The Fly Arts Center launched a new Youth Arts Program in September 2024 with our Youth Program Director Mary Margaret Edwards. 

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We're starting off the program with two theatre groups designed to get creative kids immersed in the performing arts with opportunities to learn and grow.

"Metamorphosis" is an educational theatre group that focuses on teaching kids ages 5-12 the basics of putting together a production both on the stage and behind the scenes. Like a caterpillar creating a cocoon in order to grow and transition, this program will provide kids with the skills and inspiration they will need to grow in a community theatre setting.  

Once kids become teens and begin to grow out of their "cocoons",  they need an age appropriate place they continue learning. The "Emerge" group is designed to help participants ages 13-18 fine tune and further develop a variety of acting and production skills in all points of the theatre.

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A design contest was held in which area kids and teens were asked to use their creative talents to develop logos for each of the the two theatre youth groups. Art by 16-year-old Alia Downing was chosen for the logo of the "Emerge" group. While, art from 8-year-old Ellie Newman was chosen for the "Metamorphosis" group.

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In the near future, The Fly Arts Center will expand the Youth Program into more branches of the arts and is in the processing of putting together an Youth Advisory Committee made up of creative kids and teens from our local area.