White Oak Middle School drama program helps African immigrants find their voice

African immigrant students are writing a play based on their experiences, and learning English and self-confidence at the same time. They will use drama, poetry and dance and perform for friends and family at the end of the school year. - - Donna Poisl

By Jeanette Der Bedrosian, The Gazette

As a group of young African immigrants struggles to adapt to life in the United States, an after-school drama program at White Oak Middle School in Silver Spring strives to make their lives easier by first making them a little harder.

Project X is a program that uses drama, dance, poetry and other creative outlets to help students discuss the tough and sometimes painful problems they face as preteen immigrants with significant language barriers, instructors said. A final unveiling of their creation will be performed for friends, family and donors at the end of the year at Imagination Stage, a nonprofit children's theater in Bethesda.
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