Team Sunshine Education Fund

Since 2010, Team Sunshine has developed an approach to collective playmaking that engages deeply with what it means to live in our world today. The work we make is deeply personal, reflecting the big challenges the company’s artists wrestle with from day to day. We’ve developed an art-making practice that relies on collective-reliance, and that works to build community among the makers and then among the attending audience. This approach to art-making has been used to wrestle with project themes like masculinity, grief, climate change, hope in times of crisis, and identity.

YouthLab is an extension of the company’s work, inviting young people to explore how to move through the challenges they are facing, and to do so collectively with peers. Each YouthLab workshop invites participants to share of themselves and provides them tools to collectively explore personal and societal issues through art-making and performance. Using social-emotional learning, collaborative problem-solving, and community-building, YouthLab works to equip its participants with the skills they need to handle the challenges they are facing, to be leaders in their communities, and to work towards a better future.

Interested in sponsoring a YouthLab public school residency? YouthLab curriculum is portable and easily turned into an in-classroom 30-45 minute workshop. A donation of $300-$400 can often cover a workshop in its entirety.