Civic infrastructure for imagination, creativity, possibility, and collaboration.

More humans with muscles for bringing new ideas to life through a group project with an audience? Ways of exploring and seeing patterns with a lens that doesn’t feel like defeat? Containers for building generative relationships and a shared group language for how to get things done? Yes, please.

After two decades during which my day-to-day job involved being unable to ignore the inner workings of the St. Louis metro area, a lightbulb (survival tactic?) switched on: the unique intervention I have to offer is through the framework of creating and mounting a musical. We are starting with a High School program called Show St. Louis.