Introducing children and teens to 12th-18th century music, dance, theater, and related arts since 2005, Seattle Historical Arts for Kids presents a wide variety of performing and non-performing historical arts workshops and performance programs that bring young people together with professionals in our field. Participants discover themselves as ambassadors for the beauty of old traditions, gaining performing-arts skills, a sense of community, an insider’s experience of past eras, and the chance to inspire a multigenerational audience. We appreciate the arts of the European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras for the sake of the nourishment that pre-industrial, handmade craft and beauty bring to our abstracted and digitized age. We celebrate the creative potential in revisiting the moral limitations of these eras with the understanding of a modern multicultural world. We are committed to bringing to life underrepresented voices from these periods. We cultivate deep collaborations between skilled professionals and young people of any background, in the belief that touching history helps kids and teens imagine and create a more meaningful future.
