Students in the Kuumba Project urban arts education program will celebrate the
program's year end with a performance of the play "Cindoliesha," a rendition of
"Cinderella," on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m. in the Syracuse Stage Black Box
Theatre, 820 E. Genesee St.
The performance is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested by
Monday, June 8, to Margie Gantt in Syracuse University's
South Side Initiative
Office at 443-1916.
Developed, implemented and managed by the South Side Initiative Office, the
Kuumba Project began in September 2007 with 22 middle-school children, ages 12-
15, who receive daily instruction from professional artists in dance, studio arts,
literary arts, music and theater (music and theater were combined into a musical
theater offering in 2008).
The "Cindoliesha" performance will embody the talents of all of the students of the
Kuumba program. The musical theater students wrote the play; the studio-arts
students designed the flyer and the backdrops of the scenes; the literary arts students
prepared the spoken word; and the dance students choreographed their
performances.
