This is a letter of support for Monika Kimrey and the fantastic, imaginative facilitating she did with her
Ruben Salazar elementary students for Free Street's Recyclone Project. The project was a college/community ensemble co-production
that used the scenic bones of a main-stage Columbia College show to build an entirely new play exploring issues of regeneration,
revitalization, reutilization and reorganization—plus it kept a dumpster-full of lumber out of the local landfill.
Recyclone was an outdoor performance spectacle with puppets, bikes and catapults. Monika
organized the creative exchange between Free Street and Ruben Salazar students and worked with her class to embellish many of the
puppets used in the performance. Monika's and her student's contributions expanded the inter-generational dimension of the project,
and extended and deepened the experience for the college students, the high school students and the audience.
Monika and her students' work also lead to many interesting discussions of aesthetics, artistic
expression and community involvement between the Recyclone participants and the audience. It is my opinion that Recyclone
was much enriched by the exchange piloted by Monika.
If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Bryn Magnus
Special Projects Director
Free Street
Free Street Programs
6/12/05
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a letter of support for Monika Kimrey and the fantastic, imaginative facilitating she did with her Ruben Salazar elementary students for Free Street's Recyclone Project. The project was a college/community ensemble co-production that used the scenic bones of a main-stage Columbia College show to build an entirely new play exploring issues of regeneration, revitalization, reutilization and reorganization—plus it kept a dumpster-full of lumber out of the local landfill.
Recyclone was an outdoor performance spectacle with puppets, bikes and catapults. Monika organized the creative exchange between Free Street and Ruben Salazar students and worked with her class to embellish many of the puppets used in the performance. Monika's and her student's contributions expanded the inter-generational dimension of the project, and extended and deepened the experience for the college students, the high school students and the audience.
Monika and her students' work also lead to many interesting discussions of aesthetics, artistic expression and community involvement between the Recyclone participants and the audience. It is my opinion that Recyclone was much enriched by the exchange piloted by Monika.
If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Bryn Magnus
Special Projects Director
Free Street