zAmya theater project

Family Housing Fund, zAmya Theater Project, and Hennepin County
partner on public awareness campaign for Heading Home Hennepin

Hennepin’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness to be the focus of the campaign

This spring, the Family Housing Fund, zAmya Theater Project, and Hennepin County Coordinator to End Homelessness, Cathy ten Broeke, will partner to produce a public awareness campaign for Heading Home Hennepin, the county’s ten year plan to end homelessness. The tour will feature zAmya’s road show Ten You Win / Ten You Lose and ten Broeke, who will lead a discussion of Heading Home Hennepin following each show. Supported by a grant from the Family Housing Fund, the hour-long program is being offered free of charge to the organizations, businesses and faith groups who host it.

About zAmya Theater Project
zAmya Theater Project has been creating collaborative theater with individuals from both homeless and housed communities for the past four years. Each year, they produce and tour an original road show in November during National Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Week. The 2006 road show, Ten You Win / Ten You Lose, was written by local playwright Josef Evans (creator of the 2006 Fringe Hit, Love in the Time of Rinderpest), directed by Maren Ward (Co-Artistic Director of Bedlam Theater), and developed collaboratively through script development workshops. Ten You Win / Ten You Lose is set in the year 2016. Prince is the mayor, it’s 125 degrees in the January shade, and robot newscasters are reporting that the problem of homelessness has been solved, thanks to the county’s 2006 ten-year plan to end homelessness. In interactive fashion, zAmya’s cast tells how it happened by putting pieces of their lives on stage and asking the audience to visualize a world without homelessness.

About the Family Housing Fund
The Family Housing Fund is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and produce affordable housing for families with low and moderate incomes in the seven-county metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Performance times and dates

Friday, February 29
@ 9:30 a.m. (Staff Performance)
Minneapolis Schools Art Teacher Conference
Sheridan School, 1201 University Ave NE, Mpls map

Monday, March 3
@ 7:00 p.m. (Public Performance)
Augsburg College
Homelessness Awareness Week
2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis directions

Thursday, March 27
@ 10:00 a.m. (Public Performance)
United Theological Seminary
Steckel Learning Center
3000 5th Street NW, New Brighton directions

Thursday, April 24
@ 12:30 p.m. (Public Performance)
Minneapolis City Hall
The Rotunda
350 South 5th Street, Minneapolis map

The show runs at 40 minutes.
All shows are free, with donations accepted.

Members of the media are invited to attend all shows. Digital images are available for download.

For more information:
www.zamyatheater.org

zAmya Theater Project’s mission is to increase awareness, understanding and advocacy for the homeless through community-based theater.