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Education History
January, 2006: Q-Quest Youth Fest
The youth created and performed a show entitled, No More Whispers, which was facilitated and directed by Jeffry Lusiak and Jason Bucklin.
No More Whispers spoke to the joys and hardships of identifying as Queer youth today and was performed at
Q-Quest Youth Fest, Minnesota's first Queer youth conference. OSTC served as a part of the planning committee from the outset.
120 youth were in attendance at the conference.
February, 2006:
District 202's youth and staff elect Jeffry Lusiak and Jason Bucklin to be their Volunteer Youth Theatre Coordinators.
April, 2006: Collaborations
OSTC and MN-TAP worked together to create an educational theatre piece discussing Comprehensive Sex Education
and was performed at a Community forum on April 19th at Neighborhood House in St. Paul. The piece was created and performed by 6 members of
MN-TAP and directed by Jeffry Lusiak.
Empowered Expressions honored The Day of Silence/Night of Noise at Intermedia Arts, on Wednesday, April 26,
in collaboration with SASE and MSOC. The evening included a performance was created by the youth and facilitated by Jason Bucklin along
with writing and personal testimonials from the audience.
June, 2006: PRIDE
Empowered Expressions performed in Queertopia along with other Queer Artists to celebrate Queer Love.
Empowered Expressions performed at a PRIDE event sponsored by Steven's Square Center For the Arts.
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Our Mission
Outward Spiral Theatre Company is dedicated to producing theatre from a Queer point-of-view. We strive to entertain, educate and act as a catalyst for social change through inclusive, multi-cultural, provocative artistic expression.
Empowered Expressions
Empowered Expressions is a group of youth from the GLBTQQIA community, who tell their stories in their own words through performance art, in hopes of changing the quality of their everyday environment.
Outward Spiral has joined up the youth and staff of District 202 to create a theatre program that works to strengthen the Queer Youth Voice through the theatre arts.
This youth-run theatre troupe aims to build skills in: collaboration, communication, self-confidence, and self-expression through weekly theatre workshops, and the creation
of theatrical pieces that are performed for the community.
The troupe meets every Sunday at
District 202
from 4:00 -7:00 p.m.
The group is open to all Queer youth.
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Upcoming Events
Drag Workshops
Transgender Remembrance Day
Homo For The Holidays
Q-Quest Youth Fest
Check back soon, for more information!
 
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