Throughout the year, PHT offers creative workshops and programs to enhance your class’s experience and understanding of the joy and power of the arts in expression. Through these sessions, we connect professional artist educators with young people of all ages in the classroom.

Based on the work of early years practitioner Vivian Paley, the Firefly Project provides an opportunity for the very young in our schools to communicate with each other through writing, drama and art. The project helps build a community of learners who listen to each other and learn to express themselves freely.

Beyond the literary and art-based skills offered in this program, each child is provided a safe, supportive place to show the other students who they are: it gives each child a voice in the class and a space to have that voice heard. The art of writing stories and acting them out, allows each child to listen to one another and empathize with each other’s worlds.

Presentation House Theatre (PHT) administrates the Firefly Project and, with help from ArtStarts, professional actors and visual artists facilitate it.

Approximately 90% of program costs are covered by the ArtsStarts grant, Presentation House Theatre and other wonderful business partners.

Five-to-six weeks

For more information or to apply, please contact Manami at 604.990.3473 or outreach@phtheatre.org.