Kids who care fort worth texas: KWC Performing Arts (Kids Who Care)

Touring Company – KWC Performing Arts

KIDS WHO CARE

TOURING COMPANY

Looking to continue your theatre education and further your performance experience? Check out The Kids Who Care Touring Company! This group of 50-55 energetic performers ranging from ages 6 to 18 take KWC’s original works on the road from September through May performing for schools, city councils and hospitals across the state. They spread the KWC message of the power of changing the world through creative expression

Directed by Founding Executive Director Deborah Jung, the Touring Company trains under talented teaching artists and experienced professionals. In addition to performing, these young artists take voice, acting, and dance classes two days a week at KWC Performing Arts, learn entrepreneurial leadership skills, and act as ambassadors of KWC.

2022-2023 Auditions

August 20, 2022

Please call the KWC office at (817) 737-5437 to schedule your monologue and vocal audition time.

• The Touring Company Auditions are comprised of three different sections – Vocal, Acting, and Dance.
• Each student participates in all 3, but does not need to excel in all. The point is to have fun and try!

Book the Kids who care touring company

Bring the show to you by booking the Kids Who Care Touring Company. Our performers a perfect for corporate meetings, team building events, school assemblies, galas, fundraisers, community events and more. Pricing is negotiated per performance and varies based on venue, size of audience, length of show, travel costs and lighting and sound system requirements. Non-profits and schools may apply for reduced fee performances if needed. For more information about booking the Touring Company call 817-737-5437 or email Tracy Cliburn.

What’s Taking Center Stage:

Look Up

Look Up is a profound and hilarious musical that examines the digital world and its effect on our lives. When going off the grid seems impossible, can we turn these new online communities into tools for positive change?

Originally performed in 2015, Look Up  is a powerful performance with themes that hold up particularly in 2022. This performance can be modified to fit any setting or time frame. For a taste of Look Up, listen to our album on Spotify or Apple Music.

Where has Kids Who Care Touring Company Performed

• Times Square in New York City
• The Texas State Capital
• The Fort Worth Club
• City Councils in Fort Worth, Trier Germany, Reggio Emilia Italy, Houston and San Antonio
• Cook Children’s Medical Center
• The Make-A-Wish Flight
• Off Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre
• 9-11 Memorial
• The Kennedy Center
• Bass Performance Hall
• Dallas Meyerson Symphony Center
• Leadership North Texas
• Fort Worth Convention Center

The Touring Company Education

From September to May, Kids Who Care Touring Company members attend weekly classes with a weekly Friday rehearsal from 4:30-6:30. Professional/degreed instructors offer skill specific classes. The Touring Company curriculum is designed specifically each semester to build the skills of the current company members.

• Vocal Performance
• Dance (ballet, tap, modern, hip-hop)
• Voice & Diction
• Classic & Contemporary Acting Studios
• Improvisation
• Audition technique
• Creative Dramatics
• Creative Movement

Touring Company performers can also participate in the Study Tour that takes place over Spring Break. This year, the Kids Who Care Touring Company will be visiting New York City.

What People are Saying

We have booked Kids Who Care for the Leadership North Texas opening retreat since the program started in 2009. These young leaders are impressive, engaging and have no trouble coaxing adults out of their comfort zones. The feedback each year is always the same: The future is a bright place with these young leaders!

Kimberly Walton
Vice President, Communications, North Texas Commission

The first time I saw Kids Who Care perform was at the Ronald McDonald House in Fort Worth. Not only was the kids’ performance beautiful and artistically impressive, but the message was so powerful. It was the first time these kids moved me to tears, but certainly not the last. It was the perfect complement to the Ronald McDonald House’s Topping Out ceremony.

Brandi Sanchez
Vice President, Customer Experience, GM Financial

Theatre Camps – KWC Performing Arts

THEATRE CAMPS

Does your kid remember all the words to their favorite Disney songs, or love to pretend play? Or are they a seasoned performer seeking some summer fun? Then our Summer Theatre Camps are for them! With room for every age and experience level, KWC Performing Arts has plenty to offer those seeking a fulfilling summer experience.

In any one of KWC’s three summer camps, kids will have the opportunity to train in various theatre techniques like vocal and stage performance, dance, writing and music composition. They will also take peek behind the curtain and train in production skills like light and set design, costuming, sound engineering and stage management. Each summer camp will end in a showcase where every student will be able to take the stage to share what they’ve worked on all summer with their family and friends.

At a KWC Performing Arts Summer Camp, lifelong friendships are made, confidence and courage are built, and dreams are acted on by each one of our students. Learn more about each of our summer camps below.

One Week Mini Camp

JUNE 6 – 11, 2022

Ages: 4 – 7
9:00am – Noon
Family Performance – June 10

This long-time favorite camp is designed specifically for our youngest kids! Your child will love each fun-filled day of creative movement, theatre games, and music. Led by teaching professionals who love working with children, Mini Camp provides tons of fun as it helps children develop physical and vocal confidence through concentration, observation, cooperation, imagination, and sensory recall.

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Performing Arts Camp

JUNE 6 – 26, 2022

Ages: 8 – 12 / 13 – 18
Full-Day & Half-Day Options

A Bridge Arts Project Collaboration

This fun camp is designed for everyone – whether it’s your first time or you’re a seasoned performer! June PAC offers high-caliber theater training, tech design, production, leadership, and performance opportunities!

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International Camp

JULY 11 – 31, 2022

Ages: 6 – 18
9:00am – 5:00pm
3 Weeks

Arts, Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Global Caring combust at this international camp to produce the next generation of creative thinkers who enrich their communities locally and around the world.

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Join the KidPower Leadership Team this Summer!

Work side by side with kids of all ages, university students, and theatre professionals. Learn how camp works by getting to serve on a department team while rehearsing a musical; sell snacks, assist at lunch, join hospitality, or be on the ticket team. By applying to be one of our KidPower Team Members you will receive our KidPower-packed training the week before Camp!

IN DALLAS – Our Texas – Russian Newspaper in Houston, Dallas, San-Antonio, Austin, Texas

• The Dallas School District has over 5,000 homeless students at the latest.
• As of January 10, Deputy Chief of Police of Fort Worth will be Deputy Chief of Police Rhonda Robertson. We remind you that Police Chief Jeff Halstead is retiring after 6 years of work. He will work for a consulting firm.
• Movie star Gwyneth Paltrow opens in Highland Park Village. Souvenirs will be sold here, as well as expensive food.
• The family of Rosy Esparza, who died on the Texas Giant rollercoaster at Six Flags Over Texas last summer, has signed a settlement agreement with the company. The details of the agreement were not disclosed. After the tragedy, the Texas Giant attraction was closed for 2 months.

The Fort Worth Public Transportation Agency plans to end the Free and Reduced Ride Homeless program. This program will stop working in a year, in October 2015.

The money that was allocated for this program will direct the construction of a streetcar line between downtown Fort Worth, Grapeville and downtown and the airport. Last year, the city spent $300,000 on the Fare Aid program.

The program has been operating in the city since 1990. Opponents of the decision believe that such measures will only increase the number of beggars on the streets of Fort Worth.

After the Transportation Board refused to ask legislators to fund the construction of 9mile of the Trinity Parkway toll road, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is trying to convince the city council of the need for this project. The mayor believes that if the project is changed, this construction will ennoble the embankment.

But opponents of the project, including City Councilman Scott Griggs, say that improving the design is like putting lipstick on a pig. Too little, too late, the board member noted: pretty pictures won’t change the essence of a worthless project.

At the same time, the Trinity Commons Foundation is raising money to change the project and believe it’s never too late to improve. According to this organization, the toll road will help solve the problem of traffic jams in this area of ​​the city.
Now 30% of the project has already been developed, and the improvement of the road by designers is the latest attempt to get the council to allocate funds for this toll artery.

Supporters of the project say the toll road will help economic development in western Dallas and the North Oak Cliff area.

103-year-old North Texas resident Myrtle Lewis is struggling to keep her home.

At age 92, she signed a reverse mortgage agreement with OneWest Bank in California.

She mistakenly let her home insurance policy expire. As soon as the landlady discovered her mistake, she renewed her insurance, but the bank tries to evict her from the house, citing the fact that the elderly lady violated the contract.

Representatives of the bank refuse to be interviewed and refer to the fact that they act according to the law. However, 103-year-old Myrtle Lewis is determined to fight for her home to the end. Her lawyer recalled that reverse insurance programs were created to ensure that the elderly had a more prosperous old age. For this, the company receives houses after their death. However, as the life expectancy of older people has increased, companies are jumping at any hook to get real estate sooner.

Statistically, 10% of old people who take out a reverse mortgage loan risk losing their property while they are alive due to unpaid taxes or insurance. The number of such cases is growing.

Outwardly, everything looked quite decent. 3 years ago Maria Panagopoulos went with her 4 year old to the Grapeville Marine Aquarium. But 28-year-old aquarium worker Randy Wesson picked up her baby without permission, and her intuition told her something was wrong.

Wesson gave the lady his business card, offered to babysit her son, said he had a lot of experience with Church Youth Ministries. However, the cautious mother, returning from the aquarium, immediately informed the administration. They contacted the police and removed Wesson from work. After 2 days, he quit, no data on his criminal past was found, and the case was closed.

More than 100 children are now known to have been victims of this pedophile. Investigators are trying to identify the faces of the victims in the thousands of pornographic films and photographs found on his computer.

Investigators are asking parents who are familiar with the name and who believe their children may have been victims of a pedophile to contact Homeland Security Investigations at 1. 866.DHS.2.ICE.

And Maria Panagopoulos, who saved her child, advises: let them look askance at you – it doesn’t matter at all. Trust your intuition.

The 6th Floor Museum, dedicated to the life and death of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, received a donation of photographic archives from two Dallas photographers.

Former Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy donated 1,200 photographs to the museum. Among them are photos of the first couple at the Dallas Love Field airport, as well as pictures of the trial of Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

Former Fort Worth Press photographer Gene Gordon donated over 400 photographs to the museum, including detailed footage of Oswald’s funeral and Kennedy’s visit to Fort Worth the morning before the assassination.

Museum spokesman Nicola Longford said the photographic archives will be described, digitized, and then displayed in a permanent exhibition.

New federal regulations created by the Next Gen Project will be implemented at North Texas airports. They will help save fuel and reduce the amount of exhaust gases. According to preliminary estimates, thanks to them, up to 4.1 million gallons of fuel per year will be saved. The amount of exhaust gases will decrease by 41,000 tons per year.

The soap opera Dallas ends. The network has canceled airings of this television series since early October, and despite hopes that the soap opera could find a new home on another channel or even on the Netflix network, Dallas main producers Cynthia Cidre and Michael M. Robin said that the 4th season there will be no filming.

Part of a high-speed rail project that will take trains from Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes is met with cold reception at public hearings.
The very idea of ​​such a road from Dallas to Houston was met with approval, however, when it came to extending the line from Dallas to Fort Worth with a stop in Arlington, this addition did not cause much excitement.

According to railroad engineers, the 35-mile section is too short for high-speed trains and impractical for the use of the so-called bullet train, which should connect 2 metropolitan areas. According to some engineers, such an express train will not have enough time to accelerate between these stops.

The very express route between Houston and Dallas is supposed to be built not with individual taxpayer subsidies, but with the use of federal funds already issued to the public transport agency DART and TRE, as well as investments from private investors.

But if private investors are willing to allocate funds for the common road, taxpayer subsidies may be required for the section between Dallas and Fort Worth.
At the same time, opponents of the project argue that the game is not worth the candle, the Texans do not need such a road, because no one will use it. In their opinion, the Texans live too disunited and far from each other for the railroads to be successful here.

At the same time, representatives of the Transportation Administration believe that the line between Dallas and Fort Worth will connect all major centers of the state: San Antonio, Austin, Houston and the metropolitan areas of northern Texas by high-speed rail.

Dallas-Fort Worth is projected to reach 10 million by 2040. About the same number will live in Houston, the population of San Antonio will reach 8 million people. And all these cities will be united into a single system by a high-speed railway.

The Dallas-Fort Worth section of the road has not yet been funded. At public hearings, only the route of such a route was discussed. The two options are either near the current railroad or parallel to I-30.

WILD WEST POETRY IN FORT WORTH – Our Texas – Russian Newspaper in Houston, Dallas, San-Antonio, Austin, Texas

In Fort Worth, considered “the most cowboy city in Texas”, everyone is completely cowboy-themed. The spirit of the old Wild West is present here literally in everything. On New Year’s Eve, for example, Santa cowboy even walks the streets, with whom children and tourists take pictures with pleasure. Cowboy culture and history is impossible without rodeo. The first outdoor rodeo in Fort Worth took place at 7 p. m.09 at Cowtown Coliseum, where entire championships are held today, which are wildly popular.

One of the highlights of the city is the famous Animal Farm, located in the Stockyards National Historic District. The area looks just like it did 100 years ago when cowboys drove herds of cattle through the place. The buildings and streets of the times of the Wild West have been completely restored here. Everything works like a century ago: saloons, hotels, farmers’ market. Here you can live in a real cowboy house and ride horses, try your luck and catch a calf on a lasso, drink a mug of beer and enjoy the spectacle when tough guys ride bulls.

Perhaps one of the most interesting sights is the reconstruction of the historical Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show, which was first shown about 90 years ago and became very profitable for its owner. Based on a true story, historical figures like Pawnee Bill himself come to life in this show. All the tricks have been preserved from the old times: lassoing and hobbled bulls, shooting and horse riding, accompanied by dashing cowboy songs.
There is also a “classic” rodeo – riding a horse (with a saddle and without a saddle) or a bull. The performers show not only their strength and dexterity, but also the grace, style and synchronism of movement with the animal.

Tie-Down Roping is a phenomenon that was born in the old West, when a person was required to be able to survive in extreme conditions of endless spaces, relying only on himself. Okay, and the horse too. Possession of the art of riding, speed, ingenuity and dexterity in catching bulls in a minimum time – this is just “poetry in motion”!

A favorite competition for people of all ages is Team Roping. The task of the team is to lasso and tie the bull with a lasso in the shortest possible time. Only close-knit groups manage to accomplish this difficult task.

Bareback riding is the hardest way to earn a living. The rider must stay in the saddle for 6 seconds, balancing on the back of the horse, holding on to the rope with only one hand. This type of riding is very traumatic, but this does not stop the daredevils at all.

These races are considered the most reckless and dangerous. After all, the best bulls and cowboys participate in them. The main thing is to hold on for at least 8 seconds. Then you get a point and the right to speak further. But unlike a rodeo on a horse, there is no need to spur anyone here … To stay on the back of an angry artiodactyl, cowboys use a flat braided rope that is tied around the bull’s chest just behind the front legs.

Staying in the saddle for eight seconds is already a feat. Well, being “overboard”, you risk being crushed. So, run at full speed, because other animals weigh more than a ton. Cowboys – both men and women who ride bulls – are high-class athletes. Riding a bull is very dangerous. One small oversight – and not to avoid serious injury. However, the Association of Professional Cowboys (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) is not asleep and is trying to create better conditions for bull riders. For example, they select more docile breeds of bulls for competitions, and they have also ensured that the bulls have their horns filed.