Sponsorships
The Kessler Keener Foundation has and continues to sponsor MAPP and Upward Bound Trio with their time, treasure, and talent.
More about the Mentor Artists Playwrights Project (MAPP):
A group of young people, each paired with a mentor actor or writer, participate in a progressive series of intensive playwriting workshops. With a core emphasis on the importance of the young person’s dreams and aspirations, Kellogg’s method introduces fundamental playwriting tools that explore the use of metaphor, the creation of characters through sensory and emotional work, monologue, dramatic storytelling, and theme. The young people are taught to examine the dynamics of conflict, and write plays where crisis, urgency, and possible consequences are explored. The process culminates in public staged presentations of the young writers’ original plays read by professional actors.
The Kessler Keener Foundation contributes to MAPP by providing funding, gathering mentors and professional actors.
This is a federally funded program that prepares first generation students for possible college or vocational education through various enrichment courses, intensive mentoring and academic support. By coming to the Boise State University campus for six weeks during the summer students are given an experience of living on campus and living together in a supportive community.
The Kessler Keener Foundation contributes to TRIO Upward Bound by sponsoring the Mentor Artists Playwrights Program.
