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Creating Connections through Class Divide

The Hopkins Center for the Arts presents Class Divide, a three-year, cross-campus/community programming initiative featuring a thought-provoking series of events, performances and residencies to raise awareness and spark discussion about Class Divide in our Upper Valley communities.

Class Divide offers a transformational framework for artists, students, faculty and community members to engage with this timely and important topic, bringing viewers into the minds and hearts of people they've never met and creating connections within Upper Valley communities.

The 2007-08 season features theatrical performances by Rik Reppe and Anne Galjour, engaging musical evenings with Old School Freight Train and Carolina Chocolate Drops and the World Music Percussion Ensemble, and a multi-media performance by William Yang.

Class Divide grounds these issues in Dartmouth's Upper Valley community through a Community Advisory Board, residencies in two local high schools, and a commissioned work by playwright Anne Galjour. The Hopkins Center's Class Divide Employee Task Force reviews the accessibility of Hopkins Center programs and facilities, and helps guide policy development to increase access on all levels.

Class Divide is the first substantial cross-campus/community project in the country to examine the issue of class through the arts, and is made possible with funding from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Program.

This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.