TRaC FINALE Program Revealed!

The TRaC FINALE is Friday!
High 5 HQ @ 1 East 53rd Street
5:30 - 7:15

5:30 - High 5 gets a HUGE CHECK.
Literally, a big check (3 feet by 5 feet) from a foundation to support our program. We need you here to show support! Let them know they are spending their money well - keeping TRaC FREE and High 5 tix at $5. (Actually, if you could come at 5:25, that would be awesome.) As many of you as possible! Did someone say "photo op"??

5:30-6:00 - pizza, soda and D.J. Vans.
Listen to tunes, mingle, be merry. Eat. Good times.

6:00 - Showcase your work!
Bring a piece of writing you completed in TRaC this fall - or, if you like a piece you did this Summer TRaC, bring that. Or, if you have a poem you'd like to perform, bring that. It'll be like a coffee house, only with pizza. We'll all read excerpts. TRaC Instructors should bring something, too! I'm almost certain we'll see at least one of the short plays Theater TRaC have been working on. (I hope so, Theater TRaC!) Oh, and don't worry if you are shy. We won't force you to read. Not much, anyway ;)

Straight up, it's a chance to hear other Voices in the program - your peers -, to meet the other instructors (in case you're thinking of taking TRaC this spring....hmmmmm) and to check out what everyone has been doing these past 8-weeks.

6:45 - TRaC Breakdown.
Or what I'm calling, "What's your TRaC story?" Yaya and Najee, for example, got tickets for their school theater class to go and see THE OVERWHELMING. Krystal, Wayne and Ariana are organizing to bring a group of kids to theater who've never been before. Or, maybe you have taken a friend to a dive music venue they didn't know about. Maybe you saw the BANKSY graffiti art show on your own. This is the TRaC story stuff I'm talking about. We want to hear what you accomplished this semester and start thinking about what we could do for next spring.....

7:00 - TRaC certificates & Personal Accomplishment sheets.
Each of you will receive a TRaC certificate (something for the wall, or maybe just the college application portfolio) and a Personal Accomplishment sheet with individual feedback from your instructor outlining your "Strengths" and your "Toolbox for Improvement." You should be proud of the work you've done. TRaC requires a lot of time and effort, so we figured we could at least give you a certificate and some pointers on how to go forward as a writer!

And that's it!
TRaC is over and out.

But we've still got this Friday. I'll be looking spiffy to honor all of you and your work. I'm dusting off the 3-piece. Just because. Dress up if you want to. No pressure. It's all about being here, not what you're wearing anyway.... (of course, I am wearing a 3-piece suit, you know, and probably a pink tie... so... yeah....uh, class it up if you want to. ;)

See you Friday.
~eric