ART EXHIBIT
Exhibit of artwork created by children with autism
Call for Artwork

Spectrum Project
Performance of the UNI Spectrum Project. The Spectrum Project is a weekend performing arts project that combines music, movement and theatre into one production created by the children in the project. Each Spectrum Project weekend is carefully designed to offer students an engaging performing arts experience in an accepting environment.

WONDERland

Production of the UNI Theatre Department
Written and produced by Gretta Berghammer, Professor of Theatre, University of Northern Iowa
Wonderland will take an imaginative and playful look at the objects, characters, nonsense and events found in Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland.  Under the direction of Gretta Berghammer, the piece will be created by an ensemble of inventive UNI actors and designers.  Designed to be sensory friendly, highly visual, and verbally simplistic, the play is intended to involve, engage and enchant audience members of all ages in the “wonder” of it all.

The Red Kite Project

A film by Kerry Shaw Brown
In this feature length documentary, award-winning filmmaker Kerry Shaw Brown spends two years following the efforts of Jacqueline Russell and Chicago Children's Theatre to create a new theatre initiative for children with austim and their families.

For more than a decade, Jacqui Russell has brought new teaching techniques to children with autism. As co-founder of the Chicago Children's Theatre, Russell's dream was to turn that knowledge and experience into multi-sensory live theatre shows specifically for children with autism. In her effort to bring it to life, she partnered with London's Oily Cart theatre which also had experience in working with children who had a variety of disabilities.

Together, they spent nearly a year developing and testing a new, immersive form of theatre, by teaming up with educators, actors, designers and doctors. But most importantly, with the children in the autism classes at Agassiz School in Chicago. The result was the first of it's kind production, which saw more than 300 children with autism, their families and caregivers experience the elusive joys of live theatre.

Description from:
http://www.theredkiteproject.org/redkitefilm.html