LEAN UNBOUND
A Lean Ensemble Community Initiative
With the Lean Unbound Initiative, Lean cultivates a community of learners of all ages, abilities, and artistic interests to explore the breadth of what innovative storytelling can be.
Through a variety of engaging offerings, including workshops, field-trips, discussion groups, year-long courses, and panel discussions, we invite participants to actively collaborate with other creative minds, while individually investigating the questions:
What stories do I want to tell? How can I tell them?
What role can I play in bringing them to life?
Learn more about our Unbound Programs below and how you can support them.
UNBOUND PROGRAMS
ABILITIES UNBOUND
Theater for Adults with Disabilities
In partnership with Pockets Full of Sunshine, this year-long theater intensive provides adults with disabilities the opportunity to unearth their artistic expression through performance, and share their work in a final showcase at the end of the program.
GROWTH UNBOUND
Workshops Across Disciplines
Led by visiting artists-in-residency and local creative professionals, these one-time workshops allow eager participants to step outside their creative comfort zones, experimenting with art forms including stage combat, classical singing, acting for the camera, verbatim theatre, and more.
CONVERSATION UNBOUND
Page-to-Stage Discussion Groups
This play analysis group invites passionate theatre-goers from Lifelong Learning of Hilton Head to gain a more panoramic perspective of the stories they see on Lean’s stage, investigating essential themes of the script as well as the artistic choices of our production’s creative team.
“THE BARD” UNBOUND
Shakespeare Accessible to Students
In partnership with The Warehouse Theater of Greenville, Beaufort County students and adults with disabilities have the unique experience to see a modernized adaption of a Shakespearean play and participate in experiential workshops, infusing “the classics” with excitement and relatability.
PERSPECTIVE UNBOUND
Thought-Provoking Panel Discussions
To deepen the conversations around the shows in our theater season, these riveting discussion panels — comprised of artistic innovators and community leaders — ignite a thoughtful dialogue on the cultural, historical, and communal importance of narratives about the human condition.
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 15 & 21, 2024: Abilities Unbound: Introduction to Performance Workshop
Theater Workshop for Adults with Disabilities Available for members of Pockets Full of Sunshine.
To learn more, please email whitaker@leanensemble.org .
October 2024: “The Bard” Unbound: Hamlet
Shakespeare Field Trip & Workshops
Available for Beaufort County high school students and organizations for adults with disabilities.
To register or learn more, please email whitaker@leanensemble.org.
October & November, 2024: Conversation Unbound: What the Constitution Means to Me
Page-to-Stage Discussion Group Available for members of Lifelong Learning of Hilton Head Island.
To register, visit lifelonglearninghhi.org or email whitaker@leanensemble.org .
November 2, 2024 • 10:00AM: Perspective Unbound: A Discussion with Heidi Schreck
Panel Discussion with Award-Winning Playwright Free Admission.
To reserve your seat in the HHPS Main Street Theatre, visit our Tickets page to be re-directed to our ticketing site.
CONTRIBUTE
It is because of the generous and invaluable support from our patrons that Lean has been able to provide meaningful arts education to our local community since 2015. Because our community and arts engagement programs are solely funded through individual contributions and local grants, we can not do it without you.
If you would like to financially support our Unbound Community, please visit our Contribute page for more information.
If there is a particular Unbound Initiative that you feel inspired by, you can choose to sponsor a specific program and in return receive recognition as an Unbound Ambassador.
JOIN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY!
Want to join one of these initiatives? Have a special skill you want to share with your community?
Contact Director of Community and Arts Engagement Whitaker Gannon (whitaker@leanensemble.org) to learn more about how to become an Unbound participant and/or instructor.