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a community arts space in Greenfield, MA

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Readers’ Theater

Script-in-hand staged readings, working with your cast or ours, in venues ranging from living rooms to professional theater stages. Our two featured projects are listed below; for a full list, click on the link above.

  • Breaking The Silence
    The Japanese American experience from immigration through redress
  • Most Dangerous Women
    Celebrating a century of women peacemakers through words and music

Curriculum Development

Arts-infused standards-based curricula developed to meet the specific needs of the client.  Two featured projects are listed below; for a full listing of projects click on the link above.

  • Densho
    Three units co-authored by Doug Selwyn
  • Northwest Heritage Resources Educational Curriculum Unit
    Unit authored by Jan Maher

Workshops for Educators

In-service programs, guest lectures, conference presentations, and classes. Each can be tailored to meet the needs of a variety of clients and to be offered in a variety of formats, from one-hour conference presentations to fully-developed college-level courses. A sampling of our workshop titles appears below; for a full listing, click on the link above.

  • Acting for Teachers
    Applying principles of performance to classroom teaching
  • All the Classroom’s a Stage
    Infusing drama methods into K-12 classrooms
  • Behind and Beyond the Headlines
    Media literacy and critical thinking
  • Creating Readers’ Theater
    Researching, compiling, and performing original theater
  • Fiction Techniques: Searching for Story
  • Following the Threads
    Bringing inquiry research into the classroom
  • From Page to Stage: Writing and Staging Literary Adaptations
  • Putting the Fun back in Functional
    Traditional games and songs that support neurological development, co-developed with Judith Bluestone, founder of HANDLE Institute
  • Inhabiting History & Literature
    Structured role playing for in-depth learning about complex issues
  • Teachers Build Characters
    Introduction to Scottish Storyline method, also known in US as Storypath
  • Town Meetings
    An interactive structure for exploring controversial issues in-depth and with respect for multiple points of view

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324 Main Street
Greenfield, MA

(btwn TD Bank & Pushkin)

Mondays: 11am-2pm
Wednesdays: 11am-2pm
Thursdays: 5-8pm
Saturdays: noon-3pm
+ special events

The LAVA Center

The LAVA Center is a community arts space, arts incubator, and black box theater in downtown Greenfield, MA. We are focused on making The LAVA Center a space where all artists, including marginalized communities and individuals, can have their voices heard.

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  • now open: LAVA Cafe
  • current art: No Somos Máquinas
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