Play for Change is a collaboration between Little Uprisings & The Gottabees, led by Tanya Nixon-Silberg and Bonnie Duncan.
About Little Uprisings
Little Uprisings is a collaborative and liberative racial justice program for kids. They endeavor to: Build long lasting, sustainable, and deep relationships with schools and educators that result in deeply rooted change within institutions. Create programming that centers itself in joy and play - and inspires, educates, and revolutionizes our youth. Affirm our children of color, and make allies out of our white children. Partner with community spaces and existing organizations to bring racial justice work to their forefront.
Little Uprisings is founded by Tanya Nixon- Silberg, who is a black mother, artist, educator, facilitator. You’d mostly find Tanya playing and learning from her 10 year old, dreaming up new and fun ways to engage children in racial justice and radically imaging how we all get free. Tanya has worked with the MFA, Boston Public Schools, Puppet Showplace Theater, Eliot School of Applied and Fine Art, ICA/Boston, and Boston Public Library to name a few. |
About The Gottabees
The Gottabees make super fun theater for families, featuring live music, puppetry, and physical theater. They regularly sell out venues, inhabit computer screens, and inspire homemade puppet shows throughout the US, Canada, and beyond. Their work has been performed in 19 states, 5 countries, for over 43,000 people and was awarded an UNIMA- USA Citation of Excellence, the highest award in puppetry in North America. Their projects have been funded by the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America, USArtists International, Boston Cultural Council, and the Boston Foundation.
The Gottabees is headed up by Bonnie Duncan, who is a white mother of 3, passionate teaching artist and curriculum designer, maker of puppets & odd things, and a life-long performer. She has taught in schools for 20 years, integrating the arts into curriculum with joy, truth, and magic. And she really loves chocolate chip cookies. And dogs. |
Collaborators
Annika Sarin
Tess Scheflan
Tony Leva
Jay Enciso
Brendan Burns
Penney Pinette
Tess Scheflan
Tony Leva
Jay Enciso
Brendan Burns
Penney Pinette