audiences organization, YAWAC brings the power of live arts experiences to Georgia students from pre-school to high school. From a small organization of nine artists in 1983, YAWAC has grown into a force in arts education, comprising more than 65 professional artists and ensembles that reach more than one million students each year. We fulfill our mission – to improve and enrich the lives and learning of children through high quality arts experience – by providing a dazzling and culturally diverse array of curriculum-based performances, workshops and residencies in music, dance, theatre, literary and visual arts. For more information, please visit www.yawac.org.

 

The Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts centers in the Southeast as well as one of the four largest in the nation. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines five visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization. Opening in 1968, the Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14^th Street Playhouse.