Fall PerformanceSundayNovember 20, 20164:30 p.m. Farrington HS Auditorium

Alliance for Drama EducationSince 1985, the Alliance For Drama Education (ADE) has continued to work with every incoming Farrington High School student, inviting the most talented and generous ones from Farrington HS, Kalakaua and Dole Middle Schools to audition for ADE’s flagship, T-Shirt Theatre of Kalihi. This low tech, high zest company of performers embodies our mission to help Hawaii’s youth rehearse for a life full of jobs, justice and joy.

ADE Board of DirectorsJacquie MalyBrad TanabeElvis GrandeTatiana Ramirez de Arellano

Jarren Amian, Pat Ching, Miguel Cadoy, Grant Ito, Louise Cayetano, Carol Nitta, Sandy Pyun, Ismael Salameh, Kathleen Shiramizu, Larry Wayman

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Over the past year and a half our TST staff has been going to school with a gifted grant writer and assessment consultant named Akiemi Glenn. Thanks to the Consuelo Foundation, we were gifted with Akiemi’s services to pilot an alternative means of gathering data for evaluating and measuring our success. Akiemi helped us realize that we are part of a small national movement called “Communities of Practice.” We wanted our students to explore this idea, but since “community of practice” (CoP) has yet to achieve broad local recognition, we decided to use the term “village” which is universally understood, hence our show title, “Takes a Village.”

In our TST village or CoP, we have customs, like any other village. We “circle up” and share one good thing before every rehearsal. The students can recite our motto like a mantra, “I am prompt, prepared, professional & please to be here.” “Pleased to be here” is an essential key for any CoP, because we all promise to “leave negativity and bad attitudes at the door,” so that we can bring our best, most compassionate self to honor our talented and generous collaborators.

Like most villages, we have evolved our own “dialect.” We speak in English but we use terms like “cheat out” and the actors know to open their bodies a quarter more to the audience so their voice and facial expressions can be heard/seen or “top his line” and the actor comes in on the end of his partner’s line before the last word evaporates. We asked the students to consider who has their back in life. Not surprisingly, families and elders are “pillars” in many homes. Sometimes back up comes from communities in school or around clubs or friendship circles. Sometimes, we discovered that “we can write a song, by listen-ing to the words that we are saying.”

Listening to what the students are saying, via reflections that are texted to us, are the centerpiece of how we gather our data for assessment. It is also how we learn from each other and move our community of practice forward into the young century.

George Kon Artistic Director

Mahalo to our “Fan Club” - donors of $100 or more!Amos Kotomori, Ann Keiko Hassler, Ann Sheridan, Catherine Payne, Charlotte Nagoshi, Chiyoko Kon and Toni Goto, Chris Andrews and Roy Helms, Cynthia Okazaki, Debbie Ziemke, Deborah and Gerry Kermode, Dennis Carroll, Duane and Sarah Preble, Eden Lee and Roger Jellinek, Ellen Fukuda, Erin Sweeney, Ernest Harada and Don Conover, Estelle Wong, Ester Dye, Fred Tanaka, Gary Hisaoka, Gary Toyama, Gayle Sugita, Grace Bell, Hester Inouye, Hideo Yoshida, Joan Lee, Julian Showkeir and Mickey Selwyn, Karen and Edwin Hosaka, Karen Masaki, Karen White, Kathleen Shiramizu, Kelvin and Jan Taketa, Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth, Larry Wayman, Lee Takagi, Leonore and Melvin Higa, Ligaya Stice, Lillian Chang, Liz Lowrey, Lloyd and Ethel Yamashige, Lola and Walter Luke, Marian and Dick Crislip, Marilyn Cristofori and Gregg Lizenbery, Marsha Gilden, Mary Hendrickson, Mary Lewis and Don Ramney, Merle Grybowsky, MJ Ahrendes and Michael Dalton, Pat Hamamoto, Patricia Ching, Paul Weissman, Peggy Anne Siegmund, Randy Ng, Randyll Warehime, Ray Okimoto, Rick and Judy Armsby, Rod and Jane Martin, Ruth Nishimura, Samsil Yun Cannon, Sandy Erlandson, Sandy Pyun, Sharon Hata, Sharon Tanaka, Sherilyn Tom, Sylvianne Yee, Weissman Family Foundation, Whitey LeBlanc, William Astman

Mahalo CastDepartment of Education: Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi, Dep. Sup. Ronn Nozoe and FHS Complex Sup. Donna Lum KagawaFarrington HS: Principal Alfredo Carganilla, SASA Kevin Fujii, Vice-Principals: Hartwell Leeloy, Daryl Ishihara, Ronald Oyama, Scott Werkmeister and Jill Yoshimoto; Webmaster Ben Duldulao, Head Custodian Elito Fernando, Heath Imamura; IMC – Mildred Tashiro and Darla Oyama.

Encouragement from: Castle Performing Arts Center, Diamond Head Theatre, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Manoa Valley Theatre, Kaimuki Performing Arts Learning Center, and Playbuilders of Hawaii.Transportation: Cindy Bui, Mac Roldan RiveraLunch Preparer Extraordinaire: Pat Ching, Deenie Musick & Carol Nitta. Special Thanks: FHS’s Journalism and Drama teacher Larry Wayman for rehearsal space.

This event is made possible with support from the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts with appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai‘i, and from The National Endowment for the Arts, Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Hawaii Arts Alliance, Susan M. Kosasa Fund and the Reverend Takie Okumura Family Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation, the George P. and Ida Tenney Castle Fund and the Hearst Foundation, Aloha United Way designated donors, the Farrington Alumni and Community Foundation, the Farrington Class of `71, Rotary Club of Honolulu – Sunrise and East Oahu, Freeman Sisters and Hawaii 5-O, MagicSpace Entertainment, Inc. the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, TeAda Productions, Sex Abuse Treatment Center and the Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation.

Special Thanks: Misty Kela`i, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Cultural and the Arts

Claire AlegreNadia Gene AmianDarian AquinoKayleen BarenoAndrew CorpuzCharl CrisotobalJoshua “Anderson” DanielsMatthew DeCostaCarl Joshua “CJ” DichosoKayly GalaponShyler Haina

Leimomi HerrellJermine KaipatLilly LemafaCherry LumabaoChristian “Ian” MartinVincent MezaManu NapoleonDaniel NguyenAukai PangelinaMorgan PerisAngela Piso April Joy Yap

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George KonPrimo AsisCastJonah MoananuJarren Amian & Jonah MoananuMarla Momi MusickMiguel CadoyDave MedeirosJarren Amian, Jayden Dela Cruz, Maricar Dela Cruz, Wyleka Nieves, Christopher Pintor, Mac Roldan Rivera, Leialoha TumbagaJarren Amian, Nadia Amian, Skyelar Brown, Christopher PintorNate CorpuzVP Natalie Mun TakataDaven MedeirosTaylon Nieto (Otay Media)

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