Broadcast date: 7/2/2015
How can Homer’s Odyssey help incarcerated youth? The Odyssey Project is a collaborative theater process. It takes youth from a juvenile detention facility in Santa Barbara County and pairs them with undergraduate students from UC Santa Barbara.
Together participants gather on the University campus to explore the mythic elements in their lives in order to reconstruct the epic poem in their own voices. The project is designed to honor youth in identifying their heroic life mission and map a course of action. It employs theater arts as a strategy for inspiring life affirming choices. The culmination of the journey is a public performance at a local theater.
Join host Fred Munroe as he speaks with Professor Michael Morgan with the Department of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara and Director with the Odyssey Project, Raven Skye, Community Coordinator, and youth participating in the Odyssey Project as they discuss this creative journey and how everyone can learn to become a hero or heroine in their own story.
Central Coast Voices is sponsored by ACTION for Healthy Communities in collaboration with KCBX and made possible through underwriting by Joan Gellert-Sargen.
