{"id":25367,"date":"2015-04-24T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25367"},"modified":"2015-04-24T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:17:18","slug":"tchs-khs-students-challenged-to-find-equality-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25367","title":{"rendered":"TCHS & KHS students challenged to find equality now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Provoking performance asks ‘What do YOU see?’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Kim Chiomento,<\/span><\/strong> News Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A vignette featuring Rosa Parks’ refusal to relinquish her bus seat<\/p><\/div>\n

KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Students from the Technical College High School (TCHS) and Kennett High School (KHS) experienced Walnut Street Theater\u2019s Martin and Malcom – How Long Must We Wait?<\/em>\u00a0a moving, thought provoking production that explores the history of, and influences upon, race relations.<\/p>\n

The show is one several Walnut Street Theatre\u2019s Touring Outreach Company\u2019s productions. Actors performed powerful vignettes from pivotal moments in US history including Rosa Parks refusing to relinquish her bus seat, Trayvon Martin shooting, Malcom X speeches, to the moments of how students really see each other every day.<\/p>\n

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Students take time to discuss the show and a career in the performing arts with\u00a0one of the actors.<\/p><\/div>\n

A pervasive theme was where does the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King stand today, and why are we not seeing each other equally? Actors challenged the audience to \u201cTake a look at me\u2026what do you really see?\u201d while cautioning, \u201cBe sure what you see does not make you foolish when you find out the truth about what makes me who I am.\u201d
\nStudents were captivated as they were presented with difficult, and at times, uncomfortable scenarios regarding stereotyping, affirmative action\u2019s merits and challenges, the role of the Confederate Flag as both a historical symbol and one of black repression, to how a classmate\u2019s appearance may set someone up for complete misunderstanding and hurtful stereotyping.
\nMartin and Malcom<\/em> also shed light upon the various influences shaping peoples\u2019 perspectives on events; and, those influences were portrayed as equally as important as the events themselves.<\/p>\n

The performance was coordinated and hosted by KHS\u2019 Assistant Principal, Dr. Tomorrow Jenkins. The Kennett Consolidated School District takes pride in the diversity represented within its student body; and Dr. Jenkins remarked, \u201cI am delighted that today\u2019s show captured not only what we are teaching in KHS curriculum, but also what we are experiencing in the news. It is very relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin and Malcom concluded with a student body enthusiastically cheering the performance.<\/p>\n

Following the show, KHS senior, Marisa Maxwell, shared with The Times<\/em> \u201cI think this show made everyone step back and think; it was GREAT. From what I could see, I think everyone really liked it and my friends had really positive things to say about this powerful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"martin-malcolmlogo\"<\/a>For more information on the Walnut Street Theater\u2019s Outreach Company visit: www.walnutstreettheatre.org\/education\/touring-season-14-15.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Provoking performance asks ‘What do YOU see?’ By Kim Chiomento, News Editor, The Times KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Students from the Technical College High School (TCHS) and Kennett High School (KHS) experienced Walnut Street Theater\u2019s Martin and Malcom – How Long Must We Wait?\u00a0a moving, thought provoking production that explores the history of, and influences upon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[7027,789,7028,6865,7029],"class_list":["post-25367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-dr-tomorrow-jenkins","tag-kennett-high-school","tag-martin-and-malcom-how-long-must-we-wait","tag-technical-county-high-school","tag-walnut-street-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}