Sticks & Stones: An Anti-Bullying Program Crockett, TX—Sticks & Stones is an anti-bullying program that will be at the Crockett Civic Center on Nov. 5th. This show is presented by Piney Woods Fine Arts Association as part of its Arts-in-Education programs. There will be two performances that are open to all schools in Houston County and the surrounding areas. Schools must register in advance to guarantee seats are reserved for their students. Admission is only $4 per student. Registration forms are available on the Piney Woods Fine Arts website at pwfaa.org or teachers can call the PWFAA office at (936) 544-4276 for more info. Lyle Cogen is an award-winning singer-songwriter, recording artist, and theatre performer. She has performed her songs and theatre productions throughout the U.S. for children, parents and teachers at theaters and schools, bringing her energy, high spirits and uplifting message to young audiences everywhere. More recently, Sticks & Stones, Lyle’s acclaimed musical play about bullying, has launched her into the front lines of national efforts to curtail bullying and cyber-bullying. The one-woman show has been featured in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, CBS-TV and many other media. The play was commissioned by Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2008, Lyle used all of her teaching, singing, acting and writing skills to create Sticks & Stones. “As a parent and in my work in schools,” Lyle says, “I saw the effects of bullying firsthand. There’s no better way to bring this subject out in the open than by sharing the experience of theater. Through music and theater we create an environment in which we can have these discussions.” In the play she uses theater to teach children how to recognize different kinds of bullying behavior, allowing them to discover their own behaviors in the various characters depicted - whether “bully, bullied or bystander.” It also teaches that, when they see bullying taking place, there is an alternative to being a passive bystander, namely “speaking up” and becoming an ally. Lyle has performed the musical all over the U.S., as well as creating special interactive productions for schools age-appropriate for children from kindergarten through grade 12. “It deals with the kinds of bullying you can see, and the kinds you can’t see,” Ms. Cogen said. In the real world, she said, bullying takes many forms. The other students “won’t hang out with you, they won’t call you or let you be part of the group and sit with them in the lunchroom,” she said. “And you know they’re talking about you — you just know.” Ms. Cogen’s experience with bullying comes not only from being an educator and a parent — she and her husband, Jerry, have a daughter, Mallory, 22, and a son, Zachary, 19 — but also from her own childhood. “I was always picked on — I was the shortest one in the class,” she said. PWFAA offers these School-Time Series events as part of its continuing mission to provide the best in quality educational programs for all the schoolchildren in Houston County. Parents are encouraged to make sure their child’s teachers are aware of this opportunity. For more information or to register for this show, please go to pwfaa.org or call (936) 545-4276.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:58:56 +0000
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